Edith Keeler Must Die, Again

Four years ago, 2016, on the verge of what most sentient humans thought would be a history making election, much like eight years earlier, I wrote this, on another platform.

“Jim, Edith Keeler must die.”

Again.

Four years ago, when I originally wrote my piece, predicting that Donald Trump, a reality-show clown of a ‘businessman’ would lose to (perhaps) the most qualified candidate ever put forth, I used a 50-year-old TV episode as an allegory. I was wrong and we have been living in a warped version of Germany winning World War II since November 9, 2016.

That, fifty-four years on, Star Trek is still relevant is remarkable in terms of the times we live in. There are still social ills, poverty, racism, inequality, a selfish wealthy elite, political squabbles, religious zealots, entrenched views, disinformation (yes, even in the 1960s), xenophobia and distrust — all subject’s broached in the program’s all-too-brief three year run.

Donald Trump, by a fluke of 78,000 votes across three states, won an Electoral College victory even though he ‘lost’ the election by nearly three million votes.

In the five years plus since he rode down the escalator in his narcissistically-named building, he has flipped convention on its proverbial head. For the past 1,371 days he has dominated the conversation even when he’s not the subject of anything. Until he rode down that faux-golden escalator five years ago, he was a New York Post gadfly, turn up on Page…