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

RedState ^ | January 24, 2021 | Stu Cvrk

[SkyDancer]

Guess I did; what scene(s) was it used in?

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

That sort of goes to the third overlap of exclusively movie acting.

Stage actors have to memorize the entire play (I was amazed at some high school drama kids who had memorized entire Shakespeare plays.)

Since movie actors rarely shoot scenes in order, they need a continuity person to arrange scenes and coach actors on what has happened and is going to happen before and after the scene, and how to emote the lines for that scene. Plus costume and makeup changes.

TV actors do more scene fragments, different camera angles and focus. Like in movies, sometimes they will only shoot some of the actors bits, and do other actors bits later in the same set.

[normbal]

Rudyard Kipling wrote a very prescient short story around 1912, “As Easy as ABC”.

IIRC - and I may be overplaying what I seem to recall as a subplot to the story as main theme - the Aerial Board of Control was founded ostensibly, to prevent the spread of infectious diseases from groups isolated/cordoned off into cities and regions controlled by the global(ist) government.

Little pandemic here, little mask mandate there, little shelter in place and lockdown there and drone and satellite control of movements, voila, globalism.

Easy as A.B.C.

[RainMan]

Murder by Numbers
The Police


Once that you've decided on a killing
First you make a stone of your heart
And if you find that your hands are still willing
Then you can turn a murder into art

There really isn't any need for bloodshed
You just do it with a little more finesse
If you can slip a tablet into someone's coffee
Then it avoids an awful lot of mess

It's murder by numbers, one, two, three
It's as easy to learn as your ABC's
It's murder by numbers, one, two, three
It's as easy to learn as your ABC's

Now if you have a taste for this experience
If you're flushed with your very first success
Then you must try a twosome or a threesome
You'll find your conscience bothers you much less

Because murder is like anything you take to
It's a habit-forming need for more and more
You can bump off every member of your family
And anybody else you find a bore

Because it's murder by numbers, one, two, three
It's as easy to learn as your ABC's
Murder by numbers, one, two, three
It's as easy to learn as your ABC's

Now you can join the ranks of the illustrious
In history's great dark hall of fame
All our greatest killers were industrious
At least the ones that we all know by name

But you can reach the top of your profession
If you become the leader of the land
For murder is the sport of the elected
And you don't need to lift a finger of your hand

Because it's murder by numbers, one, two, three
It's as easy to learn as your ABC's
Murder by numbers, one, two, three
It's as easy to learn as your A, B, C, D, E
1, 2, 3, A, B, C
1, 2, 3, A, B, C
1, 2, 3, A, B, C

Because it's murder by numbers, one, two, three
It's as easy to learn as your ABC
Murder by numbers, one, two, three
It's as easy to learn as your A, B, C, D, E

[Antihero101607]

Any Freepers who are DS9 fans might remember that the Bell Riots are due to happen in September 2024, when the government decides to intern a lot of San Francisco’s homeless residents within a couple of city blocks.

Original series, and Enterprise fans can look forward to eugenics and genetic engineering bringing us a warlord like Kahn Noonian Singh.

[FatherofFive]

Guess I did; what scene(s) was it used in?

Yoeman Janice would bring Kirk an iPad most episodes. He'd look at it and sign it. Interesting, in TNG the only paper you saw was a book.

[freefdny]

We reach.