Edith Keeler: One day soon, man is going to be able to harness incredible energies, maybe even the atom... energies that could ultimately hurl us to other worlds in... in some sort of spaceship. And the men that reach out into space will be able to find ways to feed the hungry millions of the world and to cure their diseases. They will be able to find a way to give each man hope and a common future. And those are the days worth living for.
James T. Kirk: Do you really think so?
James T. Kirk: Do you really think so?
Edith Keeler: I think that one day they're going to take all the money that they spend now on war and death...
James T. Kirk: And make them spend it on life.
James T. Kirk: And make them spend it on life.
Edith Keeler: Or at least on fancy dresses with shoulder pads and lots and lots of make-up.
(Star Trek, The City on the Edge of Forever, Season 1, episode 28)
3 comments:
Which city? The second city? You sound like Carl Sandburg.
Funny you should say that. That Star Trek episode did take place in Chicago.
Joan Collins played a community organizer.
Now why couldn't we elect a community organizer who looks like a young Joan Collins?
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