Uhura after gladiator planet.... Not the sun up in the sky, but the Son of God.
Kirk gushing to see it "all happen all over again."
Now you can look at this a few different ways and it was handled well.
At that time if you were not believing in god you were some kind of commie.
These days things are almost flipped around. And that's coming from someone who
is not religious, and I do use expressions that would imply I believe because you grow up with them.
Spock: [referring to Flavius] I wish we could've examined that belief of his more closely. It seems illogical for a sun worshiper to develop a philosophy of total brotherhood. Sun worship is usually a primitive superstition religion.
Uhura: I'm afraid you have it all wrong, Mister Spock, all of you. I've been monitoring some of their old-style radio waves, the empire spokesman trying to ridicule their religion. But he couldn't. Don't you understand? It's not the sun up in the sky. It's the Son of God.
Capt. Kirk: Caesar - and ******. They had them both. And the word is spreading... only now.
Dr. McCoy: A philosophy of total love and total brotherhood.
Spock: It will replace their imperial Rome; but it will happen in their twentieth century.
Capt. Kirk: Wouldn't it be something to watch, to be a part of? To see it happen all over again? Mister Chekov, take us out of orbit. Ahead warp factor one.
Chekov: Aye, sir.
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They wouldn't touch a story like this today I think we all can agree there.