“E planista”
That was a cool episode...
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.
Some dude: "Those are holy words! You shall not speak them."
Kirk: "These words are for everybody! Or they mean nothing. Do you understand?"
Heinlein postulated genetic warfare in the 1940s.
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.
Rewatching Next Generation. Seems like bioweapons are in every other episode.
Look at all those technical devices they used that we use now.
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
You know it had some Kirk DNA in it
“’Freedom’ is Yang holy word, you will not speak it!”
A hidden element to ST:TOS is that it was a “transition” show (after the big transition of black and white to color. All ST:TOS were in color) In this case, it was the transition from stage acting to TV studio acting.
The actors on the show were all experienced theater performers, and were used to being shuttled between TV show productions of the time. You can see this in the overuse of makeup and emotive “stage voice” dialogue.
After the series ended, you started to see actors who had never performed on stage more and more in TV shows.
Virologists on an Earth-like planet (actually, an "identical Earth" - don't worry, the plotline is instantly dropped and no further explanation ever given) accidentally release an engineered pathogen (called "Vocid-91" if I remember correctly) into the planet's environment, immediately wiping out the entire planet's adult population.
A landing party from the Enterprise beams down - but sadly forgets all about facemasks and social distancing, and so is promptly infected.
Regards,
https://youtu.be/3bYkNptOJns
E Pleb Neesta speech from the episode.
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.
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.