Appeal to Star Trek buffs

[bekah]

At 1:16 PM -0500 6/23/07, Dave Monroe wrote:
>On 6/23/07, Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>I've never seen any of the episodes, and, as much as I remember, there was
>>only one feature film which I did see, and I don't remember much of it now
>>either. Since Star Trek IS important for AtD, could you recommend me some
>>episodes and feature films that are echoed therein? Thanks in advance.
>
>Okay, what have I been missing here lately ...


Check out the 'Prime Directive' of the Star Trek crew in relation to 
a guiding principle of the Chums.   There is also the "Temporal Prime 
Directive."   References to at least one of these can be seen in 
almost every Star Trek episode.   It's alluded to on page 8 in AtD:

"Much as I might be inclined to offer our protection," Lindsay had 
informed the agitated youth," here on the ground we are constrained 
by our Charter,   which directs us never to interfere with legal 
customs of any locality down at which we may happen to have touched."


<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Directive>
Thomas Pynchon's 2006 novel Against the Day, in a parody of serial 
fiction, features a young men's organization, the "Chums of Chance", 
whose Charter includes a paraphrase of Star Trek's Prime Directive, 
"never to interfere with legal customs of any locality at which we 
may have happened to touch."

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporal_Prime_Directive>

Bek
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