I thought this was really good, but why did Gary Mitchell...who has god-like powers...need to have a ship and followers, a sort of army of his own? Seems to me he could pretty much just do what he wanted.
shareThat’s a very good question. Maybe his powers had Limits? I could accept that but had another problem with Mitchell. Well three or four really. One I began my own thread about, but another was why he would found a New order? And why did the ships not really advance? Part of his power include rapid learning and even tyrannies develop technology. Not that I really think Mitchell would be interested in building a Tyrannical Empire. I mean, he’d grow bored with the vastly inferior subjects of his, and just go sit on proverbial Olympus, and maybe make a few other gods to join him the same way he was made. I doubt he’d want to actually run an Empire like that.
shareIt would have been more interesting to have him team up with Q and the Squire of Gothos.
shareI'll answer your question, with another question:
What does God, want with a starship?
Kirk asked this very question in "Star Trek 5". Supposedly, they were dealing with "a" God, if not possibly THE God. What does a God need a starship? Gary Mitchell may have god-like powers, but he's still very much a corporeal being. He has mass, and can't just travel through space at a whim.
The only "god-like entity" who exhibited such power as to move around both time and space without a physical conveyance (such as a starship), was the Q.
Well, and the organians, and the Lights of Zetar, and Appollo, I'm sure there are others. One may even count V'Ger, unless you say V'Ger is a ship.
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