Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for August 01, 2015

The seal of approval will decide who’s right and who’s left, but it looks like it will be arbitrary.

Maybe Wiley is telling us to move some polar bears to Antarctica, so that they will survive climate change, because there currently not any south of Alaska, Canada or Russia.

Not only that, but an orca wouldn’t fit into the panel.

[I only noticed the above comments after I pasted in the pic-honest. Anyway, on that note…].Nightwish, Planet Hell

I was (am) a science fiction reader, not sword and sorcery or magic, but real science based. I think I only watched one episode of Star Trek. I remember the whole episode was about building a mechanical dog for some kid in the hold with the entire surviving population from a planet or something. Anyway it was so drivel driven that I never watched the show again. I’m just not a TV person anyway. For some reason I never got the TV habit. I’m 75 years old and had rather waste my time commenting on cartoons on GoComics.

It’s a sea lion; it has ear flaps.

….Star Bellied Sneetches…..

Sad, those guys should not argue , change is already here. Both are in the same dilemma. What is their difference?

“You’ve combed the galaxy looking for support and all you found was monocolored bleeding hearts”As I recall, they were locked in mortal combat and fell into a time warp that would let them struggle for eternity.

" As the arbiter of good taste, I say, one of you guys has got to go ahead and take the plunge…"

Star Trek had some really hokey special effects, but it was back while I was in Viet Nam, which, made many of Rodenerry’s social commentaries relevant, and beyond the mental capacity of what would today be "the extreme right’. Which, speaking of change or the lack thereof, that group is still just the same old JBS of the 60’s.

The color thing is interesting as those black and white penguins are prime seal (or sea lion) food, while seals are prime Orca food. Is that another opportunity for metaphor?

Sorry to correct one of our most loquacious members, but the title was “Let That Be Your Last Battlefield”. Gene Roddenberry said that this story was clearly a statement on the troubled race-relations of the times, and that if the same message had been presented in a contemporary (meaning real black vs white humans) setting, the censors & sponsors would never allow it to be broadcast. However, make it in the 23rd century and on a space ship — low and behold it’s OK. (and FWIW, that’s the fresh-from-Riddlerdom Frank Gorshin as the ‘white’ alien.)

go check out this strip GIRTH by Steve Powell

ACtually, if you examine the Original “Trek” series in relation to the Politics of the time, you discover that the “Federation” was the Good Old USA, the Klingons were Russian, the Vulcans were Japanese and the Romulans were the Chinese..There was even the episode where they “discovered” that the “Planet of the week” was a Duplicate of the USA right down to the American Flag and the Constitution that they had somehow manged to forget how to Read.They were about to Kill Kirk when he spotted it and began Reciting it from Memory, thereby convincing them that he was a Good Guy..Hokey didn’t even Begin to describe many of those scripts.…

No, I mean who is right for breakfast and who is left for lunch.

That was what Roddenberry hoped for…