From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
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   Subject: Re: Vulcan Racism Vs. IDIC?   
      
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    Ron  wrote:   
      
   > > socialism implies that it OUGHT to be.  So, the principle was   
   > > forgotten when discussing that topic.  That sounds a LOT like Star   
   > > Trek's Prime Directive, and Vulcan philosophy, doesn't it?  I wonder   
   > > if that's a coincidence.   
   > >   
   >    
   > Isn't it ironic that the Prime Directive tended to bog down the   
   > stories, but when Enterprise had the chance to get away from that   
   > concept entirely, they brought it back anyway? Of course, the Vulcans   
   > came up with it; figures... But Archer and company had no real reason   
   > to follow along with the idea.   
   >    
   > Ron   
      
   Archer the Executioner should have been shown to have inspired it, after    
   his genocidal actions in "Dear Doctor"   
      
   --    
   As Adam West as Bruce Wayne as Batman said in "Smack in the Middle"     
   the second half of the 1966 BATMAN series pilot when Jill St. John    
   as Molly as Robin as Molly fell into the Batmobile's atomic pile:     
   "What a way to go-go"   
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