Picard went through some shit.
McCoy: “I’m Jim Kirk’s therapist.”
Ezri Dax: “Ha. I’m Benjamin Sisko’s therapist.”
Troi, in corner: “AMATEURS”
Anyone who thinks that this wasn’t always the next step in the plan hasn’t studied history.
How much did they make from this scheme? I’d bet $150 million isn’t even a rounding error on their quarterlies.
Conservative interest in the invasion clause fell off during the Trump administration, then revived after Joe Biden’s inauguration.
Shocking. They’ll say anything to win an election and then there’ll be nothing but crickets afterwards.
I know that it’d be a dangerous precedent, but it’d be nice if Congress could pass a single-instance law requiring the replacement of a state government that is clearly operating outside the Constitution.
See the film Passengers for an example of cascade failures from systems trying to cover for each other.
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