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OK, I admit to being a bit of a nerd, but a great speech on what we face:
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: You know, there are some words I've known since I was a schoolboy: "With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
Haha I love it! There's a lot of wisdom in Star Trek. I'm actually about to fire up an episode now :D
You didn't finish Picards speech:
From the Drumhead episode...season 4-episode 21Quote:
Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie as wisdom and warning. The first time any man's freedom is trodden on we're all damaged.
I just watched that episode again about a week ago. Very timely, and very true. Had planned to use the "quote" in one of my upcoming letters.
Bravo to the writers on that one...
That's one of the things I love about Sci-fi, and specifically Star Trek. It is really a social-political comentary, that speaks to the human condition. Sometimes people have to see their own prejudices and irrationalities in an alien race before they can understand how wrong or evil it is. There really are a lot of great lessons from Gene Rodenberry (this is the part where my wife rolls her eyes and stops listening to me).