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Odysseus comments on In memory of Leonard Nimoy, most famous for playing the (straw) rationalist Spock, what are your top 3 ST:TOS episodes with him? - Less Wrong Discussion
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City On The Edge Of Forever: Spock uses primitive technology to construct a machine to access the information stored in his tricorder. Genius is genius regardless of surroundings...
The Empath: Spock has the flash of insight that his own resistance to the energy field is what is empowering it.
The Galileo Seven: When all hope is lost Spock chooses to bet all on a desperate act, he jettisons all the remaining fuel to signal the Enterprise, knowing having done so within seconds the shuttlecraft will spiral into the atmosphere and burn up
In Galileo Seven Spock also says something like, "I, for one, do not believe in angels," indicating his skepticism about an afterlife. Does that make Spock the first (implicitly) atheistic character on a network TV series?
Beats me. I'd guess Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, Dr. Who or some other show snuck the concept in somewhere.
The Twilight Zone has more of a religious look-and-feel to it, with allusions to biblical stories and folk christian beliefs. One episode even features a christian martyrdom without once mentioning Jesus.