Star Trek Critical Thinking

How many times have you found yourself desiring the ability to read another person’s mind? It would certainly be a helpful ability to have. Imagine how much simpler communication would be with our spouses and with our children. The ability to communicate with mentally and physically disabled people would also be a boon to everyone’s lives. In the Star Wars series of movies, reading, and even manipulating, another person’s mind is possible. The first installment of that franchise sees Obi Wan Kenobi, the aged Jedi master, using this ability on a group of clones when they ask he and Luke Skywalker where they acquired the droids. His ability to read minds and manipulate them delivered he and Luke from certain destruction. Who would not want such an ability? In addition to mind reading, how often have you wished you could see things without being seen? People have often said, “I wish I could be a fly on the wall in that meeting.” The thought behind this statement is that we want all the juicy details without the negative drawbacks. Another space-related series known as Star Trek has a character who often used this concept. His name was simply “Q,” and he was a constant nuisance to the Enterprise and to the Voyager …show more content…
Keil claims that the psalm’s language “is still such as is without precedent in the Davidic age” (808). He also mentions one manuscript of the Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Old Testament, that attributes the psalm to Zechariah during the time of the dispersion (Keil 808; Elwell 1: 315). These claims are highly suspect. The Aramaic used in the psalm could easily belong to David (Spurgeon 258). It is also difficult to prove a post-exilic date for the psalm based on one manuscript out of the hundreds that suggest otherwise. Another objection to David’s authorship is that it has too many similarities to Job, but this neither proves nor disproves anything (Kidner