Star Trek: Generations – Soran Wants to Go Back

Posted April 3, 2024, 10:51 a.m.

Doctor Tolian Soran had a very interesting experience in the Nexus.

Like Guinan said: “It was like being inside joy. As if joy was something tangible and you could wrap yourself up in it like a blanket. . . .”

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.

Quotes

I would like to die on Mars; just not on impact.

If you don’t believe in brick walls, you will still be injured when you run headlong into one.

The great political problem in our modern democracy is how to induce our leaders to lead.

You shall walk after the LORD your God and fear him, and keep his commandments and obey his voice, and you shall serve him and cleave to him.

If your view of the world is that people use reason for their important decisions, you are setting yourself up for a life of frustration and confusion.

Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history.

Memory is a net; one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook; but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.

It is the idea that rejecting God . . . will somehow lead to freedom, to complete human fulfillment. As a result [he] is replaced by fleeting human idols which offer the intoxication of a flash of freedom, but in the end bring new forms of slavery and death.

The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.

In the prevailing culture, priority is given to the outward, the immediate, the visible, the quick, the superficial, and the provisional. What is real gives way to appearances.

Faith and reason are indeed interdependent. One of the great secrets of the universe is that reason leans on faith every bit as much as faith leans on reason.

A free and open society is an on-going conflict, interrupted periodically by compromises—which then become the start for the continuation of conflict, compromise, and on ad infinitum.

One thing I find helpful is growing old. It’s a slow process, but totally worth it compared to dying.

So then, brethren, stand firm and hold to the traditions which you were taught by us, either by word of mouth or by letter.

Men talk most about health when they are unhealthy. So too they talk most about freedom when they are in danger of losing it or when they are enslaved.

That’s one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

He who will not use the thoughts of other men’s brains proves that he has no brains of his own!

The observational record tells us unambiguously that the universe is getting more interesting as time goes on.

When they hear the words of God on our lips, unbelievers are amazed at their beauty and power, but when they see that those words have no effect in our lives, their admiration turns to scorn, and they dismiss such words as myths and fairy tales.

We are witnessing, I think, a new American phenomenon. The two parties have become almost indistinguishable; and each is controlled by the Establishment.

Go to Top	`tt`
Go to Bottom	`tb`
Search	`ts`
Main Content	`tc`
Open Gallery (if present)	`tg`
Open Flagpole	`tf`
Keyboard Shortcuts	`tk`
Site Information	`ti`

Main Menu

X

Site Information

Keyboard Shortcuts