The death of Leonard Nimoy is sad to many of us, but he was especially admired by political conservatives. The character he played on Star Trek, Mr. Spock was a very rational, intelligent character who often came to opposite conclusions to people around him (if you live in a liberal place or went to a liberal college, you can personally relate to this), but who used logic and common sense to figure things out. If you were to tell Spock there was global warming, he'd whip out his tricorder, take his own readings, and tell you you were wrong. If you described a society to Spock that invited strangers in and gave them unlimited welfare, Spock would clearly call such a society "illogical".
Here are some more examples from episodes of the original Star Trek TV series:
1. "Devil in the Dark." Evil AFL-CIO miners unwittingly give a silicon based life form called the Horta the equivalent of repeated late term abortions, until Spock teaches them to value all life.
2. "A Taste of Armageddon." A society lets a computer theoretically project disasters, and even casualties, and people designated as casualties voluntarily go into disintegration booths. This is a lot like the global warming scare we face today where data is manipulated to create a theoretical disaster and liberals say we have to punish ourselves based on these theoretical, false projections.
3. "Spock's Brain." In this classic tale of feminism gone amok, a woman-only society forces men to live like savages above ground while they have cushy quarters under the planet surface. The women have given up thinking for themselves and have only childlike intelligence, so they steal Spock's brain so he can run their facility. But Spock teaches them a better way, to give their men equality and to learn for themselves, without affirmative action or the stealing of men's brains.
4. "Return of the Archons." In a parable of communism, a computer controls everybody's minds, telling them what to eat and drink and do, and when to be happy or sad or angry, much like we'd expect to see in a third or fourth term of the Obama Administration. Kirk and Spock fight to give people the freedom to make their own decisions.
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