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11. The corbomite maneuver

Sun Sep 8, 2019, 09:50 AM

Sep 2019

With young Clint Howard as Blalock.
I was 7 years old when first aired, both my older brothers and I were just blown away once the "evil" looking alien was revealed to be a ruse, and here was the super-intellectual being testing the explorer's true intentions.
We need Blalock or some other incredibly powerful yet benevolent being to visit us now, put the oligarchs out of power, put out the Amazon fires, blow idiotic religious idiocracy out of the picture and help us truly evolve.

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Not to worry, there's hope for you! Mersky Sep 2019 #33

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Very cool Mersky Sep 2019 #35

The corbomite maneuver lambchopp59 Sep 2019 #11

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