Idioms Employed in Science Fiction Stories

Let's review all the ways in which just the Star Trek episodes have expanded our imaginations.  First of all we have what I fall the "unfamiliar life forms" scenario.  We see this is Far Point Station and "Q" and they are mates that are trapped as other forms of matter by an evil force, and are unrecognizable.  This whole 'life' thing even carries over into seemingly inamimate machines such as the "Exocomps", which were machines that developed "sentience" somehow on their own.  We see it again in the Holideck Shirlock Holms episodes.  Then we have the "garbled instructions" scenario like the first full length Star Trek movie where missions of sattalites we sent out into space were strangely merged and the result was something that absolutely no one intended or anticipated.  We have a 'don't poke the bear" scenario where life forms are defensive of their own territory such as the Crystal Entity or the case with the creature burrowing tunnels and leaving its eggs, which are destroyed unknowingly.  Or you had that Dr Spock "afraid of the light" episode where on this planet everyone hid indoors because there were some kind of rays or something that drove people mad.  Or we have the strange lifeforms and their prejudices, such as being called "ugly bags of water" because human beings are largely water.  Or we have shape shifters referring to humanoids as "Solids" in a disparaging way.  Then you have children of aliens- - who play elaborate mind games with humans and lead them into elaborate scenarios- - before the truth is revealed that they are only immature children who shouldn't use humans as things to experiment on- - or somehow regard as their personal playthings or "pets".  Then there is the ever present idea of the "Portals' into other realms of existance.  We have Warf and his "time discomuity" episode- - where a person can vanish for a while and have a life changing experiance- - and come back and report it, but the time and space he experianced could not be proven by anybody else.  Then there are the "It's not nice to go back and alter the past" because when you do so, Dire things inevitably happen.  Either your life now is a Diosaster, or Civilization as you have known it- is Gone.  Then there ecological episodes such as the "rug" theory about traveling at too high of Warp speeds can "wear out' the faborick of sub-space or something.  A variation on this theory is the idea that if we probe "too deeply into space" of a "Sub" nature- - that we may encounter strange beings with their own spacial dimensions.  Make a deal.  We don't invade their world and they won't invade ours. 

So now we come to religion and here we encounter logical contradictions.  Star Trek seems to teach the "You don't get Do-overs in Life" as Neil Savedra says.  And yet Christianity is based on the central point that you DO get do-overs in life, even when you don't Deserve one.  But we have the whole basic "God" thing himself and the primal story and Lesson of the Bible- - one could argue all other stories are hinged on is that you don't question God and that ignorance is bliss and Curiosity- - intellectual or whatever- - is bad.  Because if you commit ONE infraction you get kicked out of "Paradise' or whatever.  Here you get one chance to get it write.  Sometimes with Christians you get NO chances- - such as Father Eric with Nicole Walker on today's Days of our Lives episode.  Nicole didn't have a chance.  Adolph Hitler's friends used to kid with him about his overuse of the phrase "Unshakable conviction".  But even here Adolph Hitler shows more intellectual honesty than the Church, particularly the Catholics of old, who speak of "Unshakable FACTS" on which all other Truth and Experience is based.  And the thing is- - there is a thing in Human Nature where as evidence mounts up that the Thing you have placed your central Belief in- - is a Lie- - many people choose to cling even more tightly to the Lie than admit they are wrong and change and deal with Reality.  You certainly see this in the Tea Party.  In contrast when I do what I do in the way of Cosmic stuff- - I report events - - but I don't decide ahead of time on some "Moral Lesson" and develope Events around them to "Prove" my point.  Christians are LESS concerned with the Facts than they are their own Conclusions they draw from the "facts".  In contrast- - - I see the conclusion or philosophical "lesson" (if any) as strictly secondary to the facts themselves.  You don't conduct court trials where the Outcome has been pre decided unless you are dealing with Cardassians in Star Trek or something.  And you don't "set up people" in some scenario or "trap" you lay on them and get them with ever increasing prodding to commit some Act you deem as Proof that they are somehow "Not worthy of your respect".  And then when they are thus ensnared- - in a rigged crap game so to speak- - you act Outraged that they were Guilty of the thing you set them up to commit to begin with.  Dr David Viscott once spoke of this.  And then you go on and tell people that you are Unhappy with the way the other person acted.  But in truth had the other person NOT fallen into your well laid snare- - THEN is when you truely would be disappointed.  And then you accuse the other person of tricking or "pulling a fast one on you" because they DIDN'T fall into your trap.  (Selah)