No empire is that powerful … as soon as you think you can control a group of people with violence and fear, you’ve taken the first step to losing control.

It might work at first and it may even go on for a while but it won’t last.

It’s not a Hollywood fantasy either … every empire in history started with great power and ended in destruction. It won’t be pretty and it won’t work out as some epic drama but it will end because people everywhere will never stand for it.

The problems always boil down to money and power.

Everyone wants to rule the world and think and believe that they can become masters of the universe.

No one can … a few of us might be able to attain that possibility momentarily but it will never be possible to make it last.

So the problem lies with money and wealth.

Remove and outlaw excessive wealth. Go ahead become a millionaire with ten million, no one will stop you but you are no longer allowed to gain any more than that.

Once excessive wealth is removed and more people are able to share wealth and power … then we can talk about world problems like adults … equal adults who have an equal chance at the benefits but also an equal share of the risks of failure.

Right now, the few people holding the power have no risks and only stand to benefit, no matter what happens, so they have no incentive to change. The majority who have no power risk losing everything but have no power to change anything.

… all that nonsense gets thrown out the window if the person in charge has a bagillion dollars and can hire and fire whoever they want regardless if it is their fault or not. And they can just throw endless amounts of money at problems until either the problem is fixed or everything and everyone surrounding the problem is liquidated, sold and reset while the people in charge take no responsibility.

Dr. Bashir? … is that you?

Now I get it … but now I feel like someone actually opened the Temu Configuration Box and made all this possible.

Trust me, you really don’t.

Now I really have to watch it.

I love the trivia because it drives me to watch more, learn more and see more of Star Trek and everything related to it. But sometimes I just get completely lost with all the endless references.

It’s like saying I love chocolate cake and then someone gives me a chocolate cake the size of Mount Everest. I can eat as much as I want but I’ll never finish it.

So I’m just here at base camp covered in chocolate sauce waving at you at 20,000 feet on the side of Mount Coco Loco Star Trek.

Also … I love cheesy movies anyways

The displacements started getting rough,
The tiny ship was tossed,
If not for the courage of the fearless crew
USS Voyager would be lost, USS Voyager would be lost.

The ship set still on the shore of the uncharted delta quadrant
With Chakotay
Captain Janeway too,
Tom Paris and his wife,
A Borg Woman
The Doctor and some Ensign
Here on USS Voyager!!!

Why do you guys do this? … with the inside trivia of the inside trivia of that actor from that specific episode from that show from that time with the inside trivia of the actor that did this in that movie with that show from that time with that guy in that place from 20 years ago

I feel like O’Brien sometimes … and other times I feel like someone trapped in O’Brien’s transport buffer

Now I have to go watch Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth from 1992

I think they prefer their Generations shaken … not stirred

To be fair … the 21st and 24th centuries are only a few hundred years of human evolution … compared to the 40,000 years prior where we spent most of our time fighting one another for power and money with clubs, swords, and our bare hands.

I wouldn’t expect us to behave any differently for a few thousand years before we could change significantly.

Just because we can fly spaceships and have advanced technology … doesn’t mean that our minds and behaviour evolved as fast in a few hundred years.

Also discovered something crazy about birthdays when it comes to athletics and competitive sports.

An athletes chance of success are based on what month they are born. Depending on the sport, region and organizations and systems involved … if an athlete is born earlier in the year and the rank they are placed in starts at the beginning of the year, they have a better chance because they will almost be a year older than the player born at the end of the year. In Junior leagues or youth divisions at 10 years of age to 18 … a year makes a huge difference in the players.

I learned all of this from talking to a few individuals who went through provincial level hockey in Ontario.

When it comes to the top level sports … what month you are born really matters.

The slippery slope is like a gradual descent or gentle move to a lower place and it takes a while … the further you go, the faster you go down … eventually at one point, you’re traveling so fast down the slope that there is no more turning back and you have no choice but to fall off the edge.

“From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.”

Will Durant

The thing that is upsetting about American fascism is not that it exists.

It’s the fact that everyone is debating it like an argument about what kind of chairs you want at a wedding.

It’s the same scenario that played out in 1930s Germany and the rise of Nazism … everyone kept arguing that it wouldn’t happen, it’s not like that, it isn’t that bad, they have good points, we can control it, we won’t let them go too far, everyone obeys the rule of law, we have morals …

… then we all had to literally break the entire world in order to fix the problem.