A Star Trek clip with a lesson straight out of “To Kill a Mockingbird” (one of my favorite books BTW).
YouTube: “Lessons in Humanity: Habeas Corpus”
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This is flame war worthy – Star Trek fan? You may be a believer in Humanism
Telegram & Gazette: “‘Star Trek’ franchise an homage to humanist philosophy”.
Rest in peace: Patrick McGoohan and Ricardo Montalban
“The Prisoner”, and “The Wrath of Khan”.
Tor.com: Will you be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered?
AMC has put all 17 original episodes of The Prisoner online!: The Prisoner 1967-1968
Rest in peace: Bettie Page and Majel Barrett-Roddenberry
Bettie Page (April 22, 1923 – December 11, 2008)
LATimes: Bidding Bettie Page farewell:
“I was not trying to be shocking, or to be a pioneer,” Page explained in an interview years later.
“I wasn’t trying to change society, or to be ahead of my time. I didn’t think of myself as liberated, and I don’t believe that I did anything important. I was just myself. I didn’t know any other way to be, or any other way to live.”
Majel Barrett-Roddenberry (February 23 1932 – December 18 2008)
Projo Subterranean Homepage News: Voice of the Star Trek computer, Majel Roddenberry, dies at 76:
See, Gene was a fantastic storyteller, probably the best in the business. What he did was tell stories. He didn’t lay plots and ideas and things like that — he told stories. You can take any one of our stories that we use right now, put western clothes on us, stick us out in the west and they’ll work just as well — any single one of them — because they’re stories about people, they’re stories about things. And, of course, Gene had to put some of his philosophy into each one of them, but that was just his way of, really, getting past the censors. The censorship in those days was just horrible.
James Doohan, “Scotty”, Rest In Peace
Yesterday afternoon I heard the news that James Doohan had passed. My wishes to his family, his friends, and to all my Star Trek buds out there.
CNN obit and Memory Alpha’s Bio of Montgomery Scott.
Previous employers have looked at me as ummm a “miracle worker” – and ahhh – I let on my secret once to my former boss, Rajiv: applying the “Scotty Rule” to project estimations. Never, ever, ever quote the time it would take to finish a project accurately. Pad it. Double and triple it.
From the TNG episode “Relics’:
Scotty: “Starfleet captains are like children. They want everything right now and they want it their way. But the secret is to give them only what they need, not what they want.”
LaForge: “Yeah, well, I told the captain I’d have this analysis done in an hour.”
Scotty: “How long will it really take?”
LaForge: “An hour.”
Scotty: “You didn’t tell him now long it would really take, did you?”
LaForge: “Of course I did.”Scotty: “Laddie, you got a lot to learn if you want people to think of you as a miracle worker!”
From “Star Trek III: The Search For Spock”:
Kirk: “How long to re-fit?”
Scotty: “Eight weeks. But you don’t have eight weeks, so I’ll do it for you in two.”
Kirk: “Do you always multiply your repair estimates by a factor of four?”
Scotty: “How else to maintain my reputation as a miracle worker?”
Kirk: “Your reputation is safe with me.”
God bless and God speed.