Re: Semi-YASID - independence

From	Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net>
Newsgroups	rec.arts.sf.written
Subject	Re: Semi-YASID - independence
Date	2016-06-26 00:55 +0000
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Joseph Nebus <nebusj-@-rpi-.edu> wrote:
> In <142e1024-aeee-429a-bf24-2c28d1896e8a@googlegroups.com> mcdowell_ag@sky.com writes:
>
>>I think I can remember Star Trek episodes or possibly SF in which at the en=
>>d of the story a population is free, but they get told they have to face up=
>> to the fact that freedom is harder work than their previous state. Can any=
>>body point to anything specific? I'm happy to be told this is a hackneyed c=
>>liche, or bad politics, or both, but I'd like to know if my memory is playi=
>>ng tricks on me.
>
>        You're likely thinking of 'The Return Of The Archons'.  As Kirk
> gets closer to blowing up the (SPOILER) all-powerful computer-god ruling
> over the planet, the members of the local resistance that he's teamed up
> with in the one episode that *has* such a movement get cold feet and fear
> they've destroyed themselves.  Kirk slaps them, possibly only as a
> metaphor, explaining to them it isn't that easy.  And in the end, indeed,
> the locals have what they wanted: instead of a peaceful, prosperous, and
> contented world they've got public brawls and domestic abuse again.

It was hardly all sweetness and light when the computer ran the show.
Everybody walked around like zombies. After a while they all moaned
about how the Enterprise crew was not of the body. Then there was an
augmented Orwellian two minute hate called Festival. Anything went
during Festival, including rape and mayhem.

--
Don Kuenz KB7RPU

See the little phrases go,
  Watch their funny antics.
The men who make them wiggle so
  Are teachers of Semantics.

The words go up, the words go round
  And make a great commotion,
But all that lies behind the sound
  Is hebetude Boeotian.

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Semi-YASID - independence mcdowell_ag@sky.com - 2016-06-24 10:54 -0700
  Re: Semi-YASID - independence "Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)" <seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com> - 2016-06-24 20:15 -0400
    Re: Semi-YASID - independence djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-25 00:17 +0000
    Re: Semi-YASID - independence Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-06-24 18:22 -0700
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  Re: Semi-YASID - independence ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2016-06-25 04:00 +0000
    Re: Semi-YASID - independence mcdowell_ag@sky.com - 2016-06-24 21:47 -0700
  Re: Semi-YASID - independence nebusj-@-rpi-.edu (Joseph Nebus) - 2016-06-25 18:14 +0000
    Re: Semi-YASID - independence Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> - 2016-06-26 00:55 +0000

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