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Star Trek illustrates perfectly: In the war between savages and civilized man... You know the rest.
Youtube ^ | 9/28/13 | Gene Roddenberry

Posted on 09/28/2013 7:36:55 PM PDT by HMS Surprise

The Star Trek episode Mirror Mirror illustrates the problem with cultures that solve their problems with violence... perfectly.


TOPICS: History; Religion; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: christian; civilized; islamism; sciencefiction; scifi; startrek
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This is the world today in a 50 minutes, 30 seconds.
1 posted on 09/28/2013 7:36:55 PM PDT by HMS Surprise
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To: HMS Surprise
I have loved STAR TREK from the very first year, 1966 or so.

Probably always will. Geez, when I die I will MISS the future STAR TREK shows. Dang.

2 posted on 09/28/2013 7:39:25 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: Borges; DollyCali; Perdogg

ping


3 posted on 09/28/2013 7:42:03 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: HMS Surprise

4 posted on 09/28/2013 7:46:15 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can't invade the mainland US There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: HMS Surprise
What's interesting is that bearded Spock's logic "fits in" so easily in the evil universe as it does the good universe.

There is some fan fiction that takes this episode and extrapolates what happens when evil Spock "considers" Kirk's proposition, and acts on it.

Let's just say that it doesn't end well for bearded Spock.

The evil empire prevails.

This is one of my favorite episodes. But it also depresses me.

It's hard to think of Spock doing rotten things, but for "logical" reasons.

5 posted on 09/28/2013 7:47:28 PM PDT by boop ("You don't look so bad, here's another")
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To: HMS Surprise; GraceG
Death....Disease....Destruction Horror, That is war is councilman, that is what makes it a thing to be avoided.

You have made it neat and simple, so neat and simple, that you have had no reason to stop it.

And You've had it for 500 Years!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKmUd0zHW4w

6 posted on 09/28/2013 7:52:18 PM PDT by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
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To: HMS Surprise

The unanswered question in that episode is “What would you do if you had a Tantalus field device?”


7 posted on 09/28/2013 8:03:48 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (The best War on Terror News is at rantburg.com)
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To: EveningStar; Aevery_Freeman; ShadowAce; Jack Hydrazine; Altariel; nuancey; Thorliveshere; ...

Barbara Luna = hot.


8 posted on 09/28/2013 8:05:36 PM PDT by Perdogg (Ted Cruz-Rand Paul 2016)
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To: KC_Lion

That’s a good episode, gotta love General Order 24. I always liked the episodes where Scotty got to command.


9 posted on 09/28/2013 8:18:03 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: HMS Surprise
My favorite alternate Star Trek reality:


10 posted on 09/28/2013 8:19:03 PM PDT by FredZarguna (With bell, book, and candle, please.)
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To: HMS Surprise

BUMP for Morning Coffee. Goodnight! :)


11 posted on 09/28/2013 8:25:17 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: HMS Surprise
Uhura was good, but when she was bad, she was better.


12 posted on 09/28/2013 8:25:50 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: cloudmountain

I feel ya, cloud!


13 posted on 09/28/2013 8:47:03 PM PDT by jodyel
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To: FredZarguna

It also wins the award for most creative use of castoff props from a WW2 movie.


14 posted on 09/28/2013 8:51:45 PM PDT by Campion ("Social justice" begins in the womb)
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To: HMS Surprise

The “Mirror, Mirror” episode always makes me ponder analogies to America, in which some strange point in time, the country I knew and loved disappeared in a wink, to be replaced by an ugly, vomitous, alternate-universe America, in which everything from values to morals has been turned totally upside-down.

And to add an even more depressing footnote, I didn’t even get a sexy Barbara Luna out of the deal.


15 posted on 09/28/2013 9:25:32 PM PDT by greene66
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To: HMS Surprise

How has this not been removed by YouTube?


16 posted on 09/28/2013 10:39:07 PM PDT by montag813 (NO AMNESTY * ENFORCE THE LAW * http://StandWithArizona.com)
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To: montag813

good question, I thought the CBS website was the only place to watch the full episodes.


17 posted on 09/28/2013 10:41:56 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: Charles Martel
That’s a good episode, gotta love General Order 24. I always liked the episodes where Scotty got to command.

It also gave us one of Scotty's best-ever lines (in response to the weasely Ambassador):
"The best diplomat I know is a fully-activated phaser bank."

18 posted on 09/28/2013 10:42:05 PM PDT by montag813 (NO AMNESTY * ENFORCE THE LAW * http://StandWithArizona.com)
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To: Perdogg
Barbara Luna = hot.

 

19 posted on 09/28/2013 10:45:03 PM PDT by montag813 (NO AMNESTY * ENFORCE THE LAW * http://StandWithArizona.com)
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To: KC_Lion; OneWingedShark; Perdogg

“subtly altered”

That was subtle??

lol


20 posted on 09/28/2013 11:10:21 PM PDT by GeronL
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