Synopsis: On a diplomatic mission to Gideon, Captain Kirk is abducted.
Just as I wrote in my last post that on its surface, “Let That be Your Last Battlefield” can easily be seen as a lesson on the irrationality of prejudice, “The Mark of Gideon” can be seen as a tale of what the possible outcome could be on Earth if birth control is banned. But just as in the prior episode, there is also a deeper meaning and conflict here.
Captain James T. Kirk’s body carries a rare disease that Ambassador Hodin and the leaders of Gideon want to introduce into their population, which has grown to far exceed what the once paradisal planet can bear.
On Gideon, Hodin explains: “we love life, fetus to developed being” and that love of life, a teaching very similar to the Abrahamic religions on Earth, most especially those that teach that “man” has dominion over the Earth, has led them to a place where paradoxically, there is both an “overwhelming love of life” and life as a horror. In more polytheistic cultures, or those where the feminine as well as the masculine is honored, the concept of life and death are different. All life, human and otherwise, is honored and the feminine knows when it is appropriate to bring new life into the world and when to let nature alone and tend to itself. Hopefully the humanoids on Earth will not end up as the race on Gideon did.
Original post created 25 March 2021
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