XPost: alt.startrek, alt.tv.star-trek, alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise
From: navamske@myway.com
On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 12:28:43 -0000, "Paul Brown"
had this to say:
>
>"ASDR" wrote in message
>news:XLjXb.308649$xy6.1503869@attbi_s02...
>> LOL! "Ferengi Popes". Sounds like a great name for an industrial techno
>> band!
>
>He was obviously referring to the way the Bajoran religion was organised,
>but got a bit confused referring to *Ferengi* Popes. There were no Bajoran
>Nuns, but there were Bajoran Cardinals and Popes.
No I wasn't. Call me a reductionist if you want -- hell, it's only
fiction -- but I saw the Bajoran religious women as nuns and the Grand
Negus as the Ferengi Pope.
> It seems to me that Bajor
>was based on Poland after the Soviet occupation ended. In both Poland and on
>Bajor almost everyone was of the same religion, their religion was very
>important during the occupation and helped unite them against the occupiers.
>The office of Kai is obviously based on the office of Pope, while the Vedeks
>are obviously equivalent to Cardinals. I don't remember a lower rank than
>Vedek, though. Some or all of the Vedeks are members of an electoral
>college, like the College of Cardinals, who elect a new Kai when needed. Kai
>Winn was obviously corrupt right from the beginning, like the Borgias, a
>family which included at least one Pope. One big difference is that the
>Bajorans have a caste system like under Hinduism, but this is no longer
>enforced. Another difference is that Vedeks and Kais can have relationships
>and sex, but that was also the case in the Catholic Church until about the
>12th Century.
>
>>
>> "Eric Newman" wrote in message
>> news:oq8r20hv7p23kc5pi12e7if4k7qdr9aune@4ax.com...
>> > On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 20:46:15 -0600, The Merry Piper
>> > had this to say:
>> >
>> > >On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 09:51:20 +1100, ®Matthew-The Resurrected©
>> > > wrote:
>> > >
>> > >>If all the little geeks stop their crying the show will last.
>> > >>It's far better than the Next Retardation and Deep Sleep Nine.
>> > >
>> > >I was a lukewarm fan of TNG but I thought DS9 was a fine show.
>> >
>> > I thought DS9 was dreary. Klingon politics, Bajoran nuns, Ferengi
>> > popes... not interesting.
>>
>>
>
>I think people should have faith and stop saying that Star Trek: Enterprise
>will be cancelled in the near future. TOS was usually in trouble and look
>what happened to that! I'd like to point out to Paramount Pictures, UPN and
>anyone with influence who may be reading this that like TOS and ST:TNG, Star
>Trek: Enterprise will flourish at some time in the future, then new viewers
>will be interested in watching the earlier episodes, so your investment will
>pay off. It doesn't really matter what day of the week it's on, or what
>people are doing on that day of the week, because of DVD recorders or even
>VHS VCR's. On Sky Digital in Britain it's shown on Mondays at 8PM, then
>repeated on Sundays at 9PM. On Channel 4 it's shown on Sundays at 4:40PM and
>repeated on Wednesday mornings at 1:55AM, but this is Season 2 for people
>who can't be bothered to subscribe to Sky Digital, because they "don't watch
>much TV". It's not currently showing on Germany's SAT.1, but I think Friday
>evenings at 7:15PM has been a traditional new Star Trek slot for them.
>
>I think Star Trek: Enterprise season 3 is getting more like a serial or a
>soap. Every episode has something to do with the Xindi, and clips from
>various recent episodes have been shown at the beginning of at least one of
>the episodes. This is a similar technique to the doomed British soap
>"Brookside" which finished a 21 year run in November 2003, but they only
>started doing that after the decision to cancel was made. If they'd made
>some of the changes *before* being cancelled, then it may still be running.
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