From: YANJUNA@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu
Subject: Re: Clinton and Trek
Organization: Yale University
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 23:46:08 EST

In article <1992Dec14.221706.18492@husc3.harvard.edu>
cstone@husc8.harvard.edu (christopher stone) writes:
 
>
>In article <1992Dec14.215323.19802@muddcs.claremont.edu> tbrowne@jarthur.claremont.edu (T. Erik Browne) writes:
>>In article <168BC14F38.YANJUNA@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu> YANJUNA@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu writes:
>>>In article <rsvanc00.724300770@mik.uky.edu>
>>>rsvanc00@nx36.mik.uky.edu (Randolph S. Vance) writes:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>Who says the Eugenics war HAS to happen? Our future has yet to be
>>>>written, so it is up to us, and Clinton to make sure it is a good
>>>>one. HYPOTHETICALLY, had Clinton NOT been re-elected, it is theoretically
>>>>possible that the Eugenics wars might have occured, because of the
>>>>Republican's progression of the establishment over that of the individual.
>>>>
>>>>Someone like Reagan, or Nixon or Bush, or *gasp* Quayle, might want
>>>>to create a nation of perfect specimens, the scientists work to create
>>>>that superior race, they overthrow, the world go boom.....you know the rest.
>>>>
>>>>Then again, it MIGHT HAVE BEEN CLINTON that launched the world into
>>>>the horror of the Eugenics Wars. Clinton and Gore DID SAY they were
>>>>putting people first. ;)
>>>>
>>>>But, to quote another person familiar with the effects of time travel,
>>>>
>>>>"Your future is whatever you make it, so make it a good one!"
>>>>
>>>>	-Doctor Emmett L. Browm
>>>>
>>>>Whatever humanity's outcome, it doesn't have to happen that way. RIGHT NOW,
>>>>we can change the future! :)
>>>>
>>>   Well, you've created a divergent time-path....
>>>          (apologies to Gregory Benford)
>>
>>Come on, Trek history diverged from our own in the late 60's when the events
>>portrayed in the Gary 7 episode failed to happen.  As far as I know, no
>>country ever launched an orbital nuclear platform, which was the premise for
>>the episode.  So though it is fun to speculate on future history, you can go
>>back quite a ways to come up with the divergent stuff.
>
>Well, I was actually positing Trek's time line, not ours, in the original
>post.  From the 24th century, the Eugenics Wars are a given, so I think
>Bill's reelection would be justified.  Of course, we fans being who we
>are, this would give us a mighty incentive to "make it so" and
>vote for Bill in 1996 :) :) :)
>
>Of course, you could argue that in Trek's timeline, diverging from the
>events of "Assignment Earth," Bill never gets elected in the first place...
>(I do not think "Assignment" really diverges, though...see my other post
>about that.)
>
>Since I have probably just offended all the Republicans out there, I
>will give you some ground to argue on.  In both TOS ("Omega Glory")
>and TNG ("High Ground" and "Symbiosis," I think) we learn that
>Earth suffered several bacteriological wars in the near future, probably
>in the late 1990's.  It would thus appear that Bill failed to contain
>the proliferation of non-conventional weapons and that only the
>watchful eye of Gary Seven's race prevented full-fledged biological
>and nuclear war.  (IMHO, the post-atomic horror was probably a very
>localized occurrance in one or two cities, probably in Asia (Korea?) or the
 
   As  a Korean returning to Korea probably sometime early next year, I'm
not sure I find this comforting :)
   On the other hand, it would explain why there are so few Asians in
Trek universe....
 
   Junsok Yang