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   From: kwicker1b_nospam@comcast.net   
      
   "Ubiquitous"  wrote in message   
   news:a_SdncC0wYVkW2HZnZ2dnUVZ_tydnZ2d@comcast.com...   
   > jtchew@california.com wrote:   
   >   
   >>I think the backstory of the "Star Trek" universe has humanity   
   >>undergoing a sort of velvet-gloved eugenics (don't ask me to cite   
   >>chapter and verse on this), perhaps as part of some other icky   
   >>future-Earth politics (our future, their past) that occasionally were   
   >>alluded to.   
   >   
   > Besides the Eugenics Wars?   
   >   
   > --   
   > It is simply breathtaking to watch the glee and abandon with which   
   > the liberal media and the Angry Left have been attempting to turn   
   > our military victory in Iraq into a second Vietnam quagmire. Too bad   
   > for them, it's failing.   
      
   Advances in optometry. It was mentioned in ST4 that Kirk had a rare disorder   
   that made him resistant to the standard eye treatments, which was why he had   
   to wear glasses.   
      
   -- Ken from Chicago   
      
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