It’s a brilliant nod to Mormon history, or at least that history as retold in the popular imagination. The Mormon colonists have every hope of making the desert bloom in their eventual destination several generations hence, a distant outpost planet that may not even be habitable. They even outfit the Nauvoo with farm equipment and berths for livestock. The state-of-the-art ship the Mormons create is strangely obsessed with the past, with agricultural murals gracing the walls of the bridge.
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Nauvoo, a portable Eden for the Mormon colonists. Chafing under birth control restrictions on an overpopulated Earth, they are poised to embark on a massive exodus for their people, escaping not only the limitations of enforced family size but also the escalating tensions between Earth and Mars, Earth’s heavily militarized former colony.Įlder McCann explains to Detective Miller the plans for the L.D.S.S. Nauvoo, which they plan to take into the outer reaches of space as a colonist-hauler.
When the series opens, the Mormons of the future are building a colossal ship they call the L.D.S.S. And by the 24 th century, the halcyon age the Mormon characters keep trying to emulate is - you guessed it - the 19th century of the Utah pioneers. Both seem to require Mormons to be unchanging exponents of a bygone era. In other words, the television series and the books it is based on are fascinating cultural products of our own day. What strikes me most about the series’ portrayal of the Latter-day Saints of the future is how similar it is to depictions in the present. Corey (a pen name for two writers collaborating together), I’m not so enthusiastic about the way its Mormons seem frozen in time. While it’s a cheering thought that my religion has survived several hundred years in the imagination of the series creator, James S.
I’ve started reading the books as well, which offer deeper world-building than the television show is able to provide. The writing is strong, the performances even stronger. After several years of hearing about it from like-minded sci-fi nerds and after reading this excellent analysis of the earliest episodes’ Mormon content on “Times and Seasons,” I was intrigued enough to give it a try.
” So if you inadvertently learn something you didn’t want to know, please don’t put me out an airlock. (RNS) - Warning: This column contains a light spoiler for the first four seasons of the SyFy/Amazon series “ The Expanse.
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