A Taste of Armageddon - Star Trek ...time for my weekly daffadoodledoo...

[L0oniX]

Kirk and Spock must save their ship's crew when they are declared all killed in action in a bizarre computer simulated war where the actual deaths must occur to continue.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Taste_of_Armageddon

If you remember the idea was to be able to have war without destroying everything. Kinda like our drone and missile attacks allowing our military personnel to keep the blood and bullets from ruining their uniforms. Everything is remote.

Kirk destroys the computers which play the war game and select who must report for the death chambers. OH NOES ...NOW WE WILL REALLY HAVE TO KILL IN PERSON AND OUR STUFF WILL GET BLOWN UP! Yeah ...well it doesn't escape me that they are making a remote control war real easy.

Oh ...silly me ...just because we fly a few hundred killer drones in and drop a few hundred bombs doesn't mean we are at war ....does it! Am I making sense or is this daffadoodledoo?

[lapfog_1]

1. I was thinking "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield"

or better known as "black/white versus white/black" to describe the religious war between Sunni and Shiite.

Of course that also describes many religious conflicts.

And there isn't much anyone can do to stop it.

[L0oniX]

2. Yep ...that's a good one too.

[napkinz]

9. What Spock says at 2 minutes and 25 seconds ...

And then the shocker is revealed ... the racism. Just blows you away because you don't notice that one is black on the right side, the other is black on the left side, and that's the source of all the hatred! Brilliant episode!

[Ilsa]

3. I remember that one.

That planet was conducting a "sanitary" war. Kirk taught them that war is meant to be ugly, so people will be motivated to resolve conflicts without killing.

[napkinz]

4. "I've given you back the horrors of war."

[L0oniX]

5. Exactly!

[KittyWampus]

6. so what episod is Assad using another round of chemical weapons as his back gets closer to the wall?

[L0oniX]

7. Maybe the starving children and raped women in Sudan can tell ya. n/t

[xfundy]

8. Thanks for that clip

I enjoyed it even as Murdoch's minions had it hang throughout.