I miss America, with whose ideals I was born and raised. Only yesterday it filled our hearts with boundless optimism, but Joe Biden now promises …
I miss America, with whose ideals I was born and raised. Only yesterday it filled our hearts with boundless optimism, but Joe Biden now promises that America’s „darkest days… are ahead of us.“ I miss America, a land where sunny dreams came true, and we looked to the opening new frontier of space travel. Television was the window through which my generation watched „Star Trek,“ which expanded our thinking about life and the universe. In one episode, „The City on the Edge of Forever“ by writer-friend Harlan Ellison, Starship Enterprise officers beam down to a planet racked by earthquakes and soon to break apart. The people of this world escaped through a time-machine into the past, a portal the ship’s temporarily-crazed Dr. McCoy leaps into and lands back on Earth in the early 1930s. After McCoy reaches the past, Spock and Capt. Kirk discover that the Enterprise has vanished. They follow McCoy through the portal, find the woman of Kirk’s dreams, but learn that she is fated to be killed by a truck days later, at least in the history that led to their world. But, in an alternate reality, McCoy saves her from the fatal accident. She becomes a peace activist who persuades President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to enter into peace negotiations rather than go to war against Adolf Hitler. Because of this, the Nazis develop the atom bomb first, conquer the world and create a future with no Starship Enterprise. To save the future, Kirk stops McCoy from snatching the woman out of death’s way. „Jim! I could have saved her,“ McCoy says angrily. „Do you know what you just did?“ „He knows, Doctor,“ replies Spock.
