[appeal2]

Very powerful and profound. Beam me up Scotty.

[MedicalMess]

Excellent piece, I have aways thought the same about the original Star Trek series. Remember the episode where the Nazis are back in power? How about the one with the mob bosses running things?

History repeats itself.

[NordP]

I remember the episode that had Kirk and Spock battling this Commissioner that wanted peace through discussion. The bad guys quickly showed the "why don't we just talk it out" Commissioner that he was wrong, and Kirk and Spock had to save him and the rest of the Universe!

Some things never change!

[Undertow]

Saddam, Live long and prosper!

(evil laugh) HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

[martin_fierro]

There's even a plate about it (awww, sold out)!

[woofer]

With that, a confused Kirk mugs for the camera as a booming voice informs us that the Enterprise was no more. In fact, it never was. It seems that McCoy's leap through the arch took him into the past where he did something, something that changed history. In fact, what he did erased centuries of human progress, and the crew of the Enterprise never went "boldly where no man has gone before." The authoritative-sounding disembodied voice would not say just what that action was, but Kirk knew that he and Spock had to travel back in time and prevent it at all costs.

I got to this paragraph and immediately thought, "Man, McCoy let the islamists take over. Instead of going forward to the future, they led the world back to the 7th century."

[Mark]

Without the wisdom of Barbara Streisand, this article is just incomplete.

[strela]

Khan: "Time's up, Admiral!"

Kirk: "Here it comes ..."

Admiral Kirk, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

[Pokey78]

Live long and prosper: It's a good thing!

[rface]

Episode: The City on the Edge of Forever:

[Slyfox]

In "The Cage", I find the best picture of the democratic party. The Talosians have placed Captain Pike in the cage with Vina. Pike is P.O.ed and threatens to use his phaser to blow a hole in the wall of the cage. When he does shoot at the wall nothing seems to happen, but in reality, he has blown a hole clean through it.

I often think of this when I hear of the way democrats tend to marginalize Republicans, for example, the true scope of conservative thought. One of the reasons these elections took the liberals by surprise was that after decades of illusory indulgence, they actually think they have more people supporting them than actually exist.

Unlike the Talosians, they have been working hard to reduce the breeding stock through abortion on demand.

[Land_of_Lincoln_John]

KHAN!!!!!

[SJackson]

If you'd like to be on or off this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.

[Kerberos]

"I remember one in particular that finds Kirk, Spock, and McCoy in Depression-era America, where they traveled to encounter none other than Joan Collins. "

The City on the Edge of Forever, my all-time favorite Star Trek episode. Moreover, it does greatly highlight the fallacy and danger of peace activism.

[weikel]

I get the point but part of the premise of that episode was faulty Heisenberg so overcalculated(not intentionally he really was trying to build one) the critical mass for an A Bomb that Germany wouldn't have gotten one for a long time.

[finnman69]

Fascinating.

[Dajjal]

It is quite logical.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

Yes, we can learn a great deal from Star Trek. Many voyages of the starship Enterprise were metaphors for the great moral and political struggles of our time

Lay off the BEAM and COKES

[NEWwoman]

I loved the old Star Trek. I first saw the Joan Collins episode as a child and cried when she had to die. Yet, the lesson was so prophetic.

The old Star Trek was ahead of its time yet really had some old fashion American values. The other p.c. Star Treks don't measure up.

[PeaceBeWithYou]

The writer missed the ideology factor of the current anti-war crowd. They are anti-Bush and pro-Saddam. Saddam is a Stalinist/marxist and so are they. Same is true for Nam - only in that anti-war movement they even opposed a democrat, albeit a southern populist one.

If Saddam were a "right-wing" elected President using martial law to fight a marxist/rebel insurgency in his country they would be all for taking him out, i.e. Nicaragua, Bosnia, Serbia, etc.