Showing posts with label Russian Revolution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Russian Revolution. Show all posts

Friday, April 27, 2012

Star Trek Timeline: 20th Century


1903: The Wright Brothers

1914-18: World War I

1915: Einstein’s Theory of Relativity

1917: Russian Revolution

1929: Great Depression begins

1930: Kirk, Spock, and McCoy travel to old Chicago where they meet Edith Keeler and have to ensure her death to save the world.

1932: Redjac kills 7 women in China

1933: Hitler assumes power in Germany

1937: Amelia Earhart and 300 humans are kidnapped by the Briori and transported to the Delta Quadrant to work as slaves.

1930s: Xindi Civil War

1939-45: World War II

1944: In an alternate timeline, Archer stops Vosk in the temporal cold war.

1945: A-Bomb ends World War II

1945-1992: Cold War

1947: Ferengi shuttle crashlands at Roswell, New Mexico

1950s: Border dispute between Vulcans and Andoria begins

1957: A Vulcan ship crashes at Carbon Creek, Pennsylvania. The crew remain on Earth for a time.

1957: Sputnik

1958: NASA founded

1967: Timeship Aeon crashes in the High Sierras. Henry Starling finds the technology and creates the computer age.

1968: Gary Seven sabotages an orbital nuclear weapons platform

1969: The Enterprise is accidentally hurdled back to 1969. Spock figures out how to send them back to the 23rd century.

1969: Apollo 11 reaches moon

1969: Quinn attends Woodstock

1974: Redjac kills 5 women in Kiev

1976: NASA unveils the space shuttle prototype, Enterprise

1986: Admiral Kirk and crew travel to 20th century Earth to find humpback whales to talk to the whale probe in the 23rd century.

1991: U.S.S.R. dissolves. American President George H.W. Bush declares the Cold War over a few months later in 1992.

1992: Khan Noonien Singh seizes power

1993: Eugenics Wars begin when a group of “supermen” seize power. The war is a covert action that somehow the world’s leaders managed to keep out of the news. History records the events much later.

1996: Eugenics Wars end. Khan goes into exile aboard SS Botany Bay after an encounter with Gary Seven.

1996: Evidence of life on Mars

1996: Voyager thrown back in time by Captain Braxton. The crew stops Henry Starling from accidentally destroying Earth.

1997: Mars Rover launched

2000: International Space Station inaugurated

Thursday, June 4, 2009

Most Liberal Movies of All Time

They are in chronological order and it consists of movies I have seen...

The Conservative List will be unveiled next week...

12 Angry Men (1957)

Henry Fonda is a defense attorney’s dream juror. Watching this movie is enough to make one believe there is reasonable doubt in the Lincoln assassination. The most unbelievable scene centered around a knife. What are the odds that middle aged lily white Fonda would be carrying the same type of switchblade as a brother from the hood?

Dr. Strangelove (1964)

This is one funny movie. It spoofs nuclear holocaust, the Cold War, and makes poignant use of American-Nazi ties following World War II. There is too much in this movie to analyze for a short post. Also, it has one of my favorite movie lines (uttered by George C. Scott): “We must not allow a mine shaft gap!” 10 girls for every boy is enough to make one long for the apocalypse.

The China Syndrome (1979)

A nuclear power plant has some issues, the folks in charge cover it up, and the plant has a meltdown. The movie implies the company was more than willing to kill to keep their profit margin. In the liberal universe, corporate America kills. In the conservative universe, the government kills.

Reds (1981)

Communists are harmless. A revolution is a big old party! It’s exciting. It’s an adventure. At points, it’s downright sappy. They do eventually get to the harsh realities of the Revolution, but by then the audience is ready for revolution. Workers Unite!

Wall Street (1987)

Greed is good. Greed is excess. Wall Streeters have no morals. This movie demonstrates the typical left wing view of the 1980s in particular and in Corporate America in general.

Dances With Wolves (1990)

Kevin Costner goes Native American. The most PC movie ever made! No doubt, liberals watching Dances with Wolves today will make connections between the aggressive interrogations in the film with the Bush Administration. Since the film is set in 1863, Lincoln must be held accountable for the abuse of Kevin Costner and all Native peoples.

Waterworld (1995)

Global warming melts the ice caps and all the bad guys are smokers.

Independence Day (1996)

The writers decided to throw in a message about diversity in the film. They made sure they had one of everything (white man, rich white woman, poor black woman, black man, gay man, Jewish man, old man, young man, dog, etc. etc.) It became annoying. Interestingly, at the time of the film, audiences cheered when the White House was blown up.

Bulworth (1998)

This is one of the worst films ever made. Forget about the liberal message. Warren Beatty: Ghetto Superstar?!?

Fahrenheit 911 (2004)

Iraqis playing with Kites and living well under Saddam. Americans living like Darfur refugees. Bush-Bin Laden are in bed together. One of the most interesting works of fiction in years! Unfortunately, there are enough stupid people in the world for Michael Moore to fool.