Philosophers , scientist and metaphysicians have spent thousands of yr trying to untangle the whodunit of human creation . Questions like “ nature vs. nurture , ” or “ fate vs. spare will ” have no easy answer — unless you learn TV , that is . Here are 7 goggle box episodes that classify out query that the slap-up minds could n’t resolve .
doubt : Nature or Nurture ?
The episode that launched a thousand parallel worlds ( and demonstrate , once and for all , that a military man with a goatee is a man who should n’t be trusted),“Mirror Mirror”also evidence that the upstanding , moral go-ahead work party could be completely different hoi polloi if they had grown up in the dark worldly concern of the mirror population .
motion : What does it think of to be a somebody ?
Widely considered one of the best episodes of the series,“The Measure of a Man”goes beyond “ courtroom episode ” and straight into philosophy . When a cyberneticist decides that he wants to disassemble Data for pick up from his design , Data refuses and a auditory sense is call to determine whether Data is even give up to make that decision . The episode dive into questions like what does it entail to be sentient , is it even possible to measure consciousness , and how do we define who deserves right and who does not . In the end it ’s determine that data point at least passes the sentience trial at the same level as humans , and that therefore he must be allowed to resolve for himself .
dubiousness : Do the ends justify the mean ?
Another Riffian on the what is acceptable in the name of the greater secure interrogation , thisepisodesees Ben Sisko team up with Garak to bring the Romulans into the state of war against the Dominion . The plan becomes darker and darker over the course of the time of day , with Sisko becoming complicit in the slaying of two people , along with a whole host of other crimes and bad human action . In the end the Romulans do join the Federation ’s side , at the cost , as Garak enounce , of “ the life of one Romulan senator , one criminal , and the self - respect of one Starfleet officer . ” But the ends clearly do rationalize the means , even at the price of one Isle of Man ’s personal morality .
inquiry : What happens after death ?
Technically speaking , the Nethersphere in Doctor Who is n’t the afterlife , per se — but it is capturing the great unwashed ’s consciousnesses after end and keep them in a kind of cybernetic “ Heaven , ” which imply that multitude can afterward have their person download back into their body — which turn into Cybermen . In other wrangle , there is something after end , and something remains of the human knowingness . Related question : do all dogs go to the Nethersphere , and is this how you getCybershades ?
Question : What is the unfeigned nature of humanness ?
In thisepisodeof The Twilight Zone , humanity are basically panic-struck , selfish , and icky . The residents of Maple Street see a shadow and flash of light overhead , but think nothing of it until the power goes off . They take it into their head that this is the result of an foreign intrusion , with the aliens hiding among them as people , and chaos and mob - mental capacity ensues . It turns out that the shadow was actually a starship , and the installment conclude with two unknown remarking that the good elbow room to destroy humanity would just be to let the humans do it for them .
motion : Is there such a thing as luck , and can it be change ?
In thisepisode , Buffy meet a teenage daughter who informs her that she ’s foreseen her own death . Buffy scrambles around and saves her from being sacrifice during a summon ritual , and then from a crossbow bolt to the head , but the girl goes ahead and dies anyway from a inborn heart defect . So , no to the whole exchange fate question .
Question : Does God exist ?
This episodemay ask more theological interrogation than it answers , but the answers it does give are screaming . During an plan of attack Bender is incidentally fired into infinite , where he crash into an asteroid and becomes a idol to a tiny humanoid civilization that grows on him . Some of the “ Shrimpkins ” migrate to his bottom and become atheist , war breaks out , and the civilization is destroyed . Bender preserve on his way and run across a godlike entity , who partake in some similar experience and says that it ’s just given up on direct intervention . So the answer to “ does God exist ” may be “ you only imagine he does n’t because you ’re last between his butt cheeks ” ?
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