The Degradation of God in Star Trek
The degradation of God into a highly evolved alien being, is a constant theme that joins all the Star Trek series, as I demonstrate in the following review. In the episode of the original series, entitled "Who Mourns for Adonais?" (season 2, episode 2), the Enterprise's crew discovers that the pagan Gods worshipped by the ancient humans, are actually an alien species in possess of a highly advanced technology. The humans of the past, being unaware, were subdued by the alien technology that they interpreted as God's power. But Star Trek humans have finally achieved the technological progression that made them possible to defeat ancient Gods. The plot of Who Mourns for Adonais? is forerunner of Roland Emmerich's movie Stargate . In the fifth episode of the second season of the animated series, entitled "How Sharper than a Serpent's Tooth", the Enterprise stumbles upon Kukulkan, a legendary Mayan divinity in the shape of a winged snake, that came...