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THE INDIVIDUAL IN DEEP SPACE AND WHAT HE FOUND THERE.

Chapter 0.0 : Black Sea – life with walls in a vacuum.

PART ONE : THE SHIP’S CAPTAIN, MORAL DECISIONS WITHOUT A CONTEXT

Chapter 1.1 : Who we are – humanity and representations of humanity.

Let us start by finding out exactly who we are dealing with in bsg and tng. By this I mean where the charaters in the fleet and on the enterprise, respectively, fit in relationship to the human race at large, within their respective contexts.
After the attack on bgs’s Twelve Colonies, the President’s aid Billy estimates there to be about 50,298 individuals (souls) who have survived. This figure is revised by the end of the episode (1.1) to 47,973. This statistic is vitally important to understanding the whole premise of BSG and how the actions of the individual are the crux of the show. This number is not representative of humanity, it is humanity. All of these people’s histories have come to this point in time, to this number of individuals to act out an enclosed narrative.

Chapter 1.2 : The Prime directive and the President – limitations on the moral self.

A good point of access to start analysing the moral dilemmas in which Picard and Adama are placed is to look at their governing rules. In the Star Trek series Picard must always remember the Prime Directive:

“No identification of self or mission. No interference with the social development of said planet. No references to space or the fact that there are other worlds or civilizations”


Chapter 1.3 : “Yours is the Bridge Number 1” – Saul Tigh and Will Riker.


PART TWO : THE OTHER IN DEEP SPACE

Chapter 2.1 : The Void Mirror – the context of deep space

Chapter 2.2 : Loving the alien – projections of the self into deep space.

Chapter 2.3 : Going Home – from subjective context, to objective.

R B Grange

Job 41, 29 "...he laugheth at the shaking of a spear."

Macbeth is ridiculous.

R B Grange