Over Population Nightmare from 1960s - Star Trek's Mark of Gideon

Kirk calls for contraception and Sterilization for an over populated planet. In the 1960s I remember being fear mongered like this that one day the whole planet would be filled with people.

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[AltairsAttic]

wow.



[Maximara]

@Maximara Project Blue Beam is in fact based on a EPISODE SCRIPT for Phase II that become "Devil's Due" for TNG. It has no more basis in reality then the "Protocols of Zion" does.

[Maximara]

@pronatalist Project Blue Beam is an unwarrented conspiracy theory ie full of irrational nonsense. It should be mentioned that in the original Greek Paul expressly denies the virgin birth in Romans 1:1-3. Paul in fact states Jesus was heir to house of David through the MALE line. Many modern Bibles hide this fact by mistranslating "sperma" as decedent which is a totally different Greek word. This along with other hiccups show the Bible to be be the work of man not God.

[pronatalist]

@Maximara

I'm not sure if "Who Mourns for Adonais?" is the episode to which I was referring. Whichever it was, it was a TOS episode.

Bible warns of fake miracles to confuse the gullible before Jesus's Return. Technology maybe? Somebody said, check out Project Blue Beam.

Twilight Zone admits to presenting social issues, under the guise of sci-fi, as a way to get around the censors. Apparently some of the issues, might have been seen as "offensive." Also liked The Outer Limits.

[Maximara]

@Maximara The Iron Dream is another examination of unsettling social traditions--but in this case of the Sci-fi genre itself and how many Sci-fi stories had (and sadly have) ideas frighteningly similar to those of Hitler.

[Maximara]

@pronatalist Sci-fi has LONG been a vehicle for exploring social issues that the current culture finds uncomfortable. Take "Swastika Night" (1937) which examined how the world under Nazi would look 700 years hence. Hitler has been made into a 7' tall blue eye blond hair god and women have degenerated to little more then baby machines resulting in problems keeping the population up.

[Maximara]

@pronatalist "Who Mourns for Adonais?" didn't mock God but rather went the Clarke's Law route--beings with very advanced technology (ie great power) would have been regarded as gods if our ancestors had encountered them. Picard had similar problems in "Who Watches the Watchers"

[pronatalist]

@Maximara

One obvious problem with "Mark of Gideon," is why is it preaching pagan enviro-religion, in a supposed sci-fi show? Hello. It's a show about SPACE SHIPS. Aren't people supposed to be spreading to more worlds? Perhaps that's why TNG was more kind towards growing human pop.

We are living in a world of layer upon layers of deception. You better wake up. Evil people have so twisted things, to confuse the gullible and uninformed, while they in their greed, spread poverty, death.

[pronatalist]

@Maximara

Either we control our numbers, or nature will? Wrong. Nature won't. Why do you think there's so many people now? In nature, life spreads into most every available niche it can, so why not all the more so, with supposedly intelligent human life?

Why do mad scientists do bizarre "overpop" experiments upon animals, giving them "unlimited" food but adding more animals to the same confines? Perhaps NWO knows people solve problems, but NWO aims to prevent any real solutions?

[pronatalist]

@Maximara

There was another TOS episode that comes to mind, that mocks God, or perhaps mocks false Greek gods anyway. Something about man having grown past having to depend upon superstition or the old gods. Who were those false gods anyway? Demons, or the weird creatures that resulted when fallen angels had sexual relations with the daughters of men and produced giants? Giants and dinosaurs that the devil corrupted the world with, would have destroyed man, but Great Deluge prevented.