Posted on 06/17/2009 9:13:25 AM PDT by Redcloak
GM's recent bankruptcy seemed inevitable to longtime followers of the auto industry. But Barry Ritholtz, CEO of Fusion IQ, believes it could have been avoided.
In his recent book, Bailout Nation, Ritholtz recalls an episode of the classic TV series Star Trek, "Mirror Mirror", in which Captain Kirk finds himself in an universe where everything has been altered ever so slightly.
Applying this concept to Detroit, Ritholtz asks: What would have happened if Chrysler hadn't been bailed out in 1979?
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Our Spock sports a beard!
What was the one where Kirk is split into two different guys by a teleporter accident?
“What was the one where Kirk is split into two different guys by a teleporter accident?”
Obama has experienced that. He thanked himself in a telepromter accident.
“Mirror, Mirror” was written by the late, great Jerome Bixby, author of the best scifi short story of the 20th century, “It’s a GOOD Life.”
That was “The Enemy Within”. One of my favorites.
Incidentally, “Mirror, Mirror” is consistently on the list of Star Trek fans’ Favority Episodes. In fact, IIRC, it usually tops such lists.
Regards,
“Star Trek Enterprise” had a “Miror, Miror” episode, I wonder why TNG didn’t.
Not only did Mopar get the FedGov bucs, the FedGov pushed thru massive cutbacks/limits on Jap imports, so they switched to luxury cars for imports.
Remember the inexpensive Datsun/Toyotas pickups?
Remember the inexpensive cars?
Some say the SUV was invented by the Jap auto industry to get around auto quotas....
As far as TOS Trekies - like the ‘new’ ST?
I can't even discuss the whole 0bama/GM/Chrysler mess without my blood pressure approaching Warp 9.
No. That one was called "The Enemy Within".
But they did. There was an episode with the Enterprise-C (can’t remember the title). In that episode, because the Enterprise C falls through a hole to the time of the Enterprise-D, it isn’t around to save the Klingons at some conference. As a result, the D’s time is changed. The Federation is no longer a “UN in Space”, but rather something closer to the Klingon Empire. And Tasha Yar didn’t die. She actually ends up going back with the Enterprise-C to the past, since she was supposed to be dead anyway, and becomes the mother to a half-romulan version of herself that comes back later to trouble the Enterprise-D.
/Nerd
Mirror universe? Cool! We could shove the Gitmo inmates into the agony booth!
This "government" is truly composed of barbarians trying to pass themselves off as civilized men, and in this crazy parallel universe, we are all under the ACORN Empire because of the worst decision in American history: Failure to execute all domestic communists immediately upon discovery.
Now, we're all in the Agony Booth.
Mirror, Mirror was about my favorite. There were some amazing science fiction authors who penned some of the episodes: Richard Matheson, Theodore Sturgeon, Jerome Bixby, just a few off the top of my head.
That was “Yesterday’s Empire”. The “Mirror, Mirror” episode had it was the Imperial Starship Enterprise part of Terran Empire. The on in YE TNG was not.
Kennedy might have taken the nomination away from him in 1980. Maybe there would have been a three- or four-way presidential race that year with Carter as an independent.
Or perhaps with Carter opposing the bailout, Detroit would have thrown itself behind a Republican who would give them what they wanted. If they lined up behind Connolly or GHW Bush, would this have made trouble for Reagan?
which led to this:
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