Tuesday, March 19, AD 2024 2:52am

The Omega Glory

Shatner the Canadian explains the preamble of the Constitution to us!  Regular readers of this blog will not be surprised to see me drag Star Trek into my posts leading up to the Fourth of July!

One of the “alternate Earth” episodes that became fairly common as the original Star Trek series proceeded, as explained by Hodgkin’s Law of Parallel Planetary Development,  this episode featured an Earth where a cataclysmic war had driven the Americans, the Yangs, out of their cities and into primitive warbands.  Chinese Communists, the Kohms, settled in America.  Their technology was a few steps higher than the Yangs.  The Yangs had been waging a war for generations to drive the Kohms from their land, and the episode coincided with the Yangs taking the last of “the Kohm places”.

Over the generations, the Yangs had forgotten almost all of their history and what little knowledge remained was restricted to priests and chieftains.

“Cloud William: Freedom?
James T. Kirk: Spock.
Spock: Yes, I heard, Captain.
Cloud William: It is a worship word, Yang worship. You will not speak it.
James T. Kirk: Well, well, well. It is… our worship word, too.”

The Omega Glory illustrates that documents like the Constitution and Declaration retain their importance only when we understand both the words and the history behind the words.  That is why one of the best ways that Americans can celebrate the Fourth is to read the Declaration, think about it and engage in debate about it.  The Declaration is not meant to be an object of cult worship, but rather is a classic expression of how many Americans through the centuries have viewed Man and the State, and the ideas it expresses are just as relevant, and dangerous, today in 2009 as they were in 1776.

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Tito Edwards
Tuesday, June 30, AD 2009 3:09pm

I’m surprised Michael hasn’t jumped all over you for your rampant americanist nationalism.

I remember that episode, I enjoyed it when I was little. Boy, that was a long time ago.

Gabriel Austin
Gabriel Austin
Tuesday, June 30, AD 2009 3:26pm

Should one not concentrate on the Declaration, and pass over the Constitution which is but an administrative document, now being interpreted into obscurity.

Don the Kiwi
Tuesday, June 30, AD 2009 5:33pm

Seeing Bill Shatner in that clip, I wonder if he could have then visualised how he would look and act today in that parody of american legal proceedings, “Boston Law”. 🙂

Tito Edwards
Wednesday, July 1, AD 2009 1:47pm

Don the Kiwi,

LOL!

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