![]() ![]() There’s one problem with Nero’s effort to deprive the Enterprise crew of their captain, though the timeline is rebuilding Kirk’s destiny. And he doesn’t progress with his self-elected “mission” until he’s sure that Kirk is dead. Nero knows that Kirk’s destiny means his failure, though. In Matthew 28, our Captain gave us orders, and promised that He’d leave no man (or woman) behind in this mission, this endeavor – a great destiny that He previews for us in the book of Revelation. We’re not the man in the captain’s chair of this particular ship. We cannot be neutral.īut while we’re commanded to take part in this adventure, we’re not the heroes. In John Eldredge’s book “ Love and War,” he says that all of human history is “a love story, set in the midst of desperate times, set in the midst of war… require immense courage and sacrifice.” The villain has removed from us the luxury of choosing to be a noncombatant. The Bible makes it clear that we’re at war. He becomes the sort of man who cares for his crew and develops a true sense of duty, as he was destined to. But he can feel the tug of destiny, too – initially to prove himself (“Four years? I’ll do it in three”), then to save Earth (“Either we’re going down…or they are”). Joseph Campbell would call this moment the “Call to Adventure,” and as viewers, we know that he’s supposed to end up as Captain of the Enterprise. I dare you to do better.” Kirk takes that dare. He saved 800 lives – including your mother’s, and yours. Like Pike tells him, “Your father was captain of a starship for 12 minutes. The hero of Star Trek is born in battle, and was never destined for smallness. He knows his defeat is imminent his aim is only to cause pain. He has no regard for civilians, devouring men, women, and children ( 1 Peter 5:8). He represents only himself, saying “I will set my throne on high ( Isaiah 14:13-14)”. The Bible talks about our enemy who is very like this. And there’s no negotiating with him, no discussion – the only way to defeat him is to destroy him utterly. ![]() ![]() He doesn’t allow anyone the luxury of remaining neutral. He destroys Vulcan with the same intensity and purpose that he destroys the fleet, essentially polarizing everyone. He truly is one of the most memorable villains, and that’s largely a result of his casual disregard for civilians. Now, our fears are the terrorists, the renegade who destroys billions to carry out his own vigilante retribution. Since then, the fears of our world have changed, and we no longer fear a monolithic government as much as we once did. When the series was first aired, in the midst of the Cold War, that fear was the Soviet Union – embodied, largely, by a Klingon Empire. Star Trek has classically been about fighting our greatest fears. The three form a series of natural checks and balances, but the battles they play out on the bridge of the Enterprise are the same as the ones in our mind in a sense, both in the old series and the modern film, they are the core of “Us,” boldly going where no one has gone before, with the phaser power (and indeed the duty) to fight our fears and win. McCoy is our conscience, kept in check by what is feasible and what is possible. He’s consistently angered by Spock’s cold calculations. The morality, the sense of right and wrong. Spock is our mind, kept in check by the other two. He can often come across as cruel and unfeeling (“The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few”). He’s concerned with logic, completely and utterly, and doesn’t understand Kirk’s human impulses. ![]()
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