At Flashbak this week, I remembered ten instances in which TV's space heroes stood trial.
Here's a snippet and the url (http://flashbak.com/summoned-galactic-court-ten-times-favorite-space-hero-went-trial-35115/ )
"Even in space, the ultimate enemy is…the court system. Throughout science fiction TV history, the greatest heroes of all time have faced this litigious menace, standing trial and running up against a judicial system bent on destroying them.
To put it another way,
the success of Perry Mason (1957 – 1966) has had an undeniable ripple effect
on space adventure TV, as odd as that seems.
Even in the final
frontier, there are judges, juries, witnesses, and attorneys. Even in the distant reaches of space and
time, viewers are fated, it seems, to hear such exclamations as “objection, your honor!” or warning
phrases like “this is highly
irregular….but I’ll allow it.”
Gazing across the space
TV canon, one can see how every space hero worth his or her salt has been wrongly accused of a crime, and cast
into alien and draconian brands of justice and punishment. Seeing so many
episodes featuring space age heroes standing trial, decade-after-decade,
franchise after franchise, one sees that these entertainments are pondering the
shape and breadth of justice in a new setting; one of technological
breakthroughs and new morality.
Below are at least ten occasions in sci-fi TV history in which heroes went before a jury of peers to stand judgment for their “crimes.”
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