Pandemic: The Original Star Trek Series Foretold a Future Biological War

RedState ^ | January 24, 2021 | Stu Cvrk

[CheshireTheCat]

When fiction and reality collide.

[blueunicorn6]

“E planista”

[dinodino]

That was a cool episode...

[ifinnegan]

Talk about starry eyes. These shows were cheesy and dumb. Fun and entertaining, sure, but hardly deep.

Although they are far superior to anything recent.

[wally_bert]

B5 upped the game though.

[Vaquero]

Yeah. E pleb neesta. Which is we the people. The story went off the deep end at that point. Loved Star Trek. Hated a few episodes. That was one I disliked. Space Hippies was another bomb.

[Sirius Lee]

Kirk: "We the People..."

Some dude: "Those are holy words! You shall not speak them."

Kirk: "These words are for everybody! Or they mean nothing. Do you understand?"

[Chad C. Mulligan]

Heinlein postulated genetic warfare in the 1940s.

[Yo-Yo]

Anybody who has watched the original Star Trek series, and also lived in the late 1960s, realize that most of the scenarios acted out in the show were actually commentary on then-current day social issues.

The easy one is the episode Let That Be Your Last Battlefield that was the futility and idiocy of judging one by one's skin color.

Likewise, there was a fear of biological warfare during the Cold War with the Soviets and the Sinos.

[wally_bert]

Herbert!

[Dilbert San Diego]

Yep I remember the episode. The Yangs had the American flag and the US Constitution, and Kirk educated them about what the constitution means.

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

Rewatching Next Generation. Seems like bioweapons are in every other episode.

[SkyDancer]

Look at all those technical devices they used that we use now.

[Vaquero]

“I, am not, Herbert “

[wally_bert]

Me either.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Space Hippies was another bomb.

The third season had a lot of clunkers. It's always interesting and funny to see '60 shows trying to deal with the hippie phenomenon - they'd have some episode where the star or the co-star meets hippies (often with Rob Reiner playing Hippie #1) and magically relates to them, proving that we're all basically the same or something.

[qaz123]

Star Trek ain’t the only one that got it right, oh so long ago.

TV Show Barney Miller 1981 - NWO Exposed!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y19-mirMGs

[wally_bert]

Barney Miller got so much right.

Another favorite was the grad student who built the atom bomb for school but nobody believed it except for Dietrich.

[Olog-hai]

They also foretold no Second Coming of Jesus to Earth, and only one First Coming to an unnamed planet in System 892 in Earth’s 23^rd century.

[White Lives Matter]

Yep! Captain Ron Tracey violated the Prime Directive in a bigly way.