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Trekkies vs TSA

Posted by freedomforall 10 years, 8 months ago to Government
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  • Posted by freedomforall 10 years, 8 months ago
    Again, quoting Orwell,
    "Those who abjure violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf."
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  • Posted by $ jlc 10 years, 8 months ago
    Wonderful story. Hurrah for the author! The reason Whoopie Goldberg was featured (ie asked for a role) on TNG was that she had grown up watching Uhura and thinking, "Well - at least one of us made it into space."

    I do not care if someone says Trekkie or Trekker. It is one of the few non-dystopian universes where we go and explore and colonize space and experiment with different philosophies of governance. And meet aliens. Lots of aliens.

    I Want Warp Drive, and I want it NOW.


    Jan
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  • Posted by Non_mooching_artist 10 years, 8 months ago
    A friend of mine met her last month in the airline's lounge, and was sitting next to her on the flight. He said she was so interesting to talk to, and a lovely woman.
    I'm glad this man spoke up as he did! Good for him and any others out there who have done the same! We are not chattel to be treated as such, and to be thought of as having to obey the dictator-esque, drunk-on-their-own-power minions is insulting in the extreme.
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  • Posted by Owlsrayne 10 years, 8 months ago
    Hooray for a Trekker standing up for one of the most endearing, beautiful woman in the world. As far as I'm concerned she is way above TSA agent pay grade.
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  • Posted by xthinker88 10 years, 8 months ago
    I just wonder how it went for him with his security check.

    I have argued with a TSA guy at one point about something in my luggage. But I was careful to keep it light and laugh a bit like I was joking. I got away with it.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 10 years, 8 months ago
    Loved this story.
    I'm only glad that the guy speaking up wasn't forced to strip down and miss his flight. Maybe more of us should speak up even if we have to pay a price.
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  • Posted by mccannon01 10 years, 8 months ago
    TSA: Thousands Standing Around. I've witnessed others as well as had my own bad experiences with those creepy tin star petty bureaucrats. Made me miss a flight once and I'll never forget it.

    Uhura 81. Gosh time flies. Loved her in the '60s, still do now. I just completed ripping my DVDs of the original series into my online library so I can watch them on Apple TV without having to change out the disks.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 10 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Memory jolt! I first read that "no, I'm a Trekker" huff and puff stamp a foot complaint made in my dad's TV Guide way back in the 60s when my home town only had four TV channels.
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  • Posted by DaveM49 10 years, 8 months ago
    Someone has found a way to "reason" with the TSA: "Do you have ANY idea who she is?"

    I strongly suspect the TSA creep did not.

    Has it occurred to anyone that TSA protocol has created large, fixed crowds of people AHEAD OF any security screening which would be perfect targets for some bug-eyed terrorist? You can bet that it has to some bug-eyed terrorist.
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  • Posted by Zenphamy 10 years, 8 months ago
    Incredible, Thanks for finding and posting. But 81, god I'm getting old.
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 10 years, 8 months ago
    Awesome (other than most fans would balk at being called a trekkie, they are Trekkers).
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 10 years, 8 months ago
    Doesn't the TSA remind you of the guy at The State Science Institute that Dagny blows away? He was just "following orders".
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