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The Politics of Star Trek
Claremont.org ^ | 08/25/2015 | Timothy Sandefur

Posted on 09/02/2015 5:26:11 AM PDT by DFG

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To: ladyrustic

You never seen Baseball Hall of famer pitcher get kiss from Capt Janaway right LOL!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fah_ntVXoaw


81 posted on 09/02/2015 8:31:40 AM PDT by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: IYAS9YAS

I remember reading the article in the late 60s.


82 posted on 09/02/2015 8:43:45 AM PDT by ArtDodger
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To: Bratch

More like Paladin in ‘Have gun Will travel’... a series Roddenberry also wrote for...


83 posted on 09/02/2015 8:51:09 AM PDT by GOPJ (Immigration, World Poverty and Gumballs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPjzfGChGlE)
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To: Bratch

More like Paladin in ‘Have gun Will travel’... a series Roddenberry also wrote for...


84 posted on 09/02/2015 8:51:25 AM PDT by GOPJ (Immigration, World Poverty and Gumballs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPjzfGChGlE)
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To: DFG

Bump


85 posted on 09/02/2015 8:51:39 AM PDT by TheRobb7 ("Patriots don't negotiate the terms of their enslavement"--JimRob)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

It wasn’t even non-violence, it was non-conflict. He didn’t even want disagreements among the bridge crew. Which really killed the drama (conflict is the source of all drama). They never really go to shoot-em ups, but they at least got to start having the crew have multiple opinions.


86 posted on 09/02/2015 8:55:28 AM PDT by discostu (It always comes down to cortexiphan)
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To: Zionist Conspirator
The difference is FDR was willing to stand up to tyrany and use force if necessary in defense of freedom and what he believed to be a morally superior form of government.

The liberals of today believe there are no moral absolutes and that force should never be used, even force to defend ones country, freedom or even life. And that Capitalism is the true evil infecting this world along with the evil white colonialist.

87 posted on 09/02/2015 8:59:12 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, & R)
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To: Jonty30

The final season of Enterprise, after they finished all the silliness of the temporal cold war, is really when they clocked in. It finally really became a prequel to TOS, stopped introducing races we’ve never seen after (before? whatever) and started building the federation. Then it got canceled and Braga handed in the worst final episode ever. But until then it was really good.


88 posted on 09/02/2015 9:02:30 AM PDT by discostu (It always comes down to cortexiphan)
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To: TexasFreeper2009
The difference is FDR was willing to stand up to tyrany and use force if necessary in defense of freedom and what he believed to be a morally superior form of government.

The liberals of today believe there are no moral absolutes and that force should never be used, even force to defend ones country, freedom or even life. And that Capitalism is the true evil infecting this world along with the evil white colonialist.

You're not understanding me. I'm expressing my dismay at the fact that the older liberals have gone along with the new left nihilist crowd every step of the way and have now become new left nihilists themselves. Where were Humphrey or Symington or Scoop Jackson or any of those people while all this was going on? They went along with the redefinition of liberalism completely. Just look at Bobby Kennedy--from Cold War liberal to hippie Communist in just two years!!!

I illustrated this frustration of mine by conjuring up the image of a 133 year old FDR "marching" at the head of a pro-bestiality parade. Do you get it now?

89 posted on 09/02/2015 9:06:32 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (The "end of history" will be Worldwide Judaic Theocracy.)
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To: Zionist Conspirator
Got cha!

In hindsight all the warnings about “slippy slopes” appear to have been right when it came to liberal ideology.

I am guessing if you ignored all the racial hatred in a typical KKK speech from the first half of the 20th century that they were very prophetic in what they said would happen.

90 posted on 09/02/2015 9:10:08 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, & R)
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To: TexasFreeper2009
Got cha!

In hindsight all the warnings about “slippy slopes” appear to have been right when it came to liberal ideology.

Finally! (I forgot to mention Muskie.)

I am guessing if you ignored all the racial hatred in a typical KKK speech from the first half of the 20th century that they were very prophetic in what they said would happen.

Why? Did the typical KKK speech of that era claim that American Blacks were a bunch of left wing intellectual eggheads who supported Marx and Darwin?

91 posted on 09/02/2015 9:17:21 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (The "end of history" will be Worldwide Judaic Theocracy.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

#12 they also had way too much of Wesley Crusher
The Jar Jar Binks of Star Trek (Sheldon).


92 posted on 09/02/2015 9:17:44 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: TexasFreeper2009
The liberals of today believe there are no moral absolutes and that force should never be used, even force to defend ones country, freedom or even life. And that Capitalism is the true evil infecting this world along with the evil white colonialist.

So-called "anti-war pacifists" "progressives" have been around a long time. I put "anti-war pacifists" in quotes because most of those organizing the "peace" rallies, in reality, were/are anything but "anti-war" or "pacifist". Rather they were/are devoted supporters of brutal communist dictatorships. People who never met a bloody leftist uprising or revolution they didn't welcome and support. People who worship mass murderers like Mao and even Stalin.

93 posted on 09/02/2015 9:21:20 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: Mad Dawgg
It is a spoof on Red Shirts and their chances of returning alive when they beam down to a planet.

I see. They are 'throw-aways'. Like the poor unknown schmuck who gets in the ring with some big-name superstar pro wrestler. You just know things aren't going to work out too well for them.

94 posted on 09/02/2015 9:27:10 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: Zionist Conspirator
The few I have seen excerpts from over the years often alluded to a “slippery slope” when it came to the ideas and policies being pushed by liberals and where they would lead.

Their predictions about the legalization of sodomy, gay marriage, the public schools, the condoning of adultery, the removal of God from the schools, no fault divorce were all pretty prophetic in hind site. Those predictions were just completely overshadowed by their illogical hate of other races and religions.

95 posted on 09/02/2015 9:29:52 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, & R)
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To: DFG

Picard was a wuss. He had a ships counselor.
I think her name was Oprah... argh.
That version of Star Trek I hated. They have some good shows but they kept putting in one stupid liberal idea after another and was always moralizing ruining overall the show.


96 posted on 09/02/2015 9:30:23 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: Stand Watch Listen

Seen all the new trailers have I. Doctor I had to call...hmmmm over 4 hours it lasted erection it did.

:-) snorkel...snorkel...

Is it December yet ?????

JEDI


97 posted on 09/02/2015 9:31:43 AM PDT by JEDI4S (I don't mean to cause trouble...it just happens naturally through the Force!)
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To: Mad Dawgg

From your wiki link:

“In Star Trek, red-uniformed security officers and engineers who accompany the main characters on landing parties often suffer quick deaths.[2]

The trope first appears in the episode “What Are Little Girls Made Of?” (1966).[3] Of the 59 crew members killed in the series, 43 (73%) were wearing red shirts.[4]”


98 posted on 09/02/2015 9:35:19 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: ETL

from a documentary on ST(NG)

after G. Rodeberry passed. one of the “old hands” disliked a script.. went to the head office and said “gene wouldn’t like it” response “gene’s dead” and thus verbs were reissued in the ST universe


99 posted on 09/02/2015 9:43:16 AM PDT by Bidimus1
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To: GOPJ

BTW I been seen a lot of Have Gun will travel on new OTA channel Decades tv network


100 posted on 09/02/2015 9:44:16 AM PDT by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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