Welcome to another edition of Shit We Should Have Learned from Star Trek In a season 4 episode of Deep Space Nine that aired in 1996 - a full five years before the worst terrorist attack to ever occur on American soil, a series of enemy attacks convinced the president to give the military more sweeping powers. Sound familiar? (In that episode, the attacks were faked, but Im not focusing on that, preferring to call attention to the governments clarion call to arms leading to the erosion of our basic rights in the name of security.) Some of the final words spoken in the episode follow (taken from IMDB). Read the last line twice, and then weep for us all. Joseph Sisko: [on the Starfleet troops] The streets are gonna seem emptier with them gone. Odo: Would you be happier if theyd stayed? Joseph Sisko: Oh, if theyd stayed it wouldnt be Earth anymore, would it? It didnt seem right, all those phasers everywhere. Odo: Am I the only one whos worried that there are still Changelings here on Earth? Joseph Sisko: Worried? Im scared to death. But Ill be damned if Im gonna let them change the way I live my life. Captain Sisko: If the Changelings want to destroy what weve built here, theyre going to have to do it themselves. We will not do it for them.
Posted on: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 12:37:42 +0000