Every Christian Star Trek fan recalls Stardate 4041.7. That was the day that I realised that, with very few exceptions, Star Trek is consistently the most pro-Christian and pro-Catholic show in American television history.<\/p>\n
The quintessential science fiction television programme by which all others are judged has had a number of permutations over the past 40 years: The Original Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space 9, Voyager and, most recently, Enterprise. In addition, there have been 10 films that have sent the heroic Enterprise into space to \u201cexplore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilisations, to boldly go where no man has gone before\u201d. Gene Roddenberry\u2019s creation has become a cornerstone of popular culture and has helped to popularise and develop the science fiction genre.<\/p>\n
In \u201cBread and Circuses\u201d, the episode that took place in Stardate 4041.7 (AD 2268 for planet-bound humans), Captain James Tiberius Kirk, valiant captain of the good ship Enterprise, in the midst of their five-year mission, came across planet 892-IV, a draconian 20th-century version of the Roman Empire, complete with gladiators, senators and nefarious politics. The empire sponsors state executions of renegade slaves who practice a pacifistic religion of \u201ctotal love and total brotherhood\u201d. Sound familiar?<\/p>\n
The twist is that the slaves imprisoned for practising the religion of their choice are sun worshippers. As Mr Spock, the ship\u2019s Science Officer and Captain Kirk\u2019s logical foil, points out: \u201cIt seems illogical for a sun worshipper to develop a philosophy of total brotherhood. Sun worship is usually a primitive, superstitious religion.\u201d<\/p>\n
And then the fateful and faith-filled moment memorialised in the hearts of all Christian Trekkers, Lt Uhura pipes up from her communications console to correct her superior officers: \u201cI\u2019m afraid you have it all wrong, all of you,\u201d she says. \u201cI\u2019ve been monitoring some of their old-style radio waves, the empire spokesman trying to ridicule their religion, but he couldn\u2019t. Well, don\u2019t you understand? It\u2019s not the sun up in the sky. It\u2019s the Son of God.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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