Star Trek

Open Minds On Air: Undue Influence in Pop-Culture Star Trek

From OpenMindsFoundation.org
In this month’s episode, Pearse is joined by Spike Robinson to launch a new series, “Undue Influence in Pop Culture,” where they plan to examine various popular movies, television series and books through the lens of undue influence and coercive control. This month, they compare and contrast two episodes of classic Star Trek: “Return of the Archons” and “A Taste of Armageddon.”

‘THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY’: Only Trump Could Go to North Korea…

In the sixth Star Trek  film, The Undiscovered Country, Ambassador Spock tells Captain Kirk, “There’s an old Vulcan saying – only Nixon could go to China.” The line was supposed to be tongue-in-cheek, suggesting that Nixon going to China was so symbolically significant that it had even become a saying among an alien race centuries […]

Midnight Meme Of The Day!

-by NoahThis is a bit of a tough decision for me, not in the result but in the how. If I came upon this golden opportunity to be the instrument of karma, I might be inclined to grab a bolt cutter and lop off his tiny fingers one by one, slowly. Or, I might just playfully indulge in a happy little game of "this little piggy."But, let me show you what my first thought was when I saw today's meme.