Star Trek values

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The TV series Star Trek ran from 1966-1969. As a network TV show devoid of explicit Christian values, examples from the show can be used to bring out Biblical values or to divert or distract people from those values.

Here Biblical connections are made to aspects of the TV show Star Trek.

The exact phrase "Beam me up, Scotty" never appeared in Star Trek.
The part on intelligent life was added later and never appeared in Star Trek.

BIBLE (Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth).
In Matthew 7, Jesus uses the ancient Greek word "δοκόν" ≈ "beam" as a play on words with "δοκοῦν" ≈ "opinion, expectation" in the "beam" (as expectation) and "mote" where "κάρφος" ≈ "twig, splinter, mote" and "καρπός" ≈ "fruit".

Could this be related to "Beam me up, Scotty. There's no intelligent life here"?

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Matthew 5:25 Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison. [kjv]

The ancient Greek word "συμφωνία" ≈ "agreement" and comes from the words for "same voice". The English word "symphony" cames from a group of people with the "same voice".

The ancient Greek word "φωνή" ≈ "voice, sound" comes from the ancient Greek word "φως" ≈ "light" and the ancient Greek word "νους" ≈ "mind". That is, a "sound" or "voice" is "light" into the "mind".

This is not the Greek word translated as "agree" in Matthew 5:25.

The Latin word "consentio" ≈ "consent, agree" and is the source of the English word "consent".

More: Matthew 5:25-26 Adversarial agreement

Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds; to seek out new life and new civilizations; to boldly go where no man has gone before! Original Star Trek TV series (1966-1969)
Who was "beamed" down to "earth" and lived among us and let us know the "way" to be "beamed up"?

John 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. [kjv]

και ο λογος σαρξ εγενετο και εσκηνωσεν εν ημιν και εθεασαμεθα την δοξαν αυτου δοξαν ως μονογενους παρα πατρος πληρης χαριτος και αληθειας [gnt]

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Star Trek sounds good. Is that right?

Sound does not travel in a vacuum. Thus, explosions through space would not be heard.

John 1:14

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KJV: And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

Greek: και ο λογος σαρξ εγενετο και εσκηνωσεν εν ημιν και εθεασαμεθα την δοξαν αυτου δοξαν ως μονογενους παρα πατρος πληρης χαριτος και αληθειας

Matthew 10:30 But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. [kjv]

υμων δε και αι τριχες της κεφαλης πασαι ηριθμημεναι εισιν [gnt]

Who is your "head"?

Who are the hairs?

What does it mean to be "numbered"?

My wife told me that she made an appointment to get her hair cut on-line.

I asked her how they were going to cut her hair on-line? I got the brush-off, even though I have almost no hair.

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Comments?

Before you knit pick, that's a woolly good joke! Shear delight! Ewe sweater agree? I'm not trying to ram it down your throat. Groups who like sheep jokes suffer from a herd mentality. They heard it somewhere and it becomes a stampede as they run their mouth instead of exercising restraint.

Is this a spineless joke?

The "tachyon" as a mythical particle was introduced into science fiction in 1970 by James Blish's Star Trek novel "Spock must die!".

The idea is often used in science fiction writing when faster-than-light communication or transportation is needed.

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Genesis 3:18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; [kjv]

ακανθας και τριβολους ανατελει σοι και φαγη τον χορτον του αγρου [lxx]

The ancient Greek word "τρίβολος" ≈ "prickly plant" as in a plant with "thistles" on it. The word appears to literally mean "three arrows" where ancient Greek often uses the prefix of "three" to mean "a lot of". The Latin word "tribulos" ≈ "thistle".
I have wondered since the 1980's (when I started to learn Greek) if the Star Trek episode involving "Trouble with tribbles" based the word "tribble" on the Greek "τρίβολος" ≈ "prickly plant" for "thistle" since a tribble in that episode looks somewhat like a "thistle".

As for a better explanation, "thistle" have to do!

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