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Originally posted by Spanky
Never a Trekker? Shame on you. Although I can relate. I tried to be a trekkie, but a ship run by a frenchman, a psychotherapist, and repressed homosexual with a beard just never did it for me. In the episode Dr. McCoy goes back into time and screws everythimg up. Spock and Kirk go after him to straighten things out and end up in the United States during the depression. They pretend to be unemployed bums and they find food and Shelter at a halfway home run by Joan Collins. She is very well intentioned and of course - as Paris would say - hot. She spends all her time helping the poor. Of course, Kirk bags her, and falls for her. Spock figures out that where McCoy screwed things up was by saving Joan Collins's life by preventing her from getting run over by a car. If she had died everything would have been OK. But since she lived, she becomes a strong leader of the US Pacifist movement. Through her Charisma and earnest charm she convinces the United States to delay its entry in WWII to "Give Peace a Chance". The delay gives Germany the time it needs to develop its special weapons and win the war. So to save the world, Kirk has to prevent McCoy from saving Joan Collins's life. So Kirk grabs McCoy and doesn't let him grab Joan, and Joan becomes road kill.
The moral of the story: Even if Pacifists are hot the world is better off with out them.
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You must have missed the end of that episode, where they all agreed that she had the right message, just at the wrong time. (And then they went off and zapped a bunch of Klingons, but whatever.)
