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William Shatner Levels Government Censors Trying to Ban Iconic 'Star Trek' Line
Western Journal ^ | January 29, 2024 | Warner Todd Huston

Posted on 01/29/2024 3:28:56 PM PST by lowbridge

The European Union has just run crosswise with Captain James T. Kirk, and by any measure the Captain is right to blast Europe’s left-wing, nanny state, cancel culture, loons for their latest “diversity” move.

This week, news broke that the EU — which apparently stands for Entirely Useless — is looking to make the world safe from evil “gendered” words, like man, male, guys, and anything testosterone related, The Telegraph reported.

This impinges directly on one of Captain Kirk’s most famous lines, the one that serves as the opening monologue to the famed 1966 series, “Star Trek.”

TV viewers and sci fi fans everywhere will recall that the iconic TV series starts out with views of the Starship Enterprise zooming across the screen as Captain Kirk intones “Space, the final frontier,” and ends his soliloquy with “to boldly go where no man has gone before.”

But the EU is suddenly all shook up over that evil word “man” and is now sending out its royal edict that the word should henceforth be banned from use.

According to the Telegraph, “The classic ”Star Trek’ line, ‘To boldly go where no man has gone before,’ is also cited as an example where ‘women may be subject to invisibility or omission.'”

William Shatner, who briefly actually reached space during a Blue Origin flight in 2021, is the man who so ably portrayed Captain James T. Kirk, and he is not amused.

With news of the new authoritarian mandate, Shatner, who often blasts the childish, left-wing, social justice warrior trolls online, jumped to his X account to blast the legislators.

“Presentism at work yet again,” he said in his Monday post.

“Why start at Trek? Isn’t it better to start at the beginning and redo foundation material such as the Magna Carta, religious writings,

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To: Semper Vigilantis

LOL !!! My sister, during college, had to do an internship as a medical technician at the local university hospital. Every Friday night they would have someone come in with something ( gerbil, lightbulb, christmas lights ( holiday season ) bottles, vegetables, vibrators , etc.. )


101 posted on 01/30/2024 6:58:06 PM PST by TheCipher ( RINO politicians in DC are the only reptiles in the world with no backbone)
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“Higher education” like that needs to be shut down and the space used for homeless shelters.

The two are related, as the former fosters and perpetuates the latter, as an integral means of obtaining and maintaining the power which they (as proxy servants of the devil who lusts for it) crave.

The Big Picture: who is really running the show in the culture war, and its nature and trajectory

102 posted on 01/31/2024 6:25:43 AM PST by daniel1212 (Turn 2 the Lord Jesus who saves damned+destitute sinners on His acct, believe, b baptized+follow HIM)
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