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So.much.stupid.
Guess who!?
"In Star Trek The Next Generation episode "Conundrum" the Enterprisecrew's memories are erased. Suddenly out of no where we see CommanderMacduff. It turns out that he was an alien pretending to be human. Hisspecies was at War with a nearby world. Neither species had thetechnology to defeat the other. He hoped to convince the Enterprisecrew that they were at war with his enemy. The Enterprise weaponrywould allow him to win that war.
In William Shakespeare'sMacbeth, Macbeth was told that he could only be killed bu a man who wasnot born of a woman. In the story, that man was Macduff. He was born byCesarean. He eventually did kill Macbeth.
When I first saw"Conundrum" I was not that familiar with Macbeth and had never heard ofthe character Macduff. When I read Macbeth, the minute I saw thecharacter of Macduff, it made me think of the Star Trek character. Iwonder if the writers of Start Trek had the Shakespearean Macduff inmind when they created this man.
There are similarities anddifferences between the two characters. Macduff of Star Trek was analien pretending to be a human where Macduff of Shakespeare was a mannot born of a woman. Macduff of Macbeth was the hero of the story. Hewas the only one who could end the dictatorship of Macbeth. On StarTrek, Macduff was the villain. He was trying to manipulate the crewinto ending his war. Star Trek tries to incorporate other literatureinto his stories. It routinely makes references to other works. Thismay be one of those examples."
Re: So.much.stupid.
I kept seeing Macduff and thinking "McGruff."
Dammit, I just posted about this!
Here is from my post above:
MacDuff character from Star Trek based on MacDuff from MacBeth? It's blatantly clear that most SciFi writers are well versed in classics and borrow from them constantly. It's not a stretch to come to this conclusion and not question it.
He's one of those people who would see West Side Story and say, "OMG, THEY RIPPED OFF ROMEO AND JULIET!"
I can't stop reading them but EK and DTM make my head hurt.Except with him, it'd be "OMG, they ripped off [some stupid Star Trek romance]!!"
there are only EIGHT major storylines in the world.
zomgs, Harry Potter stole from C.S. Lewis.
Gimme a break.