When someone is grieving, it's more important to be helpful than right.
I worked as a hospital chaplain one summer. One day, I was called upon to baptize a dead baby. Did it help the baby? No. But it helped the mother a lot.
By modern standards, Roddenberry was unimaginative and his plots often silly. But by the standards of the day, his science fiction was groundbreaking.
On a related note, it's a pity that he was not allowed to stick to his original plan and have a female first officer and decent uniforms for the women on board.
I worked as a hospital chaplain one summer. One day, I was called upon to baptize a dead baby. Did it help the baby? No. But it helped the mother a lot.
Pork is not a crime!
http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/ukraine.html
I was not aware of this change.
On a related note, it's a pity that he was not allowed to stick to his original plan and have a female first officer and decent uniforms for the women on board.
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/25/physics-student-casts-doubt-on-the-realism-of-my-little-pony-cartoon/
Sloppy work from the latest bunch of history Ph.Ds.