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Captain Kirk & the United States Constitution
Original Star Trek ^

Posted on 07/04/2025 10:52:18 AM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III

The Fourth of the July, in a galaxy far, far away.

Captain Kirk & the United States Constitution


TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: constitution; hamandcheese; startrektos
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This is from one of the best original Star Trek episodes: The Omega Glory.

Glorious, indeed.

1 posted on 07/04/2025 10:52:18 AM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III
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To: Ronaldus Magnus III

Yep...the Sacred Words.


2 posted on 07/04/2025 11:04:28 AM PDT by left that other site (You Shall Know The Truth, and The Truth Shall Make You Free.)
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To: Ronaldus Magnus III

The Yangs vs. the Kohms!


3 posted on 07/04/2025 11:09:02 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Ronaldus Magnus III

Captain James T. Kirk: Among my people, we carry many such words as this from many lands, many worlds. Many are equally good and are as well respected, but wherever we have gone, no words have said this thing of importance in quite this way. Look at these three words written larger than the rest, with a special pride never written before, or since, tall words proudly saying, “We the People”. That which you call Ee’d Plebnista, was not written for the chiefs of kings, or the warriors or the rich or the powerful, but for ALL the people! Down the centuries, you have slurred the meaning of the words, “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty, to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution”. These words and the words that follow, were not written only for the Yangs, but for the Kohms as well! They must apply to everyone, or they mean nothing!

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708474/quotes/?ref_=tt_ov_at_dyk_qu


4 posted on 07/04/2025 11:09:26 AM PDT by DFG
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To: Ronaldus Magnus III

Excellent! Thank you.


5 posted on 07/04/2025 11:09:28 AM PDT by KingLudd
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To: Ronaldus Magnus III

Mr. Spock: Does our involvement here also constitute a violation of the Prime Directive?

Captain James T. Kirk: We merely showed them the... meaning of what they were fighting for. Liberty and freedom have to be more than just words. Gentlemen, the fighting is over here. I suggest we leave them to discover their history - and their liberty.


6 posted on 07/04/2025 11:14:02 AM PDT by DFG
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To: PGR88

William Shatner is Canadian. How intereting


7 posted on 07/04/2025 11:15:05 AM PDT by BigEdLB (Schiff to GITMO)
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To: Ronaldus Magnus III

The real Star Trek.


8 posted on 07/04/2025 11:15:58 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Ronaldus Magnus III

Good one.

Would have helped it he’d begun with the Declaration of Independence which is the legal premise, precedent, and foundation of the Constitution.


9 posted on 07/04/2025 11:19:07 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Ronaldus Magnus III

Eee pleb Neesto


10 posted on 07/04/2025 11:26:34 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: BigEdLB

Yes, but Captian Kirk is pure, Ref, White and Blue.


11 posted on 07/04/2025 11:31:49 AM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO ODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: BigEdLB

Yes, but Captian Kirk is pure, Ref, White and Blue.


12 posted on 07/04/2025 11:32:46 AM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO ODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: Ronaldus Magnus III

Nothing like a good ass-Kirking on the 4th of July!


13 posted on 07/04/2025 11:33:37 AM PDT by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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To: Ronaldus Magnus III

I posted it on Mamdanis Twitter. Maybe him and his followers will learn something

https://x.com/Hilary4prison6/status/1941203338361803261


14 posted on 07/04/2025 11:33:42 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: DFG

Very interesting episode.


15 posted on 07/04/2025 11:37:48 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: Ronaldus Magnus III

I’ll never forget that episode.


16 posted on 07/04/2025 11:48:56 AM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: BigEdLB

There was a TV series called, “Twelve O’clock High”, and their music was later used for Star Trek. And guess who had a guest appearance as a B17 bomber pilot? A young William Shatner.


17 posted on 07/04/2025 11:54:06 AM PDT by Dogbert41 (“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God” -Matthew 5:9)
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To: Dogbert41

“That is Yang worship word! You shall not speak it!”


18 posted on 07/04/2025 12:31:28 PM PDT by TheConservator
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Kind of funny - I remember one constitutional scholar noting that people who can't find support for their legal arguments in the actual terms of the Constitution and subsequent amendments, commonly quote the preamble...

;^)

19 posted on 07/04/2025 12:34:14 PM PDT by Who is John Galt? ("...mit Pulver und Blei, Die Gedanken sind frei!")
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To: Ronaldus Magnus III

A Canadian actor portraying a character from a post-nationalist future, getting choked up over the American Idea. But I liked it.


20 posted on 07/04/2025 12:36:26 PM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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