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The Politics of Star Trek
Claremont.org ^ | 08/25/2015 | Timothy Sandefur

Posted on 09/02/2015 5:26:11 AM PDT by DFG

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To: Cincinatus

We reach. And you beat me to it. The life lesson learned is never jam with the pretty girl playing the bicycle rim. It’s always a trick.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q2xyRObL0Xw


41 posted on 09/02/2015 6:38:29 AM PDT by freefdny
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To: DFG
What about the new Star Trek movies with Chris Pine as Kirk?
42 posted on 09/02/2015 6:40:11 AM PDT by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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To: Jonty30

ST Enterprise (The Prequel) was terribly underrated. The series tilted slightly right post 9-11, and touched on a lot of themes toward fighting terrorism. Bakula was my second favorite captain behind Shatner.


43 posted on 09/02/2015 6:40:21 AM PDT by catfish1957 (I display the Confederate Battle Flag with pride in honor of my brave ancestors who fought w/ valor)
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To: ArtDodger

Spock: Jim, it appears to be yet another M3 earth-like planet. Atmosphere and other conditions identical to earth.

Kirk: Of course it’s an M3, you vulcan dope. You know they can’t afford the more elaborate sets and special effects.


44 posted on 09/02/2015 6:42:21 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: catfish1957

In my opinion, Enterprise had a lot of potential, until they introduced time travel. That’s when they lost the series.

They could have done a lot, like showing some of the subtleties of Vulcans or Klingons. I think that would have been popular. I give them props for revealing the dirty tricks the Vulcans played on the Andorians.


45 posted on 09/02/2015 6:42:29 AM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: catfish1957

I too enjoyed ST:Enterprise. It was just getting its feet in its final season. They finally had a good team of writers and had figured out what to do with the series. I hated to see it end.


46 posted on 09/02/2015 6:43:08 AM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: Jonty30
In my opinion, Enterprise had a lot of potential, until they introduced time travel. That’s when they lost the series.

All of the series used the concept of time travel, but you are right, the way they use that aspect fouled the series on that turn.

47 posted on 09/02/2015 6:45:05 AM PDT by catfish1957 (I display the Confederate Battle Flag with pride in honor of my brave ancestors who fought w/ valor)
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To: freefdny

Re: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q2xyRObL0Xw

Lol!


48 posted on 09/02/2015 6:45:59 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: Cincinatus

Whether it was the writer’s intention it not, that episode was a perfect a analogy to a cold, lifeless Communist dictatorship. Landru was not a god, but a cult of personality, just like fat boy in North Korea.


49 posted on 09/02/2015 6:46:33 AM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: CitizenUSA
"That said, at least they didn’t have Janeway—the worst captain in Trek history!"

She is in prison now, wearing the 'new black.'

50 posted on 09/02/2015 6:50:24 AM PDT by Radix ("..Democrats are holding a meeting today to decide whether to overturn the results of the election.")
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To: SoCal Pubbie

E PLEBNISTA!


51 posted on 09/02/2015 6:50:55 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: GreyFriar
I hated to see it end.

I agree, I wished the series had focused on tying a loose ends between 2155 - 2245 rather than jacking with space-time continum.

Seeing T'Pol in her cat suit? :)

52 posted on 09/02/2015 6:51:33 AM PDT by catfish1957 (I display the Confederate Battle Flag with pride in honor of my brave ancestors who fought w/ valor)
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To: SoCal Pubbie

The Landru society, I think was ST’s version of Christianity. “The body” was the clue for me. I love TOS, but I think this one is glaringly obvious. Roddenberry was no Christian.


53 posted on 09/02/2015 6:52:19 AM PDT by freepertoo
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To: DFG

A very interesting article, especially for Star Trek fans.


54 posted on 09/02/2015 6:52:55 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, & R)
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To: Radix
She is in prison now, wearing the 'new black.'

She's a lot more believable as a Russian prison gangster than a star ship captain..

55 posted on 09/02/2015 6:53:31 AM PDT by catfish1957 (I display the Confederate Battle Flag with pride in honor of my brave ancestors who fought w/ valor)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
That depends on how you define liberalism.

To a old liberal (pre-1960) the liberals of today would be considered commie anarchists.

56 posted on 09/02/2015 6:55:35 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, & R)
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To: freefdny; Cincinatus
We reach...The life lesson learned is never jam with the pretty girl playing the bicycle rim. It’s always a trick.

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57 posted on 09/02/2015 6:56:06 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: DFG

58 posted on 09/02/2015 6:57:33 AM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
That depends on how you define liberalism.

To an old liberal (pre-1960) the liberals of today would be considered dangerously naive commie anarchists.

59 posted on 09/02/2015 7:02:47 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, & R)
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To: freepertoo
That likely was the intent, but I see Landru more like Mao than Jesus, the hooded minions more like Red Guards that church deacons, and the Body more like The Dictatorship of the Proletariat than a congregation.
60 posted on 09/02/2015 7:05:22 AM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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