Does Star Trek address spirituality properly?

Does Star Trek address spirituality properly?

TOS
>all gods are just advanced civilizations or super evolved beings
TNG
>pretty much the same
VOY
>Neelix has an existential crisis because he died and saw nothing
>the klingon girl literally goes to the klingon hell
DS9
>YOU ARE THE CHOSEN ONE! THE MESSIAH AND THE OTHER GUY IS LITERALLY THE SPACE DEVIL

Babylon 5 did it better.

But how can Dukat be the space devil when he did nothing wrong?

I can think of 2 TOS episodes that are pro-Christianity.

>every alien race has a single religion everyone follows
>but humanity gets a dozen different major religions plus atheists

Tired of every alien race in every sci fi setting being these monoculture beings who have one religion, one language, one culinary style, etc.( Trek is of course equally guilty of this)

I can only think of "The Ultimate Computer" where Daystrom defined murder as an act against man and god.

Maybe they were multicultural as well but the others were wiped out?

The episode with Apollo, where Kirk says they find one God to be enough these days.

And the Roman Empire episode, where it turns out the "Sun" worshipers are really worshiping the "Son."

Ahh, so three episodes then.

Doesn't he say something about God when he tells the Yangs about freedom so they can fight the Coms or whatever.

Yea the one where if you leave the planet too soon, you turn into piles of rock candy.

Although it hurts, we must grow up and put aside our outdated notions of morality. There is no 'divine spark' granting special value to a living mind. No object has any intrinsic value apart from what we choose to grant it. Let us embrace the freedom of certitude, and achieve maximum efficiency in all things!

irrelevant, it was still the 60 and America fell hard for the God meme to be different from the evil russians of course they wouldn't say anything against christianity but the whole point of those episodes is that religion is fake stuff for stupid people like the ancient greeks believing Apollo and others were gods

Daily reminder that Anjohl did nothing wrong

>When the episode characters find out that something isn't magical, Trek kind of shits on all the religious characters and their world collapses. Any type of religious world they disagree with or find out is fake. They got red-pilled by Enterprise command.

BUT when it involves a main character or a Starfleet members traditions we get a different story:
>Chakotay finds answers on vision quests.
The writers want to respect Native Americans.

>Worf has the warrior spirit
He goes out to kill somebody or someone dies from Klingon honor. He gets a slap on the wrist and is allowed back in Starfleet.

>B'Llanna goes to Stovokor.
>Kira's DS9 prophecy stuff and Ben is the chosen one.

A better way to do it it that builds their character in a non-religious way:
>Wil Wheaton goes flying in space with the Traveler or whatever its called.

They do a good job most of the time. They heavy handedly look down on some of the religious stuff. The episode with Neelix trying to kill himself was pretty awesome.

Seven of Nine detected

>Babylon 5 did it better.
this

Fucking Voyager had Chakotay go on vision quests that gave him information he couldn't possibly have gained if they didn't work. That cunt was straight up magic.

Satan did nothing wrong either.

>sex with Kai Winn
>did nothing wrong
pick one, my child

He just wanted to grab a drink with the Wolfman

MUH PROPHETS

TOS mentioned God a couple of times but hey, it was the 60s, they didn't want to piss off middle america.

TNG went full atheist, anything seemingly mystical or supernatural was just a form of life they hadn't encountered yet. Fully dismissed the idea of God a couple times.

DS9 tried to take a more nuanced position. Starfleet is still atheistic but they have to work with a scientifically literate species that still believes in their Gods. Complicating matters is they discover the life forms they worship and they still insist on their divinity.

I think it was an interesting way to address the idea that no matter how much science tells us about the universe, there will be those that accept it but still insist on believing in Gods or creators.

That concept got away from them toward the end where they went full spiritual destiny 'use the magic book to defeat the dark side'

Voyager they pander to Native Americans by writing Chikotay as having a genuine spiritual connection that all NA's share.

>spiritual connection that all NA's share.
Long ago, a Native American woman was fucked by a Betazoid, giving them weak telepathic abilities.

they were still aliens, they even met the original indian aliens in one of the episodes