Do you ever feel like you’re carrying an impossibly fragile, heavy, unwieldy little world around with you, and you’re doing everything you can to protect it and prevent it from shattering?
The comments have very valid points, and if you see this reblog, you should read them as well, but the initial idea was that Star Wars has a lot of focus on individual heroism - there are teams saving the day, but in the end the OT is centered on Luke’s personal struggle with himself and the Dark Side, and there’s much more of the sense that a single person can affect the galaxy with wits and/or a lightsaber - it’s more Iliadic or Odyssean.
Star Trek, on the other hand, is about crew cohesion and bringing the ideals and material benefits of the Federation to other worlds, and serving the Federation or your crew above yourself, which feels like the ideals of Republican Rome - you’re not going to get Scaevola, sacrificing his hand, not for personal ideals but to show the virtues of his people, in Star Wars, but you might in Trek.
Every ship captain we see in Star Trek (but especially Picard) is a philosopher-king, while Star Wars has the fall of the Republic and the rise of the Empire.
I guess you can go either way with this question, depending on whether you’re comparing the series to Greek vs. Roman art or Greek vs. Roman politics.
I love finding things like this on this site. It’s like coming across graduate-level discussions free-range
“Now, you stand above your father. Above all those lesser men. Soon, the entire world will kneel at your feet. And I will always be by your side, my Blade.”
there’s a cherry blossom tree in DC that keeps blooming every year even though it shouldn’t and the park service keeps thinking it’s dead and then it keeps blooming! well they’re removing a lot of trees to rehabilitate the area and they’ve said it’s finally time for stumpy to go and they’re going to mulch it and use the mulch to enrich all the other trees so it can help everything else keep going. and they’re also going to plant spliced little pieces of it all over so that stumpy can live forever and this is genuinely sending me into a spiral
For added context on what rehabilitating the area means: there are structural issues with the Tidal Basin seawall that cause flooding like this independent of rainfall. Big portions of the sidewalk in Stumpy’s section are regularly submerged, which is bad for the land and the trees themselves, not to mention an accessibility issue for visitors.
It’s sad that Stumpy and many other trees in the area will need to be cut down, but it will ensure the continued survival of the other trees in the area, and Stumpy himself will live on in his cuttings!
I believe Stumpy will be taken to the national arboretum and his clones will return to the tidal basin after the rebuilding.
Someone left him a bottle of bourbon as an offering.
The Japanese Embassy came to pay him honor this week.
Stumpy and his cohort are part of the original gift from Japan more than 100 years ago, and many have lived this long bc the National Parks takes care of them. Normally the trees live about 40-50 years.
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