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I Can’t Stand Gene Roddenberry
The Freehold ^ | August 19, 2012 | Jonathan David Baird

Posted on 08/19/2012 3:56:19 PM PDT by EveningStar

Sorry to all you Star Trek fans out there. I may be the only science fiction fan in the universe that really hates his guts. He stands in the annals of history with Karl Marx as one of the most vile perpetrators of socialism and communism this planet has ever known. I call him the used philosophy salesman…. and he was good at that job, one of the best.

Today is the anniversary of his birth and I have been constantly reminded of this all morning. Tributes everywhere I look to the man who turned the brains of a generation of science fiction fans to utter mush. If only he had passed on ten years earlier. We would never have had to put up with the inane techno-babble ramblings and neo-communist preaching of the Next Generation.

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TOPICS: Politics; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: generoddenberry; hollywood; jonathandavidbaird; roddenberry; sciencefiction; scifi; socialism; startrek; thefreehold
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To: Lazamataz

Transporter works because of the invention of the Heisenberg compensator. And yes I’m ‘certain’.

And I’m not a nerd but I play one on TV


161 posted on 08/20/2012 4:25:54 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: GraceG; All

I may have been a bit harsh of DS9, but by then I was beginning to suffer Trek Fatigue... However, the episode Past Tense was the worst of all Star Trek shows.


162 posted on 08/20/2012 5:12:39 AM PDT by KevinDavis (Romney / Ryan 2012)
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To: EveningStar

He’s dead Jim.


163 posted on 08/20/2012 5:19:21 AM PDT by usmcobra (Happiness is a belt fed weapon.)
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To: Rebelbase

Hear! Hear!

And damn straight.


164 posted on 08/20/2012 5:31:12 AM PDT by Lee'sGhost (Johnny Rico picked the wrong girl!)
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To: Vaquero
Heisenberg compensator

Aw hell, why not? Let's break EVERY law of physics. ;)

165 posted on 08/20/2012 6:01:50 AM PDT by Lazamataz (I love the Universe, and it loves me.)
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To: Bender2
Get to point, Bender. I've a date with a Doomsday Machine

DONT YOU THINK I KNOW THAT?

166 posted on 08/20/2012 6:51:59 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: EveningStar
All (good) military groups MUST function as ethical totalitarian socialists organizations. They don't have time or energy to be democratic.

(Ok, let's vote on this attack plan... all in favor raise your hand.."

Our military today is a socialist organization. As it should be. Medical care is free, housing is provided, orders are 'given' not 'voted on'. Think about it - it has to be that way ... That's NOT to say Roddneberry didn't screw up trying to apply those totally workable ideas for a military to civilian situations ( where they become unworkable) - even if it was fiction.

167 posted on 08/20/2012 7:47:40 AM PDT by GOPJ (Politics is war without bloodshed, and war is politics with bloodshed. - Mao Tse Tung. We're at war)
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To: KevinDavis
All (good) military groups MUST function as ethical totalitarian socialists organizations. They don't have time or energy to be democratic.

(Ok, let's vote on this attack plan... all in favor raise your hand..") - Not gonna happen - not ever.

Our military today is a socialist organization. As it should be. Medical care is free, housing is provided, orders are 'given' not 'voted on'. Think about it - it has to be that way ... That's NOT to say Roddneberry didn't screw up trying to apply those totally workable ideas for a military to civilian situations ( where they become unworkable) - even if it was fiction.

168 posted on 08/20/2012 7:49:01 AM PDT by GOPJ (Politics is war without bloodshed, and war is politics with bloodshed. - Mao Tse Tung. We're at war)
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To: Vaquero
Well, you see, Vaquero, it started when I owed Doc... this 600 dollars--

Wrap it up, Bill... your doomsday machine awaits.

169 posted on 08/20/2012 9:22:06 AM PDT by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: Mad Dawgg

You forgot T’Pol from “Enterprise”

7 of 9 helped give us Obama. (Yeah, her ex-hubby is a scum sucking douche, but still)


170 posted on 08/20/2012 10:13:00 AM PDT by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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To: Bratch
Enterprise is underrated, IMO. Especially the latter years.

Agree.. The Xindi arc was good entertainment.

I like Enterprise better than all the other Trek series

171 posted on 08/20/2012 10:21:24 AM PDT by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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To: elteemike
"Give Heinlein a try."

Or Jack Vance.

172 posted on 08/20/2012 10:28:09 AM PDT by GSWarrior (Businessmen are more trustworthy than professors, politicians and preachers.)
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To: Bender2

That’s some funny stuff there Bender. Thanks for the chuckle.


173 posted on 08/20/2012 10:44:38 AM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: DManA

174 posted on 08/20/2012 10:52:03 AM PDT by Bratch
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To: EveningStar

Rodenberry said there was no cash in the future but the IDIC pin was created as a merchandising ploy.

The series was better the LESS he was involved.

Gean Koon (sp?) was what made the series tick.

PC kept trying to destroy the series.


175 posted on 08/20/2012 11:02:41 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Bratch

Yep


176 posted on 08/20/2012 11:22:56 AM PDT by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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To: Mad Dawgg; rockrr; Allegra; big'ol_freeper; Lil'freeper; TrueKnightGalahad; blackie; ...
Re:

Gadzooks-- What a waste... and I'm throwing away the receipt of our wild weekend on Risa!

177 posted on 08/20/2012 1:04:02 PM PDT by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Even in the original Star Trek, in Starfleet you earned “credits” and “spent” them.


178 posted on 08/20/2012 1:08:13 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Democrats are dangerous and evil. Republicans are useless and useful idiots.)
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To: Museum Twenty

Galaxy Quest ping!


179 posted on 08/20/2012 1:11:07 PM PDT by yuleeyahoo (Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty. - Calvin Coolidge)
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To: EveningStar
"Sorry to all you Star Trek fans out there. I may be the only science fiction fan in the universe that really hates his guts. He stands in the annals of history with Karl Marx as one of the most vile perpetrators of socialism and communism this planet has ever known. I call him the used philosophy salesman…. and he was good at that job, one of the best. "

No, sir, you are not the only person in the universe who despises Roddenberry's marxist utopian fantasy and I make no apologies. I despise him and his cultist followers. Bunch of marxist nitwits. That's redundant--the two seem to go hand in hand--marxism and nitwittery.

It was people like him who called Robert A. Heinlein a fascist because he dared to claim that people who had never served their fellow man in any capacity and who were unwilling to risk their own safety did not deserve citizenship.

After creating his utopian vision of our future, Roddenberry was forever uncomfortable with the militaristic nature of Star Fleet, which is why we got those freakish pajama outfits in Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

And he also issued that remarkably stupid statement that "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few--or the one." My ass. That's marxist-speak for their disdain for individual liberty.

Firefly is where it's at.

180 posted on 08/20/2012 2:29:48 PM PDT by ronnyquest (I spent 20 years in the Army fighting the enemies of freedom only to see marxism elected at home.)
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