A. M. Gittlitz examines Star Trek's links to revolutionary socialism, here, for the New York Times.
Love it. Samuel Brexit: Waiting For Article 50. Not Endgame Yet.
Showing posts with label Law and Star Trek. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Law and Star Trek. Show all posts
July 24, 2017
January 17, 2017
Law and Star Trek: A Talk By Professor Fabrice Defferrard @FDefferrard1 @thewssociety
Professor Fabrice Defferrard presents a talk on Thursday, February 23, 2017, at The Signet Library, Parliament Square, Edinburgh, on law and Star Trek, based on his book Le droit selon Star Trek, which will be published in the UK (I think fairly soon). Here's more from the WS Society's website.
January 7, 2017
"Captain! There's a Warp Core Meltdown!" @scifipolicy
Have you ever wondered why those Star Trek spaceships seem to have so many malfunctions? This subreddit thread explores that question and proposes some answers, including that aliens just refuse to work in Federation engineering because Federation technology is, well, bad, and that the way human Federation folks approach problems is well, weird. as in, not scientific. Sort of seat of the pants, in fact. (Of course that adds to the drama, but if your own species tends toward the logical, it can be frightening). Source here, more commentary here. Via @scifipolicy.
It does pose the question, however: Doesn't Starfleet have, oh, I don't know, regulations that require inspection of starships and contracts that require build of those ships to certain specifications, and research into technology, and things like that? I smell a law review article.
It does pose the question, however: Doesn't Starfleet have, oh, I don't know, regulations that require inspection of starships and contracts that require build of those ships to certain specifications, and research into technology, and things like that? I smell a law review article.
September 23, 2016
Star Trek's Legacy: The EU Takes Note
The French TV network ARTE (funded by the European Union) has produced a number of tv episodes in honor of Star Trek's 50th anniversary. Each four-minute video has a particular theme (origins, the ST economy, etc.) Here's a list.
Episodes 1, 3, and 8 discuss law-related themes, and all are worth watching. Episodes are in English or there are English-language subtitles.
Via @F_Defferrard.
Episodes 1, 3, and 8 discuss law-related themes, and all are worth watching. Episodes are in English or there are English-language subtitles.
Via @F_Defferrard.
September 16, 2016
September 6, 2016
More Law and Star Trek: The Practicality of the Prime Directive (via @arstechnica)
ArsTechnica investigates whether the Prime Directive could ever be a universal rule of law. Here, with lawyers!
July 28, 2016
Brexit and Popular Culture
Popular culture references and comparisons are beginning to emerge in the wake of Brexit. Steve Peers @StevePeers invokes a Star Trek: The Original Series reference for a job for Nigel Farage, who has stepped down as the leader of the United Kingdom Independent Party.
Oh, feel the burn (not Sanders, or Switzerland, which is not a member state of the EU).
David Allen Green @David Allen Green quotes both Arthur Conan Doyle and Samuel Becket in tweets about failure to invoke Article 50 of the TEU.
David Allen Green @DavidAllenGreen [tweeted July 4] “The curious incident of the Article 50 notification.” - There was no notification. “That was the curious incident,” remarked Holmes. The line occurs in the short story, "Silver Blaze." Here's the excerpt.
Holmes notes that a watchdog that alerts on the presence of strangers did not do so when someone approached on this occasion. Thus, the dog knew the person who approached it, This observation has now become so obvious a deduction for pop culture detectives on tv and in film whenever a dog is in a scene that if either a professional or amateur sleuth doesn't mention the dog's behavior, viewers automatically know that the detective is an idiot (and that the screenwriter has never read the literature, or seen any mystery or detective movies or tv over the past 50 years). It would be interesting and novel to substitute a cat or a ferret for the dog in some of these scripts. Monkeys and parrots have been done, BTW (Columbo: Death Hits the Jackpot (1991)) and Perry Mason: The Case of the Perjured Parrot (1958)).
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time has also become a Tony-winning Broadway Play.
David Allen Green @DavidAllenGreen Jun 25 ESTRAGON: Well, shall we Leave? VLADIMIR: Yes, let's Leave. (They do not send the Article 50 Notification.)
(Parodying Waiting for Godot). Mr. Green has retweeted it numerous times. He is understandably quite fond of it; it's clever, but also, we've been Waiting For Brexit for a month. It's sort of like Waiting To Brexhale.
And this long hommage to Samuel Beckett, from a number of Tweeters:
Any of the jobs done by any of those guys in red shirts
#suggestajobforFarage
Oh, feel the burn (not Sanders, or Switzerland, which is not a member state of the EU).
David Allen Green @David Allen Green quotes both Arthur Conan Doyle and Samuel Becket in tweets about failure to invoke Article 50 of the TEU.
David Allen Green @DavidAllenGreen [tweeted July 4] “The curious incident of the Article 50 notification.” - There was no notification. “That was the curious incident,” remarked Holmes. The line occurs in the short story, "Silver Blaze." Here's the excerpt.
Gregory: Is there any other point to which you would wish to draw my attention.
Holmes: To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.
Gregory: The dog did nothing in the night-time.
Holmes: That was the curious incident.
Holmes notes that a watchdog that alerts on the presence of strangers did not do so when someone approached on this occasion. Thus, the dog knew the person who approached it, This observation has now become so obvious a deduction for pop culture detectives on tv and in film whenever a dog is in a scene that if either a professional or amateur sleuth doesn't mention the dog's behavior, viewers automatically know that the detective is an idiot (and that the screenwriter has never read the literature, or seen any mystery or detective movies or tv over the past 50 years). It would be interesting and novel to substitute a cat or a ferret for the dog in some of these scripts. Monkeys and parrots have been done, BTW (Columbo: Death Hits the Jackpot (1991)) and Perry Mason: The Case of the Perjured Parrot (1958)).
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time has also become a Tony-winning Broadway Play.
David Allen Green @DavidAllenGreen Jun 25 ESTRAGON: Well, shall we Leave? VLADIMIR: Yes, let's Leave. (They do not send the Article 50 Notification.)
(Parodying Waiting for Godot). Mr. Green has retweeted it numerous times. He is understandably quite fond of it; it's clever, but also, we've been Waiting For Brexit for a month. It's sort of like Waiting To Brexhale.
And this long hommage to Samuel Beckett, from a number of Tweeters:
Matthew Scott 
Tom Littler 
David Allen Green
@DavidAllenGreen @Barristerblog @lib_thinks Bravo. The last line of Endgame actually is: 'You ... remain.' (Pause. Remains motionless.)
- @DavidAllenGreen @littler_tom @Barristerblog @lib_thinks & Clov stands, ‘dressed for the road’, to leave his master at last… but never moves
- @littler_tom @DavidAllenGreen @Barristerblog @lib_thinks Barrister humour may yet challenge Military Intelligence for the Oxymoron Cup
- @startle65 @littler_tom @DavidAllenGreen @Barristerblog @lib_thinks criminal justice a good entry, presently for Oxymoron Cup
L - Finally (at least for this post), I found this quotation in Act 1 in Beckett's Waiting for Godot that may be of interest.
“Estragon: We've lost our rights?"
Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot, Act I.
"Vladimir: We got rid of them.”
We are bound to have a lot more fun with all of this, and I haven't even gotten to all the cats, Brexit, and pop culture refs yet. But let's mind the gap, keep calm and carry on, and channel our inner Brit. There's lots of humo(u)r to be had in punning and in poking fun at the apparent lack of movement in any direction, let alone One Direction. In the refusal of anyone in any official position anywhere at any time in any place to take any responsibility for anything to do with Brexit at all. Because Brexiting up is hard to do.
Gabriel Rozenberg 
Andrew Hartle 
Jane Furniss
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