“He said that he would flush my head down a toilet.”
“Shore Leave”
Star Trek: The Original Series episode
Episode no.
Season 1
Episode 15
Directed by
Robert Sparr
Written by
Theodore Sturgeon
Featured music
Gerald Fried
Cinematography by
Jerry Finnerman
Production code
017
Original air date
December 29, 1966
Guest appearance(s)
Marcia Brown – Alice
Emily Banks – Yeoman Tonia Barrows
Oliver McGowan – The Caretaker
Perry Lopez – Esteban Rodriguez
Barbara Baldavin – Lt. Angela Martine
Bruce Mars – Finnegan
Shirley Bonne – Ruth
Sebastian Tom – The Warrior
Star Trek: The Original Series (season 1)
List of Star Trek: The Original Series episodes
“Shore Leave” is the fifteenth episode of the first season of the American science fiction television series, Star Trek. Written by Theodore Sturgeon and directed by Robert Sparr, it first aired on December 29, 1966.
In the episode, the crew of the Enterprise visits a bizarre planet where strange and utterly improbable things happen to the landing party sent to do an initial planetary survey.
August 14, 2019
“Shut Up”
You constructed your perfect woman.
I fell for the young woman and I still see the prophet.
But you are stronger and you had other plans for her.
However, I count 5 different chefs in her intellectual thicket!
She became someone I could not have anything to do with…
What are you constructing these children to be synergy?
The Preacher’s Complete Homiletical Commentary
CHAP. X. HOMILETIC COMMENTARY: ST. MATTHEW.
MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.—Verses 34—42.
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Final counsels.—The Savior’s object in these final counsels seems to be that of enforcing decision. He would have His Apostles go forth on this their primary mission with their minds fully made up. With this object He brings before them, in closing, some fuller information. First, respecting the nature of the case, and, secondly, respecting the nature of the issue.
I. The nature of the case.—It was one requiring decision. It was so on account of the vital nature of that which had to be taught. The message they had to carry to men in His name, or as it were to “cast” down (ver. 34, R. V.) in their sight, was not one which would leave the feelings of men as they had previously been. It would not lie there, like a dead thing, having no effect on their thoughts. Rather, it would excite those thoughts in no common degree, and arouse men wholly out of any such unthinking peace as they may have previously known. Also, the feelings which would be aroused by it would not be all on one side. Rather, again, they would be on exactly opposite sides from the very nature of the case. They would be on more than opposite—they would be on conflicting sides—and on such as bring about strife. Not peace, in a word, but a “sword” (ver. 34). That would be the first result of promulgating His word. Moreover, this will be so even in those cases where we should otherwise have looked for it least. NO NATURAL TIE, NO TIE OF AFFINITY (ver. 35) CAN RESIST THE SEPARATING FORCE OF THIS “sword”. NOR WILL EVEN HOME ITSELF—THE VERY PLACE OF PEACE—BE ALWAYS UNDISTURBED BY ITS POWER (ver. 36). That is the essence of the story to be told. It is such as will divide those who hear it amongst themselves, wherever they are. Also, it will do so in a manner which does not admit of either compromise or half measures. One of two things only can be done with the truth it declares. That truth, in effect, is nothing less than the truth about Christ. “What think ye of Christ?” that is the question which it presents to men’s minds. The answer, therefore, to such a question can be of only two sorts. It must put Christ first, or it puts Him nowhere, according to His view of the case. This is true, moreover, no matter to whom else the first place may be given. “He that loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me” (ver. 37)—is not considered by Me to be “loving” Me as he ought. No one, in short, is considered by Me as doing so who is not willing for My sake to bear any “cross” of this kind (ver. 38). That is how I expect men to be on My side. Such a proclamation, as it were, at once SIFTS MEN INTO TWO OPPOSITE CAMPS. IN THE ONE CAMP ARE ALL THOSE WHO DEAL IN ANY WAY FALSELY WITH SUCH A REQUIREMENT. IN THE OTHER CAMP ARE ONLY THOSE WHO ACCEPT IT IN FULL. I expect My Apostles to “lead the way” to this last.
II. The nature of the issue.—This is not such as may be supposed. This is not so doubtful as may sometimes appear. On the contrary, looking on things as a whole, and taking “life”, as it comes to us, as a thing in which good and evil are greatly mingled together, this fullness of decision on Christ’s side is far the best side in this “war”[struggle]. SO MUCH SO, INDEED, THAT IN NO OTHER WAY, CAN “LIFE” REALLY BE TO US WHAT IT SHOULD. ALL OTHER SEEMING GAINS AMOUNT TO DEADLIEST LOSS IN THE END. ALL APPARENT LOSSES IN THIS WAY ARE BUT THE PRICE PAID FOR “FINDING” ALL IN THE END. “He that finds his life shall lose IT [for the soul changes], and he that loses his life for My sake shall find IT” (ver. 39). LET NOTHING, THEREFORE, BE ALLOWED TO SHAKE YOU AS TO THE TRUTH OF THAT PARADOX. That alone should satisfy you as to the wisdom of being heartily on My side. At the same time, THAT STATEMENT, with all its preciousness, DOES NOT STAND BY ITSELF. IT IS NOT ONLY TRUE, AS IT WERE, THAT, ON A GENERAL BALANCE, THINGS WILL COME OUT AS I SAY, AND THAT THE GOOD TO BE HOPED FOR WILL BE FOUND IN THE END TO MORE THAN COMPENSATE FOR THE EVIL TO BE BORNE; IT IS TRUE ALSO, MEANWHILE, and in every particular, when things are judged as they should be, that it will be best to do as I say. For there is a blessing, in fact, about your very mission which is found in practice to make a blessing of every action that is in accordance therewith. A blessing on yourselves and those who receive you (ver. 41), a blessing on the least as well as on the greatest (vers. 41, 42); a blessing, in short, on everything that, in any way is a ministration of[to serve a] blessing in turn. Even a cup of cold water given to one of whom nothing more can be said than that he is one of the “little ones” but one of the true ones in the kingdom of God, is far more than it seems. It is something done with a worthy object in view. It is something done unto Christ (xxv. 40), and, therefore, not without note (Heb. vi. 10). It is something which it is Godlike and Christlike to do; something, therefore, which in itself and in its very essence, it is a signal blessing to do. Happy is the man so devoted to Christ that His life is a life of such deeds. Every step in his life is in itself a justification of his choice. In speaking thus to His chosen Apostles Christ is also speaking to us. This is true whether we consider:
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1. The points of resemblance between us and them.—In their measure all true disciples are in a similar position with these. They have the same Master above them, the same deposit entrusted to them, the same duty in regard to it, the same choice and the same difficulties before them, the same assurances to support them. As did these first, therefore, so must we in our turn. All the arguments then drawn from the nature of the case may be drawn from it still. There is but one choice, and one way of choosing, in the great strife betwixt Christ and the world. All for Him who does all for us—is still the badge of His church.
2. The points of difference.—When the Apostles thus went forth to their work with their lives in their hands, they went forth to a forlorn hope in the eyes of the world. We, in our day, and in this respect, are not called to the same. We have the benefit of both their example and experience, and that of generations like them till now. All the greater, therefore, would be our disgrace if we were to hang back. Every disciple is not expected to lead like these first ; but no disciple can expect to be called a disciple if he does not follow when led.
