If – as a fan of Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda – you have
harbored a preconceived notion that Friedrich Nietzsche was a thrill-seeker
ahead of his time, but did Nietzsche lived a rather dull and boring life?
By: Ringo Bones
Maybe blame should be placed at that allegedly historically
accurate biopic of Friedrich Nietzsche titled: “When Nietzsche Wept” that stars
Armand Assante as Friedrich Nietzsche as a “melancholic” – as in someone who
suffers from clinical depression - guy always checking himself into the nearest
mental asylums whenever he feels blue. Sadly, this supposedly historically
accurate version of Nietzsche seems to be largely ignored by a very large
majority of today’s science fiction fans, especially fans of Gene Roddenberry
But are ignoring this model of a “bland and boring Friedrich Nietzsche” at our
own intellectual peril?
Fans of Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda had always harbored
this preconceived notion that Friedrich Nietzsche was an avid thrill-seeker way
ahead of his time and very much into the extreme sports of his day as based on
how the Nietzscheans in the sci-fi TV series so often much behaved. But for
better or for worse, are our intellectual selves be better off with a bland and
boring version of Friedrich Nietzsche whose existentialist insights is probably
the most “thrilling” aspect of the famed philosopher’s life?
