by me, Kerry Burgess, 05/29/2024 ~ 04:12 AM
Explicit images farther down on this page
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Blue Tree
ABOUT
Phoebe Cates Kline opened Blue Tree in the fall of 2005! Phoebe's dream was "to have it be like a general store but according to me." :) A surprise around every turn, the shop has built up a loyal following not only in the neighborhood of Carnegie Hill but all over the world. Known for its eclectic and inspired selection of women's clothing and jewelry, Blue Tree also carries unique and carefully chosen items in home, gift, fragrance, music, delicacies, etc. There are no rules. And we are always re-inventing, recreating in the hopes of delighting.
by me, Kerry Burgess, 12/08/2023 ~ 03:24 AM
anything never alive can not ever be considered as 'dead'
Wayward Pines
"The Truth"
TV-series Season 1 Episode 5
Thursday 06/11/2015
00 hours 34 minutes 31 seconds
Dr. Jenkins / David Pilcher: We can change things for the better.
[ screeching in distance ]
Dr. Jenkins / David Pilcher: Or if you prefer, you can discover for yourself what is out here.
by me, Kerry Burgess, posted by me: 1:23 PM September 9, 2021
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_eclipse_of_Darwinism
The eclipse of Darwinism
Julian Huxley used the phrase “the eclipse of Darwinism” to describe the state of affairs prior to what he called the modern synthesis, when evolution was widely accepted in scientific circles but relatively few biologists believed that natural selection was its primary mechanism.
From 2/8/1906 ( Annalen der Physik publishes Albert Einstein's doctoral dissertation on size of molecules ) To 10/23/2017 ( named by me, the arrival of Abbie-O_150-47 - illustrated here ) is 40800 days
40800 = 20400 + 20400
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/9/2021 ( ) is 20400 days
From 2/13/2015 ( from The Daily Princetonian publication, Princeton University: On Ivy League Elitism ) To 9/9/2021 ( ) is 2400 days
2400 = 1200 + 1200
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/14/1969 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Star Trek"::"Requiem for Methuselah" ) is 1200 days
From 2/14/1969 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Star Trek"::"Requiem for Methuselah" ) To 9/9/2021 ( ) is 19200 days
19200 = 9600 + 9600
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/14/1992 ( from The Daily Princetonian publication, Princeton University: Valentine's Day - A Crisis in Love ) is 9600 days
From 8/4/1959 ( reporting from The New York Times newspaper: Army Display Calls Tomorrow's Soldier 'Ultimate Weapon' ) To 6/11/2015 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Wayward Pines"::"The Truth" ) is 20400 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/9/2021 ( ) is 20400 days
From 2/18/2000 ( premiere USA film "Pitch Black" ) To 9/9/2021 ( ) is 7874 days
7874 = 3937 + 3937
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/13/1976 ( premiere USA film "Futureworld" ) is 3937 days
excerpts - see also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_eclipse_of_Darwinism
The eclipse of Darwinism
From Wikipedia
Both Darwin and his close supporter Thomas Henry Huxley freely admitted, too, that selection might not be the whole explanation; Darwin was prepared to accept a measure of Lamarckism, while Huxley was comfortable with both sudden (mutational) change and directed (orthogenetic) evolution.
http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F60D16FF3958137B93C6A91783D85F4D8585F9
The New York Times
Archives
Army Display Calls Tomorrow's Soldier 'Ultimate Weapon'; ULTIMATE WEAPON IS SHOWN BY ARMY
By JACK RAYMOND Special to The New York Times.
August 4, 1959, Tuesday
Page 1, 913 words
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 -- The Army exhibited its ultimate weapon today -- a fighting soldier of the future.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3493984/
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Wayward Pines
S1.E5
The Truth
Episode aired Jun 11, 2015
Ethan makes a shocking discovery outside of Wayward Pines
Wayward Pines
Season 1 Episode 5
"The Truth"
Aired Jun 11, 2015 on FOX
They evolved in a harsh environment and are now the single most efficient carnivores on the planet.
In the food chain, nothing else comes close, not even us.
[growling]
On its own, an Abby can kill and devour an armed soldier in a matter of minutes.
Isolated, it is possible, albeit unlikely, to overcome an Abby, but they always travel in herds.
Wayward Pines
"A Reckoning"
THERESA: You're not gonna believe this. It's Adam Hassler.
[static] [breathing heavily]
Adam?
He was in on it.
This is Adam Hassler. It's September 15, 14:20. [ the year 4020 ] Finally finally reached the city. Oh, my God. Still no signs of any survivors. It's just Abbies.
Wayward Pines
"A Reckoning"
They've been tracking us. I think it's I think it's the same group from before. Somehow they seem to be communicating with each other.
excerpts - see also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_eclipse_of_Darwinism
The eclipse of Darwinism
From Wikipedia
Motivation for alternatives
Further information: Alternatives to evolution by natural selection
A variety of different factors motivated people to propose other evolutionary mechanisms as alternatives to natural selection, some of them dating back before Darwin's Origin of Species. Natural selection, with its emphasis on death and competition, did not appeal to some naturalists because they felt it was immoral, and left little room for teleology or the concept of progress in the development of life. Some of these scientists and philosophers, like St. George Jackson Mivart and Charles Lyell, who came to accept evolution but disliked natural selection, raised religious objections. Others, such as Herbert Spencer, the botanist George Henslow (son of Darwin's mentor John Stevens Henslow, also a botanist), and Samuel Butler, felt that evolution was an inherently progressive process that natural selection alone was insufficient to explain. Still others, including the American paleontologists Edward Drinker Cope and Alpheus Hyatt, had an idealist perspective and felt that nature, including the development of life, followed orderly patterns that natural selection could not explain.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motivation
Motivation
From Wikipedia
Motivation is an internal state that propels individuals to engage in goal-directed behavior. It is often understood as a force that explains why people or animals initiate, continue, or terminate a certain behavior at a particular time. It is a complex phenomenon and its precise definition is disputed.
Motivation is studied in fields like psychology, motivation science, and philosophy.
Motivational states are characterized by their direction, intensity, and persistence. The direction of a motivational state is shaped by the goal it aims to achieve.
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Futureworld
Quotes
Ron Thurlow: Hey, do you know what this fella told me? He told me once you make it with a robot chick, that's it, you don't never want nothin' else. I swear to God, that's what he told me. Are you gonna do it?
Tracy Ballard: Do what, Ron?
Ron Thurlow: Have sex with a robot!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074559/releaseinfo
IMDb
The Internet Movie Database
Release dates for
Futureworld (1976)
Country Date
USA 13 August 1976
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0134847/releaseinfo/
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Pitch Black (2000)
Release info
United States February 18, 2000
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitch_Black_(film)
Pitch Black (film)
From Wikipedia
In the distant future, the spaceship Hunter-Gratzner is transporting passengers in cryostasis.
Micrometeoroids rupture the ship's hull, killing the captain and sending the ship off course. The ship's first officer, Owens, and the docking pilot, Carolyn Fry, attempt to land the ship on a nearby planet. As the ship falls apart, Fry decides to dump the passenger section to reduce weight, but Owens stops her. The vessel crashes into the planet's surface, most of the passengers are killed
The survivors explore their surroundings, noticing that the planet's three suns keep it in perpetual daylight. They find an abandoned geological research settlement, with a water well and a dropship that lacks power to fly.
An orrery shows that an eclipse is imminent and the creatures will be free to hunt above ground. They realize the geologists must have been all killed by the creatures during the last eclipse.
The group returns to the crash site on a solar-powered sand truck to salvage more power cells for the dropship before the eclipse, but it begins as they get there. Creatures pour out of the ground and devour Shazza and another pilgrim.
https://screenrant.com/pitch-black-bioraptor-creatures-origins-powers-explained/
Pitch Black's Creatures: Origins & Powers Explained
By Dan Meersand Published Mar 28, 2020
One of the most effective monster movies species in recent decades are the photosensitive "bioraptors" from 2000's Pitch Black
Taking place 500 years in the future, the space horror film concerns the survivors of the Hunter-Gratzner, a freighter-transport starship that crash lands on the desert planet M6-117 after the hull is ruptured by cosmic debris. Due to it's galactic position in a system with three large stars, the sun-baked barren planet exists in a state of perpetual bright daylight, except for those times when the triple suns align in a total eclipse which can last anywhere from months to decades. During these rare eclipses, which occur roughly every twenty two years, almost all life on the planet is wiped out.
The survivors seek refuge in a dark cave. Exploring it, they stumble upon a long abandoned geological research settlement, along with a derelict shuttle that could be their salvation. But they are soon set upon by the bioraptors, highly photosensitive animalistic alien creatures that live in the pitch dark cave systems beneath the sun-scorched surface above.
the eyeless, somewhat xenomorph-like bioraptors have thin streamlined bodies with large anchor shaped heads and forked tails. Their blood is a viscous blue-black color and their wings grant them limited flight. The cannibalistic monsters exist almost entirely underground and survive by feeding on their own. They emerge during the planet's rare eclipses which plunge the surface of M6-117 into darkness to massacre all other life on the planet.
https://riddick.fandom.com/wiki/Bioraptor
Bioraptor
Bioraptors are highly aggressive and animalistic creatures capable of flight and are incredibly photosensitive, with even an artificial flashlight beam capable of severely burning their bodies. They are assumed to be native to the planet M6-117 in the M-344/G System and are implied to be responsible for the extinction of most life on the planet.
Roughly every 22 years, the planet undergoes a several month long planet-wide eclipse caused by an aligning of the surrounding planets and stars. It is during this time that the bioraptors emerge from their underground dwellings and engage in mass-feeding reminiscent of locust swarms.
Their blood is thick and blue, possibly due to a concentration of copper-based hemoprotein (as opposed to iron-based hemoglobin). They have thin, streamlined bodies covered in what appears to be thick and leathery skin, wings capable of supporting limited flight, and a twin-forked tail with sharp points at the end. Hidden in both of their legs are bonespears, that they use for grabbing their opponents. Their distinctive heads seem to be made of a hard, chitinous material reminiscent of that surrounding most arthropods. Due to the nature of their total-dark environments they have no eyes, but instead have incredibly sensitive ultrasonic sensor organs capable of picking up on the most minute of sounds and giving them a detailed "view" of their environment.
It is unknown why or how a light-sensitive species evolved on a planet in a trinary star system with virtually constant and planet-wide illumination. It is possible that they were an invasive species brought to the planet by mistake or as a bio-weapon. Perhaps the planet is home to a massive planet spanning cave systems or burrows, where they evolved, which would explain their sensitivity to light.
The Infants
When the lights go out, these are the first to emerge from the massive "chimneys" leading into their system of tunnels. An immense number of these appear at the onset of the solar eclipse and tend to fly around in flocks. Alone they are only passably dangerous, but combined they represent a proverbial cloud of blades, as their strength in numbers can lift and literally tear a person to pieces,
The Adults
Often referred to as "big boys", these beasts emerge from underground shortly after the infants. The long stalks on either side of their head supporting their ultrasonic sensors have developed to be roughly 2 meters (6.5 ft) long combined. Due to how widely their sensor organs are spaced, there is a blind spot directly between them and inches away from their mouth (as Riddick discovers). They have long tails that split into two ends like a fork. Their wrists conceal spike feelers that extend longer than the Bioraptor itself to strike its prey, these wrist tentacles end in knife-like points. Their two feet are lizard-like with 4 monstrous talons radiating towards the front. They are stronger than an average human (Riddick was able to kill a single one on his own, albeit with great effort, using only his hands)
Surviving Underground
As most other preferable food sources seem to be dead, the Bioraptors seem to survive by consuming each other. The adults seem to prefer eating their young, but will swarm other adults when they cannot be caught. It is unknown whether or not there are more organisms underground.
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Pitch Black (2000)
Quotes
Riddick: I truly don't know what's gonna happen when the lights go out, Carolyn, but I do know, once the dying starts, this little psycho fuck family of ours is gonna rip itself apart.
excerpts - see also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_eclipse_of_Darwinism
The eclipse of Darwinism
From Wikipedia
Mutationism
Main article: Mutationism
Mutationism was the idea that new forms and species arose in a single step as a result of large mutations. It was seen as a much faster alternative to the Darwinian concept of a gradual process of small random variations being acted on by natural selection. It was popular with early geneticists such as Hugo de Vries, who along with Carl Correns helped rediscover Gregor Mendel's laws of inheritance in 1900, William Bateson a British zoologist who switched to genetics, and early in his career, Thomas Hunt Morgan.
The 1901 mutation theory of evolution held that species went through periods of rapid mutation, possibly as a result of environmental stress, that could produce multiple mutations, and in some cases completely new species, in a single generation. Its originator was the Dutch botanist Hugo de Vries. De Vries looked for evidence of mutation extensive enough to produce a new species in a single generation and thought he found it with his work breeding the evening primrose of the genus Oenothera, which he started in 1886. The plants that de Vries worked with seemed to be constantly producing new varieties with striking variations in form and color, some of which appeared to be new species because plants of the new generation could only be crossed with one another, not with their parents. DeVries himself allowed a role for natural selection in determining which new species would survive, but some geneticists influenced by his work, including Morgan, felt that natural selection was not necessary at all. De Vries's ideas were influential in the first two decades of the 20th century, as some biologists felt that mutation theory could explain the sudden emergence of new forms in the fossil record; research on Oenothera spread across the world. However, critics including many field naturalists wondered why no other organism seemed to show the same kind of rapid mutation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_eclipse_of_Darwinism
The eclipse of Darwinism
From Wikipedia
End of the eclipse
Main article: Modern synthesis (20th century)
During the period 1916–1932, the discipline of population genetics developed largely through the work of the geneticists Ronald Fisher, J.B.S. Haldane, and Sewall Wright. Their work recognized that the vast majority of mutations produced small effects that served to increase the genetic variability of a population rather than creating new species in a single step as the mutationists assumed. They were able to produce statistical models of population genetics that included Darwin's concept of natural selection as the driving force of evolution.
Developments in genetics persuaded field naturalists such as Bernhard Rensch and Ernst Mayr to abandon neo-Lamarckian ideas about evolution in the early 1930s. By the late 1930s, Mayr and Theodosius Dobzhansky had synthesized the ideas of population genetics with the knowledge of field naturalists about the amount of genetic diversity in wild populations, and the importance of genetically distinct subpopulations (especially when isolated from one another by geographical barriers) to create the early 20th century modern synthesis. In 1944 George Gaylord Simpson integrated paleontology into the synthesis by statistically analyzing the fossil record to show that it was consistent with the branching non-directional form of evolution predicted by the synthesis, and in particular that the linear trends cited by earlier paleontologists in support of Lamarckism and orthogenesis did not stand up to careful analysis. Mayr wrote that by the end of the synthesis natural selection together with chance mechanisms like genetic drift had become the universal explanation for evolutionary change.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_drift
Genetic drift
From Wikipedia
Versus natural selection
In natural populations, genetic drift and natural selection do not act in isolation; both phenomena are always at play, together with mutation and migration. Neutral evolution is the product of both mutation and drift, not of drift alone. Similarly, even when selection overwhelms genetic drift, it can only act on variation that mutation provides.
While natural selection has a direction, guiding evolution towards heritable adaptations to the current environment, genetic drift has no direction and is guided only by the mathematics of chance. As a result, drift acts upon the genotypic frequencies within a population without regard to their phenotypic effects. In contrast, selection favors the spread of alleles whose phenotypic effects increase survival and/or reproduction of their carriers, lowers the frequencies of alleles that cause unfavorable traits, and ignores those that are neutral.
The law of large numbers predicts that when the absolute number of copies of the allele is small (e.g., in small populations), the magnitude of drift on allele frequencies per generation is larger. The magnitude of drift is large enough to overwhelm selection at any allele frequency when the selection coefficient is less than 1 divided by the effective population size. Non-adaptive evolution resulting from the product of mutation and genetic drift is therefore considered to be a consequential mechanism of evolutionary change primarily within small, isolated populations. The mathematics of genetic drift depend on the effective population size, but it is not clear how this is related to the actual number of individuals in a population. Genetic linkage to other genes that are under selection can reduce the effective population size experienced by a neutral allele. With a higher recombination rate, linkage decreases and with it this local effect on effective population size. This effect is visible in molecular data as a correlation between local recombination rate and genetic diversity, and negative correlation between gene density and diversity at noncoding DNA regions. Stochasticity associated with linkage to other genes that are under selection is not the same as sampling error, and is sometimes known as genetic draft in order to distinguish it from genetic drift.
Low allele frequency makes alleles more vulnerable to being eliminated by random chance, even overriding the influence of natural selection. For example, while disadvantageous mutations are usually eliminated quickly within the population, new advantageous mutations are almost as vulnerable to loss through genetic drift as are neutral mutations. Not until the allele frequency for the advantageous mutation reaches a certain threshold will genetic drift have no effect.
from my private journal, as me, Kerry Burgess, typed after being released from the USA Veterans Affairs psychiatric hospital enduring many months sitting in a grungy two-computer room in a homeless shelter on the waterfront in downtown Seattle:
From: Kerry Burgess {me}
Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 11:04 AM
To: Kerry Burgess {me}
Subject: Re: Journal May 21, 2006
Kerry Burgess wrote:
I think it was my first thought after waking up this morning that I used to date Julia Roberts a long time ago.
I also have these unexplained thoughts that I was a fighter pilot in the U.S. military, although I'm not sure which service, but I may have been in two different branches over time. I am also confused about thoughts that I may have been a helicopter pilot. What's next? A space shuttle pilot? Seems like a lot for someone that is only 40. And, while I am not sure when this divergence happened, I am reasonably certain it was before I turned 33. So I must have been a pretty busy guy. Especially because I have thoughts that I was some kind of mathmetician too. I have these thoughts too that I was captured by enemy forces at some point and tortured while in captivity.
by me, Kerry Burgess, excerpts from my private journal: 9/26/2006 3:06 PM
As I was trying to go to sleep last night, I had a thought that I have a doctorate in computer science from Princeton.
and I had thoughts that I studied music as well at Princeton.
from my private journal, as me, Kerry Burgess, typed after being released from the USA Veterans Affairs psychiatric hospital enduring many months sitting in a grungy two-computer room in a homeless shelter on the waterfront in downtown Seattle:
by me, Kerry Burgess, excerpts from my private journals: 9/28/2006 7:13 PM
This sounds very interesting. In my memory of taking Physics my Senior year at Ashdown, I remember being very interested in the class, but we didn’t cover such an interesting topic.
http://www.princeton.edu/main/about/present/
Ayan Chatterjee (left) and Mark Daly measure piano strings as part of a lab project for professor Pierre Piroué's freshman seminar on "Sound, Music and ... Physics."
9/28/2006 7:37 PM
I think I even have memories of the graduate degree process. I am not sure of the terms to describe the process.
9/28/2006 7:47 PM
I actually do remember... something... I can’t explain it. It feels that I am holding an unmarked, undistinguishable book that I don’t know the name of or the contents but I know I have read it already.
9/28/2006 8:34 PM
A few minutes ago I started thinking that maybe I started at Princeton University in 1972. I would have been 13 at the time as Thomas Ray. I remember that Kerry Burgess started first grade in 1972. But then I decided that I probably started Princeton earlier than 1972 and maybe 1972 was the year I completed my first major degree. Or 1972 doesn’t really mean anything in particular to Thomas Ray; rather it is there for continuity sake for the life of Kerry Burgess.
by me, Kerry Burgess, posted by me: H.V.O.M at 3:06 AM Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Salesman
Also, "Salesman." I saw that in a dream while sleeping recently. I saw myself going through an induction process in the United States Marine Corps and I woke up understanding that I was dreaming of my actual experience in 1990. I saw a document that indicated I was being inducted to the United States Marine Corps with the officer grade of Chief Warrant Officer 2. I saw in the dream another document associated with my induction and that document indicated I had been assigned the informal name "Salesman."
Battlestar Galactica - tv miniseries - 12/08/2003, 12/09/2003
(from internet transcript)
Starbuck: Where the hell did the Cylons come from?
Adama: All we know for sure is that they achieved complete surprise and we're taking heavy losses. We lost thirty Battlestars in the opening attack.
Starbuck: That's a quarter of the fleet.
Adama: I need pilots, and I need fighters.
Starbuck: Pilots you've got - there's twenty of us climbing the walls down in the ready room, but fighters...
Adama: I think I seem to remember an entire squadron of fighters down on the starboard hangar bay yesterday.
Starbuck: (thinks about that for a second and then salutes) Yes, sir.
(Starboard hangar bay - shot of the museum railings being knocked over)
Starbuck: You're sure they'll fly?
Chief: Well, the reactor's still hot. So all we have to do is pull the rad buffers from the engine, refuel it, load the ordinance and you're ready to go. The biggest problem's gonna be getting them over to the port launch bay.
Starbuck: Why can't we use the starboard launch?
Chief: It's a gift shop now.
https://papersofprinceton.princeton.edu/princetonperiodicals/?a=d&d=Princetonian20150213-01.2.15.3&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------
https://papersofprinceton.princeton.edu/princetonperiodicals/?a=d&d=Princetonian19920214-01.1.6&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------
"Requiem For Methuselah" [ Star Trek ]
Original Airdate: 14 Feb, 1969
(from internet transcript)
Captain's log, stardate 5843.8. We have accomplished our mission and have the ryetalyn ready to combat the epidemic aboard the Enterprise. But we have also discovered our benefactor's secret. He has created the perfect woman. Her only flaw, she's not human.
[Lab two]
MCCOY: Physically human but not human. These are earlier versions of Rayna, Jim. She's an android.
FLINT: Created here by my hand. Here, the centuries of loneliness were to end.
SPOCK: Your collection of Leonardo da Vinci masterpieces, Mister Flint, they appear to have been recently painted on contemporary canvas with contemporary materials. And on your piano, a waltz by Johannes Brahms, an unknown work in manuscript, written in modern ink. Yet absolutely authentic, as are your paintings.
FLINT: I am Brahms.
SPOCK: And da Vinci?
FLINT: Yes.
SPOCK: How many other names shall we call you?
FLINT: Solomon, Alexander, Lazarus, Methuselah, Merlin, Abramson. A hundred other names you do not know.
SPOCK: You were born?
FLINT: In that region of earth later called Mesopotamia, in the year 3834 BC, as the millennia are reckoned. I was Akharin, a soldier, a bully and a fool. I fell in battle, pierced to the heart and did not die.
MCCOY: Instant tissue regeneration coupled with some perfect form of biological renewal. You learned that you were immortal and
FLINT: And to conceal it. To live some portion of a life, to pretend to age and then move on before my nature was suspected.
SPOCK: Your wealth and your intellect are the product of centuries of acquisition. You knew the greatest minds in history.
FLINT: Galileo, Socrates, Moses. I have married a hundred times, Captain. Selected, loved, cherished. Caressed a smoothness, inhaled a brief fragrance. Then age, death, the taste of dust. Do you understand?
SPOCK: You wanted a perfect, ultimate woman, as brilliant, as immortal as yourself. Your mate for all time.
FLINT: Designed by my heart. I could not love her more.
KIRK: Spock, you knew?
SPOCK: I had hoped I was wrong.
FLINT: You cannot love an android, Captain. I love her. She is my handiwork, my property. She is what I desire.
"Requiem For Methuselah" [ Star Trek ]
Original Airdate: 14 Feb, 1969
(from internet transcript)
SPOCK: Captain, your primitive impulses will not alter the circumstances.
KIRK: Stay out of this. We're fighting over a woman.
SPOCK: No, you're not, for she is not.
(Flint thumps Kirk, then repeatedly throws him across the room)
RAYNA: I cannot be the cause of this. I will not be the cause of this. Please stop. Stop! I choose where I want to go.
(The men stop fighting in astonishment)
RAYNA: what I want to do. I choose. I choose.
FLINT: Rayna!
RAYNA: No. Do not order me. No one can order me!
KIRK: She's human. Down to the last blood cell, she's human. Down to the last thought, hope, aspiration, emotion, she's human. The human spirit is free. You have no power of ownership. She's free to do as she wishes.
SPOCK: Gentlemen, I urge you to stop. There is a danger.
FLINT: No man beats me.
KIRK: I don't want to beat you. This is no test of power. Rayna belongs to herself and she claims the human right of choice to be as she wills, to do as she wills, to think as she wills.
FLINT: That's what I've worked for.
KIRK: Rayna, come with me.
FLINT: Stay.
RAYNA: I was not human. Now I love. I love.
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 06:07 AM Pacific-time USA Thursday 05/30/2024
