If Bush's America were a Star Trek TOS episode, it would be

[Minstrel Boy]

Yes - Return of the Archons

A society managed by a puritanical, high tech mind cult, which releases tension through orchestrated orgies of violence.

"FESTIVAL! FESTIVAL!"


"HE IS NOT OF THE BODY."


"YOU WILL BE ABSORBED."


"HE'S UNDER EXTREMELY STRONG MIND CONTROL"

[FarmerOak]

1. Spock's Brain

A high-ranking officer with no brain is controlled by others.

[Astarho]

2. Mirror Mirror

It's an alternate universe where everyone is evil, power hungry, and cruel.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

3. Damn, beat me to it (nt)

[FarmerOak]

4. Charlie X

Immature child, raised in sheltered environment, is given incredible power, power he has not earned, and proceeds to misuse it.

[FarmerOak]

5. The Doomsday Machine

Following a series of devestating attacks, a high-ranking officer overreacts and gives orders resulting in the needless deaths of his loyal subordinates. He endeavors to compound his mistake by killing even more people, but is thwarted in his attempts by insightful, competent leadership, which replaces him and saves the day for future adventures.

[Rabrrrrrr]

6. Can't remember the name, but the one that had only children running

everything because people die when they hit adult-hood.

Shrub's America reminds me of a country run by people with the intellectual and ethical maturity of 8 year olds.

[FarmerOak]

7. That's "Miri," Rab

[Rabrrrrrr]

9. That's it! Thanks!

And welcome to DU! :hi:

[FarmerOak]

10. Thanks!

I'm looking through the Star Trek Compendium to get these... the parallels are astonishing!

[Rabrrrrrr]

11. Not surprising, since Roddenberry was particularly speaking out

against the kind of government that is the wet-dream of the neo-cons.

Let's face it, the Federation is as far away from Republicanism, in its current form, as possible.

[FarmerOak]

8. Bread and Circuses

A cowardly commander betrays his subordinates, ordering them to their deaths for commercial and entertainment purposes. He also persecutes and attempts to exterminate a population because of their religious beliefs.

[EstimatedProphet]

12. A taste of armageddon

The two planets at war with each other where everyone has become stepfordized and walks into a disintegrator when instructed, so that they can preserve their perpetual war without destroying their technology-the neocon's wet dream.

[Rabrrrrrr]

14. I thought of that, and then decided against it

because on Archon, at least the people in charge actually allowed themselves to be in "danger" and would go to the disintegrators as well.

Otherwise, the perpetual war, using "clean" war technology, etc. - so republican.

[FarmerOak]

13. A Piece Of The Action

The commander of an overwhelmingly powerful force of men and women invades a distant land; it is revealed that the rulers of this distant land had become powerful and corrupt due to the mistakes of the commander's predecessors. In a clumsy attempt to "correct" the situation, he intalls a puppet government, and demands a portion of all future revenues.

[Book Lover]

15. The Savage Curtain

Blinded by patriotism, soldiers are lured into a farcical dance of violence between "Good" and "Evil" to satiate the curiosity of a disinterested onlooker.

[FarmerOak]

19. Very well done, BL

[Book Lover]

20. I just

wish it weren't so effing apt. Thank you for your kind complement.

[Minstrel Boy]

16. So many contenders.

Too bad Roddenberry didn't live to see this. Or maybe it's merciful he didn't.

[Whitacre D_WI]

17. "Plato's Stepchildren."

[Viking12]

18. The Trouble with Tribbles

They just keep reproducing one lying scumbag after another. I wish we could just transport them to a klingon ship.