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Jan 14, 2022Liked by Monica Hughes PhD

"They must apply to everyone, or they mean nothing!"

Sadly, even Captain James Tiberius Kirk would be banned from Twitter in 2022.

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I loved the original Star Trek series and didn't watch much of the subsequent ones. My favourite episode ("Arena") was the one with the Gorn. So, I loved the analogy in this article.

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Jan 13, 2022Liked by Monica Hughes PhD

Totalitarianism always fails. Sometimes(like now) it takes far longer than we would wish. But in the end those standing in the gap from the start are slowly joined by others. Some come grudgingly, some willingly, some because they have nothing left. As Kappy wrote in his final (prophetic) tweet; “Beware the man with nothing to lose, because he has nothing to protect.” Soon the line is solid, and deep, there are many more coming to support and fill where needed. As my 30 year old son recently said to me “Dad do you realize that all the hunters in the US constitute the largest army in the world?” Freedom is too powerful a force for totalitarianism to prevail. It is likely to get really really ugly. But in the end Old Glory ultimately will be just fine.

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Jan 13, 2022Liked by Monica Hughes PhD

> Nevertheless, his case is one of the signs that the internet is about to change dramatically… to think that as a kid I dreamt of living in a Star Trek environment and now waking up in a 1984 George Orwell scenario. I DON'T like it…

I'm not a Trekkie, and I'm curious - those who know the lore, how WERE dissenters treated/handled in the Star Trek universe?

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