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Re: Semi-YASID - independence

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From djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt)
Subject Re: Semi-YASID - independence
Message-ID <o9Awtu.quH@kithrup.com> (permalink)
Date 2016-06-25 00:17 +0000
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In article <nkkie6$hrr$1@dont-email.me>,
Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) <seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com> wrote:
>On 6/24/16 1:54 PM, mcdowell_ag@sky.com wrote:
>> I think I can remember Star Trek episodes or possibly SF in which at
>the end 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 anybody point to anything specific? I'm happy to be told this
>is a hackneyed cliche, or bad politics, or both, but I'd like to know if
>my memory is playing tricks on me.
>>
>
>
>	In one form or another that was in more than one episode of Trek. 
>Probably the best example is "The Apple" which has Kirk say something 
>like that to the former servants of Vaal.
>
I was going to say "The Machine Stops," but that wasn't ST.

-- 
Dorothy J. Heydt
Vallejo, California
djheydt at gmail dot com

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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
      Re: Semi-YASID - independence Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2016-06-26 23:39 -0700
        Re: Semi-YASID - independence Wayne Brown <fwbrown@bellsouth.net> - 2016-06-29 15:01 +0000
  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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