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Scotland Yard Fears Trekkie Uprising

Smellincoffee

Smellincoffee

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From the Telegraph:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukn...ared-that-Trekkies-could-turn-on-society.html

It has emerged that Scotland Yard kept a secret dossier on Star Trek, The X-Files, and other US sci fi shows amid fears that British fans would go mad and kill themselves, turn against society or start a weird cult. [...] Special Branch was concerned that people hooked on such material could go into a frenzy triggered by the millennium leading to anarchy.
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Well, we're busted. Our sinister plot to take over the world and inaugurate a golden age of peace, universal prosperity, and really bad clothing has become exposed. Time to go underground.
 
Aww man they're on to our trek-centred socialist-revolution? Damn.

What with Trek preaching tolerance, science and peace WE are the group to be watched.
 
They didn't need to conduct studies on the Whovians. It was already obvious they were loony. :D
 
TheGoodStuff said:
Aww man they're on to our trek-centred socialist-revolution? Damn.

What with Trek preaching tolerance, science and peace WE are the group to be watched.
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Yes it sounds ludicrous. It comes as no surprise, though, I remember when it came out that the FBI were keeping tabs on/infiltrating old-age pension and vegan cooking meet-ups.

Any groups of people getting together to attempt any societal change whether it be ostensibly for the better or worse will understandably draw attention from those tasked with keeping order and the status quo. Some groups and individuals existing amongst the 'conspiracy theory', patriot and other movements may actually warrant the attention too.

It's a balance, though, as another blatant East German Stasi-type system won't do any favors for our future one wouldn't think...

While Trek's outlook for humankind is most attractive, positive, and potentially achievable, it may not be time yet.

Imagine a real-life Edith Keeler effect on our future. Our mistakes have and will shape it...
 
Smellincoffee said:
Well, we're busted. Our sinister plot to take over the world and inaugurate a golden age of peace, universal prosperity, and really bad clothing has become exposed. Time to go underground.
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I just MIGHT take that really bad clothing for granted, if we'd also have that golden age of peace and universal prosperity. Not sure yet, though ;)
 
We are constantly getting worked up into a frenzy here in Cambridgeshire.........
 
Dimesdan said:
Lance said:
Your tax dollars at work, people. :lol:
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What tax dollars?
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MacLeod said:
That's pounds thank you. ;)
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Perhaps I should've said "rates". :D

At the end of the day, the Police are public servants, so what I meant was that it's the money of Mr and Mrs Joe Average that was spent in the above foolishness.

Mind you, the bureaucracy has never had too much trouble finding pointless ways to waste the public's money. ;)
 
The golden age of really bad clothing has already passed. It was the late 80's to early 90's.
I recently found some examples from that period tucked away in the back of my closet.
 
Lance said:
Dimesdan said:
Lance said:
Your tax dollars at work, people. :lol:
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What tax dollars?
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MacLeod said:
That's pounds thank you. ;)
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Perhaps I should've said "rates". :D

At the end of the day, the Police are public servants, so what I meant was that it's the money of Mr and Mrs Joe Average that was spent in the above foolishness.

Mind you, the bureaucracy has never had too much trouble finding pointless ways to waste the public's money. ;)
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I think the point was that the UK uses the Pound Sterling as it's currency, not any form of Dollar. So there are no tax dollars to collect.

But yes it's our taxes at work.

No doubt there is some government quango to come up with new and inventive ways to waste our money. ;)
 
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Horizons96 said:
TheGoodStuff said:
Aww man they're on to our trek-centred socialist-revolution? Damn.

What with Trek preaching tolerance, science and peace WE are the group to be watched.
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Yes it sounds ludicrous. It comes as no surprise, though, I remember when it came out that the FBI were keeping tabs on/infiltrating old-age pension and vegan cooking meet-ups.
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At that time it did seem like something to take seriously. In the lead up to Y2k, security forces had to know that millenniums are known for stirring up activity in fanatical fringe groups, and as religion has become less central to our society, science fiction has to some extent replaced it in the popular imagination. The Heaven's Gate suicide cult was very much into TNG (also X-Files); they thought it showed the kind of world they would go to after dying. The Aum cult in Japan (whose attack on the Tokyo subway killed 12 and injured many more) used science fiction to illustrate and justify their teachings. (Going back a bit further, Charles Manson referenced Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land as part of his belief system.) There were probably other groups we didn't hear about because they didn't actually kill anyone.
 
People fear people who aren't like themselves.

It's a strange, cliquey world we live in. :(
 
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