{"id":1010,"date":"2003-03-17T14:42:15","date_gmt":"2003-03-18T06:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/03\/17\/the-speech-follows-no-logical-pattern\/"},"modified":"2019-12-04T15:13:52","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T23:13:52","slug":"the-speech-follows-no-logical-pattern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/03\/17\/the-speech-follows-no-logical-pattern\/","title":{"rendered":"The speech follows no logical pattern"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15097,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.thismodernworld.com\\\/weblog\\\/mtarchives\\\/week_2003_03_16.html#000313&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20130513120212\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.thismodernworld.com:80\\\/weblog\\\/mtarchives\\\/week_2003_03_16.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 13:42:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-04 22:51:01&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-04 22:51:01&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thismodernworld.com\/weblog\/mtarchives\/week_2003_03_16.html#000313\" title=\"Heh\">Tom Tomorrow<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  The entire situation is reminiscent, as someone pointed out on Atrios, of the old Star Trek episode &#8220;Patterns of Force&#8221; (in which) Federation history professor John Gill becomes the drugged leader of a Nazi planet:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n    GILL (seen on TV at a rally): If we fulfill our own greatness,<br \/>\n    that will all be ended. Working together &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>    SPOCK: Captain, the speech follows no logical pattern. Random sentences strung together.<\/p>\n<p>    MCCOY: He looks drugged, Jim, almost in a cataleptic state.<\/p>\n<p>    GILL: &#8230;reach our goal, and we will reach that goal. (cheering) Every thought&#8230;directed toward a goal. This planet&#8230;can become a paradise, if we are willing to pay the price. As each cell in the body&#8230;works with discipline and harmony for the good&#8230;of the entire being &#8212;\n  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The entire situation is reminiscent, as someone pointed out on Atrios, of the old Star Trek episode &#8216;Patterns of Force&#8217; (in which) Federation history professor John Gill becomes the drugged leader of a Nazi planet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042,2047],"tags":[557,6,14,4097,1588],"class_list":["post-1010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-star-trek","tag-george-w-bush","tag-humor","tag-politics","tag-star-trek","tag-tos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}