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:: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 ::

Exile

Season 3, Episode 58

Ensign Hoshi Sato is the star of this episode where she is haunted by a telepathic alien who reside alone on a planet. With the promise of a line to the Xindi, the alien encourages Hoshi to spend a few day with him whilst he uses his mysterious powers to divine an origin of a Xindi part gleaned from the wreckage of the probe which cut the swathe of destruction across Florida and the Carribean.

This is a mild criticism of the assumptions written into the script. Telepathy, long a Vulcan mystical skill (mind meld) I find illogical in the true sceptic sense that our resident Vulcan should be advising, yet Star Trek accepts such mysticisms a par for the course and part of the space travel experience. I can't help feeling that when we do meet aliens and can travel faster than current engineering can take seriously, such mysticism will remain subjective and rare. The Amazing Randi of the day will be running around debunking such beliefs just as the real James Randi has done and continues to do today.

Back to "Exile", we find Hoshi being analysed by this alien and him seeking to persuade her to stay with him. I doing so, we learn a bit more about our Enterprise Communications Officer, and she deals admirably with this lonely but powerful, long liveling exile. Perhaps one day there will be a scientific explanation.

In the end Hoshi gets a link to a Xindi world and is free from his agressive reaxtion to her telling him "no, I don't want to stay with you!". Even with his understanding of her inner conflict and isolation due to her high intelligence I would say. Coming out of this shining is Hoshi, and a better understanding of this oft malined character

:: Clifford 5:29 pm [+] ::
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