Gahh that episode was boring as hell, like most of the Voyagers...
And I also am miffed with Star Trek having religion and religious references. Wasn't it Roddenberry's original vision to have no religion in ST (Q was after all, just an extremely powerful alien)? Then we get the pathetic bloody 'prophet' sub-story in DS9, and repeated and consistently shite afterlife stories in Voyager...Clear really how things started going bad with DS9 I guess
Yeah, I've always taken the subtext of the Birther movement to be, "The rules don't count here! This is different! HE'S BLACK! BLACK, I SAY! ARE YOU ALL BLIND!?
- Raw Shark
Destiny and fate are for those too weak to forge their own futures. Where we are 'supposed' to be is irrelevent.
In fairness to DS9, the Prophets did actually exist. It seems quite reasonable to me that really advanced/powerful beings like the Prophets or Q have cults worshippping them.
And this lot seem to be real set on protecting Bajor, so it's no wonder they got people worshipping them.
Baltar: "I don't want to miss a moment of the last Battlestar's destruction!"
Centurion: "Sir, I really think you should look at the other Battlestar."
Baltar: "What are you babbling about other...it's impossible!"
Centurion: "No. It is a Battlestar."
Corrax Entry 7:17: So you walk eternally through the shadow realms, standing against evil where all others falter. May your thirst for retribution never quench, may the blood on your sword never dry, and may we never need you again.
The link with that is that "Barge of the Dead" was penned by Ronald D. Moore, I shit you not, and from the sounds of things the somewhat aggressive religious theme (that sometimes featured in DS9 and also in VOY's "Barge of the Dead") had gotten worse in the final season of NuBSG. And I'm with Solauren that the Klingon's Anglo-Saxon/Viking-ish afterlife was most likely all in the injured Torres' scrambled head and as mentioned before about the better "Mortal Coil" when Neelix died for real he experienced nada.
'Alright guard, begin the unnecessarily slow moving dipping mechanism...' - Dr. Evil
'Secondly, I don't see why "income inequality" is a bad thing. Poverty is not an injustice. There is no such thing as causes for poverty, only causes for wealth. Poverty is not a wrong, but taking money from those who have it to equalize incomes is basically theft, which is wrong.' - Typical Randroid
'I think it's gone a little bit wrong.' - The Doctor
