nagilum wasn't rational. it's not rational to kill people. it was malevolent and nasty.
An alien rationality is still a rationality. Humans were little more than ants/lab rats to him, at least at first. Picard convinced him otherwise.
the skin of evil i felt sorry for. it was a stain on the world, trapped in hatred. i felt bad for it.
I agree with you hear. A tragic "character".
nagilum had no excuse really, at least if it claimed to be so superior.
Superior in capability is inarguable. Superior in morality......depends on who's morality.
berman didn't like Wil Wheaton and was mean to him.
Oh good. You do have it right. I quite agree with you on that. I was afraid you meant Roddenberry. You had me digging through "Dancing Barefoot" (Wil Wheaton's first book) to find quotes about how much Roddenberry loved the guy.
you've read dancing barefoot? do you by any chance visit his blog?
i haven't read it much in ages but sometimes i check it out.
yeah Roddenberry made Wesley into a boy but wasn't it based on his granddaughter? i haven't read dancing barefoot but i've read loads of the stories in Wil's blog.
i don't think nagilum was rational at all. i have different standards for that. it's logical to be as gentle and kind and emphathetic to all beings because we are all one and we all can feel pain. it benefits us all when we treat each other how we would want to be treated. nagilum was a lonely old fool with no real sense of love or pain... maybe in that sense he wasn't malevolent, he was deluded and inexperienced. not just inexperienced, unable to experience and understand. unless he himself felt pain or loss or died.
and he was not rational because he should have experimented on himself. understanding of death only occurs when you experience it.
and i am against animal testing anyway.