WORDS OF WISDOM ON IRAQ FROM CAPTAIN KIRK AND MR. SPOCK

Jewsweek Magazine ^ | 11-10-02 | Dr. Richard Benkin

[SJackson]

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[Kerberos]

"I remember one in particular that finds Kirk, Spock, and McCoy in Depression-era America, where they traveled to encounter none other than Joan Collins. "

The City on the Edge of Forever, my all-time favorite Star Trek episode. Moreover, it does greatly highlight the fallacy and danger of peace activism.

[buccaneer81]

It is very cold in space...

[weikel]

I get the point but part of the premise of that episode was faulty Heisenberg so overcalculated(not intentionally he really was trying to build one) the critical mass for an A Bomb that Germany wouldn't have gotten one for a long time.

[strela]

Star Trek - The Movie(?)

Better known as "Star Trek - The Motion(less) Picture."

[Skooz]

Agreed. I was totally stoned when I saw it and it was STILL too boring for words.

[Ukiapah Heep]

We come in peace. Put your phasers on kill.

[finnman69]

Fascinating.

[Dajjal]

It is quite logical.

[SevenofNine]

YEAH LOVE THIS Thread

RACK ITTTT

There is old Vulcan saying

Only Nixon can go to China

[strela]

"Very funny, Scotty. Now beam down my clothes!"

[drjoe]

"I get the point but part of the premise of that episode was faulty Heisenberg so overcalculated(not intentionally he really was trying to build one) the critical mass for an A Bomb that Germany wouldn't have gotten one for a long time."

I don't think that this is so. The critical miscalculation on the part of the German's was the calculation of the neutron absorption cross section of carbon. As a result of this miscalculation, by a German physicist [Walther Bothe], the Germans eliminated carbon as a moderator in their piles and resorted to the use of heavy water. When the Norwegian source of heavy water was eliminated by covert action by British forces the German's program was irredeemably crippled and the jig was up. Richard Rhodes' "The Making of the Atomic Bomb" spells this out in detail.

[Chemist_Geek]

Live long and prosper: It's a good thing!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH! (runs and cowers in terror)

[SandfleaCSC]

"Are you out of your Vulcan mind?"

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

Yes, we can learn a great deal from Star Trek. Many voyages of the starship Enterprise were metaphors for the great moral and political struggles of our time

Lay off the BEAM and COKES

[SevenofNine]

OHHH I forgot about that one LOLOLOLOL!

YEAHHH

Okay how about for another

That green blooded SOB

This is his revenge for all arguements he lost

I try remember that line from Star Trek Motion picture

Something about

They drafted me

[SevenofNine]

Hey Atomic how about

Damn it Jim I'm a doctor put your line in it after that LOLOLOL!

OH BOY

Do you think we Freepers watch wayyyyy too many sci-fi shows as Kids

YOU THINK

[NEWwoman]

I loved the old Star Trek. I first saw the Joan Collins episode as a child and cried when she had to die. Yet, the lesson was so prophetic.

The old Star Trek was ahead of its time yet really had some old fashion American values. The other p.c. Star Treks don't measure up.

[SandfleaCSC]

Yup..I like that one. My all time favorite has to be the Ferengi Rule of Aquisition #192.

"Never cheat a Klingon ... unless you're sure you can get away with it. "