This episode feels like Rod Serling penning a morality tale episode of Star Trek the Original Series.
Sci fi to address the human condition. Dulling the blade by putting aliens in place of humans so the message can get through.
The people who lived in the German towns surrounding concentration camps during World War II... the ones who kept those horrible places running as support staff by bringing in supplies, mechanics repairing a truck, a file clerk... Were truly all of them monsters?
Our gut, Kira's gut says yes. They knew what was going on and they did nothing.
But then an alien reminds us that we all are just human and being human some of those people maybe were just... cowards.
Hardly a virtue. Definitely deserving of some kind of punishment... or penance.
It's hard to truly comprehend a holocaust. The scale is just so large it doesn't seem real. Even when staring at the proof that it happened. You just can't understand how it gets there. How it gets that bad, that awful, that horrific.
But we can all understand cowardice.
And once you have an in, you can come to a glimmer of an understanding. And that kind of understanding is what us required if we are ever to prevent the like from occurring again.
Kudos to all involved in this episode, you nailed it.
Sci fi to address the human condition. Dulling the blade by putting aliens in place of humans so the message can get through.
The people who lived in the German towns surrounding concentration camps during World War II... the ones who kept those horrible places running as support staff by bringing in supplies, mechanics repairing a truck, a file clerk... Were truly all of them monsters?
Our gut, Kira's gut says yes. They knew what was going on and they did nothing.
But then an alien reminds us that we all are just human and being human some of those people maybe were just... cowards.
Hardly a virtue. Definitely deserving of some kind of punishment... or penance.
It's hard to truly comprehend a holocaust. The scale is just so large it doesn't seem real. Even when staring at the proof that it happened. You just can't understand how it gets there. How it gets that bad, that awful, that horrific.
But we can all understand cowardice.
And once you have an in, you can come to a glimmer of an understanding. And that kind of understanding is what us required if we are ever to prevent the like from occurring again.
Kudos to all involved in this episode, you nailed it.