Re: The economics of Star Trek

From: Brian D Williams (talon57@well.com)
Date: Thu Feb 28 2002 - 14:46:28 MST


>From: Mike Lorrey <mlorrey@datamann.com>

>I didn't see Voyager as so politically correct, because as often
>as not, the 'politically correct' solution to problems presented
>turned out to be a *supremely dumb idea* in the end, usually in
>situations where Voyager acted based on humane premises but
>without all the facts of the situation, which seems to mirror the
>frequent failed liberal attempts at foreign policy in the last
>decade. Perhaps being used to TNG and DSN, I saw Voyager as a
>significant improvement. Note that there is no one clique of
>writers for Star Trek's modern series', many different fans and
>writers of different types have written episodes, which obviously
>contributes to not only the inconsistencies, but the odds that at
>least some episodes were written by communist/socialist
>sympathizers.

They had to have a woman captain, a black vulcan, a Native American
first officer, I mean come on!

I liked the holographic doctor and I never did see one of the
episodes with the race that crushed 9 Borg cubes, I was always
curious about them.

 
>> If the Palestinians ever begin to get their act together I
>> expect their first act will be to hold out their hands for a
>> handout from the "Great Satan". In fact I'll cover the bets...

>We've already given them foreign aid, something like a half
>billion dollars or more during the Clinton era. Thats no bet.

Not another dime if I can help it...

I've been thinking of creating a site called usforeignaid.com where
we could have documented the something like 4 trillion we have
given out. We could just point the anti-americans there.

Brian

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Brian

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