2026-02-28 11:49 UTC
@ianRobinson@mastodon.social Well there's another reason not to watch the latest version.
On religion (or more properly the religious) in Sci Fi, I think rather highly of both B5 and DS9 and their handling of such things. JMS is not religious but he shows the absolute best example of living your religion (Delenn and some other Minbari) and the worst (Centauri cynicism, the hidebound Grey Council, the hypocrisy of the Narn). All sides get a fair hearing. The same with DS9 and Bajoran faith interacting with Star Fleet's secular humanism.
Delenn in particular walks the walk. S2E18 Confessions and Lamentations is obviously a take our reaction to HIV, but Delenn goes into quarantine to care for the Makab even though it is unknown if the plague can spread to Minbari. A better example of faith in action I cannot imagine. And then her suffering watching everyone die...
Religion and the religious can be good and they can be bad. So can the secular. I loath anyone (religious or not) who belittles the other side's point of view.
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@beer_mat_movies__dup_34617@mastodonapp.uk 2026-02-28 16:07
@troi@techhub.social @ianRobinson@mastodon.social Your contrast of Minbari and Narn religious representation puzzles me given the depicted canon. Delenn, and the Minbari religious representatives in general, are only shown as being correct in reference to a scientific stable time loop, whereas the most negative portrayals of religion come from outside causality. Even the notion of Minbari religion is influenced by the Vorlon method of control of the younger races, whereas after their departure, it is G'Kar stripping away superstition to the core moral elements that leads to the Declaration of Principles and the humourous point that such work is never finished and cannot be canonised.