{"id":378,"date":"2005-08-22T09:18:01","date_gmt":"2005-08-22T14:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=378"},"modified":"2005-08-23T12:51:22","modified_gmt":"2005-08-23T17:51:22","slug":"klingons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=378","title":{"rendered":"Klingons."},"content":{"rendered":"

Perhaps this has been obvious to everyone except me for the longest time, but after reading a list over at McSweeney’s<\/a> I had a revelation. Although I’ve never much cared for the original Star Trek series — or any Trek for that matter — I was always aware of its barely clothed subtext regarding racial harmony and peace among the people of Earth.<\/p>\n

Something that never clicked in my mind though was the purpose of the Klingons. Now, suddenly, I get it. The Klingons are animalistic and brutal-seeming in their glorification of battle, to the exclusion of most other personality traits. Duh, Chris. They are the id, the bestial nature of humanity’s war-like tendencies personified in a race against whom we constantly struggle. We must fight against our own ferocious natures to progress “where no man has gone before.”<\/p>\n

And all this time I thought they were humanoid to save on costuming. I don’t watch enough of any Trek show to see similar man-vs.-himself struggles in the canon, though I do see a sort of opposite struggle going on in the Vulcan attitude toward logic.<\/p>\n

I won’t mentally disagree next time I hear someone say that Gene Roddenberry was a genius.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Perhaps this has been obvious to everyone except me for the longest time, but after reading a list over at McSweeney’s I had a revelation. 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