Star Trek: The 1960's
Star Trek talked about WAR in the 1960's. The threat of war was elevated by the introduction of these types of weapons.
Nuclear Weapons
Who is the Captain of the Enterprise?
Captain James T. Kirk
Who were the bad guys in this Episode?
The Romulans
Who was the First African American Female in Space?
Mae C. Jameson
In which school was the focus of the movie?
TC Williams in Virginia
Creator Gene Roddenberry's mission was to include mixed races into his main cast. When mixed races work together for a common goal, this is called what?
Diversity
Who is the First Officer and Chief Science officer from Vulcan?
Commander Spock
TRUE or FALSE: The Captain of the enemy space ship was a blood thirsty, war monger that wanted Humans to die.
FALSE:
He was a thought filled man with a duty to perform.
Black History teaches the horrors of our past, but also teaches us about a battle that we still fight to this day.
It's the fight for THIS...
What big event happened in the Virginia School system that shook up our society?
School were desegregated.
World War II
Which issue in the 1960's did "A Taste of Armageddon" deal with?
War
Spock falls under some suspicion when the enemy is revealed. Why are they all shocked?
They look like Spock with the pointed ears and complexion.
Slavery was abolished by THIS AMENDMENT in the United States Constitution.
the 13th Amendment
Coach Herman Boone thought of himself as a football coah, and that was it. How did the rest of the black community see him?
As a savior.
"You're OUR coach."
Captain Kirk is a man that understands when to fight and when to think first. He is modeled after a famous person that died just three years prior to the creation of Star Trek. Who was that man?
President John F. Kennedy
A computer simulates deaths in a war. No actual bombs are dropped, so how do the Eminians deal with war deaths?
People volunteer for disintegration
Why is it so important for the Enterprise to hunt down and destroy the enemy ship?
If the enemy gets home, it could start a war.
In the 1960's Three prominent figures in the fight for equality were assassinated. Can you name at least two of them?
Double points if you get all three.
President JFK
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Malcolm X
"I don't scratch my head unless I feel an itch, and I don't dance unless I hear music."
Coach Boone tells Yoast this because he let people do THIS to him.
Intimidate him.
Which two issues did Star Trek deal with that were prominent in the 1960's?
Racism/Equality and War.
Why did the war between Eminiar and the Vendikans go on for 500 years?
They didn't experience the "ugliness"
It was a quiet, pretty method of war.
Before his ultimate end, the Romulan commander says something very odd. You wouldn't expect the enemy to say something like that. What does he tell Kirk?
"In another realm, we might have called you 'friend'"
When mentioning Black or White, there is a difference in their meaning. As middle schoolers, we've either made fun of, or misunderstood the differences. One is insulting, Racist. The other is THIS, which means simply describing something about a person's ethnicity without being racist.
RACIAL
What lesson does the ONLY mixed race football team teach the community around them by the end of the movie?
"Trust the Soul of a man, rather than the look of him."