Where No Justice Has Gone Before?

Combining the themes of the first two posts today (i.e., the Supreme Court and Star Trek), it’s worth noting that blogger Alan K. Henderson writes:

Kathryn Jean Lopez has a question she wants posed to John Roberts (link via Glenn):

"I’d like to know if Star Trek had an influence on John Roberts and, if so, what that influence was."

Here are some responses I don’t want to hear:

  • "It is a good day to die."
  • "Strength
    is irrelevant. Resistance is futile. We wish to improve ourselves. We
    will add your distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to
    service ours."
  • "My position on Roe? How much latinum is it worth to you?"
  • "Please state the nature of the legal emergency."
  • "From hell’s heart, I stab at thee. For hate’s sake, I spit my last breath at thee."
  • "Setting dissent on stun."
  • "Don’t push your luck, pinkskin!"
  • "Engaging cloaking device." [dodging a question]
  • "Red alert! Raise shields!" [more dodging]
  • "Beam me out of here!" [yet more dodging]
  • "Really, Mr. Senator, you emotions will become your undoing."

Okay, maybe I do want to hear that last one [SOURCE].

Feel free to add your own inappropriate Star Trek answers in the combox.

Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

7 thoughts on “Where No Justice Has Gone Before?”

  1. Damn-it Ted! I’m a judge not a judicial activist.
    I know this court like the back of my hand. (Banggg!)
    (About overturnig Roe V. Wade:)
    “How do you Feel?”
    “How do you Feel?”
    “How do you Feel?”
    “I do not understand the question.”

  3. “Really, Mr. Senator, you emotions will become your undoing.”
    That’s driving me crazy where is that from?

  5. “And your parents let you live?”
    –A Romulan to Geordi when he discovered that he was blinded at an early age. Geordi then went on to save both their lives from a bad situation.
    Quite relevant to our times considering this:
    http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/232776_focus17.html
    I feel the wrath of God approaching. We don’t have much time left to fix things!
    :_(

  6. “What would you say if I offered to make you absolute ruler of the United States? No President, no Supreme Court–just you.”
    “Victory is life.” (This one’s already used by a good chunk of politicians.)

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