As a young mother, dealing with the demands of a toddler and
an infant while their father worked full-time and also went to college, I found
so much comfort and pleasure in the stories of the original Star Trek
series. When I had to defend my appreciation
for these stories, I simply found the words:
“They explore the human condition.”
Many people looked at the strange aliens and the strange alien
environments and the strange alien situations, and did not realize that there
were many metaphors for the way that we as humans interact with each
other. Everything was explored in those
stories, from religion to lifestyles to gender attitudes, but that exploration
was done in a way that taught, for those who would learn. And one of the most interesting aspects of
all the explorations, for me, was Spock’s logic, particularly as he was
half-Vulcan and half-human, and therefore had the dubious pleasure of having
human emotions and Vulcan requirement for logic. And over and over, it seemed to me that
human emotions were shown to be both blessing and curse and that pure logic was
shown to be blessing and curse as well.
As Mr. Spock said many times, “Fascinating.”
And here is something that Leonard Nimoy, the wonderful human
who gave Mr. Spock a type of reality, said:
“A life is like a garden. Perfect
moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory.”
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