The Best Protest March Ever
I miss the days of protest marches. The thrill! The high! Joining with fellow believers to carry signs and march and stand together for A Cause. Anti-war, civil rights, impeach Nixon, I marched in them all.
But the one most memorable for me and closest to my heart was the Big Fight, the one we ultimately lost. I'm talking about the great protest rally of 1967 at NBC studios when they were threatening to cancel "Star Trek." the original TV series. My poster said, "Mr. Spock Says It Is Illogical To Cancel This Show." It was a lot to put on a sign and so the letters were small and cramped and no one could read it, but the thought was there.
The show was ultimately cancelled, but Star Trek never really left us. A new movie (number eleven, I believe) is in the works (working title: Star Trek Zero) chronicling the early days of James T. Kirk and his fellow USS Enterprise crew members. I like to think that my protest sign and I are responsible for this.
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