Name: 根據實際事件改編的《星際迷航》劇集 (Star Trek Episodes That Were Based On Actual Events)
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Believe it or not, Star Trek's sci-fi escapades have often been based on actual events that

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Let's boldly go where no fan has gone before and look at some of the true stories that

Star Trek loves to talk about politics and social justice, but at the same time, the

original series seemed to contradict the message, what with its long track record of ditzy women

in impossibly short skirts who lack any sort of self-reliance or tenacity.

If you've ever found that annoying, it might comfort you to know that Star Trek writers

Herb Solow and Robert Justman often used racy content to distract television censors of

the time from the show's otherwise political content.

In the second season episode "A Private Little War," Kirk contemplates the ethics of intervening

in someone else's war, a fairly controversial subject for the time.

"We are wise enough to know that we are wise enough not to interfere in the way of a man,

During the episode, he kisses a partially-dressed woman, with an open mouth, no less.

That particular scene was actually written for the purpose of drawing attention away

from the episode's storyline, which was a thinly veiled commentary on whether or not

the United States should get involved in Vietnam.

It was a pretty genius move, and it worked.

The episode aired in February 1968, just after the launch of the Tet Offensive.

Over a century after Jack the Ripper stopped terrorizing the Whitechapel district of London,

He's been featured in films, television shows, comic books, video games, and pretty much

every other type of media you can think of.

And for some reason, Star Trek used Jack the Ripper as inspiration for the 1967 episode

A woman causes an accident that gives Scotty a concussion, so Kirk and McCoy take him to

a pleasure planet that winds up looking rather suspiciously like the Whitechapel district

While they're down there, women keep getting killed, and Scotty keeps getting found holding

a bloody knife, so things aren't looking good for everybody's favorite engineer.

"This happened under Argelian jurisdiction.

If they want to arrest him, try him, even convict him, I have to go along with it."

"But he's suffering from a severe concussion!"

In case you were worried, Scotty isn't the killer.

If he were, we would've missed out on decades of his charming Scottish brogue.

Do you not know a jail break when you see one?"

No, the real killer is the actual Jack the Ripper, who as it turns out is a formless

entity that needs fear and also foggy streets to survive.

Not every based-on-a-true-story Star Trek episode is meant to be a complex political

Some are written simply for the purpose of being silly and entertaining.

Instead, they're inspired by conspiracy theories that are probably just nonsense.

Season four of Deep Space Nine tackles the complex social problem of people who actually

think the government might be hiding aliens at Area 51.

In "Little Green Men," Quark, Rom, Odo, and Nog are accidentally sent back in time to

The episode handily explains the 1947 crash of the high-altitude balloon that spawned

decades of conspiracy theories and culminated in the 2019 storming of Area 51 for what it

really was: the crash of a Ferengi shuttle piloted by a race of super-capitalist humanoid

Sometimes it takes a big thing to shine a light on important social problems.

Before the riot at Attica prison in 1971, many American inmates were kept in deplorable

At Attica, prisoners were allotted one shower a week and one roll of toilet paper a month.

Things came to a head when the prisoners rebelled, taking hostages and releasing a list of demands.

Notably, the prisoners' list of demands didn't include "let us out of prison."

It was mostly just a plea for more humane conditions, including religious freedom, an

end to the censorship of their personal correspondence, and better living conditions.

The Attica riot changed prisoner treatment in America, and it was the inspiration for

a key incident in Deep Space Nine's two-part episode "Past Tense."

In this time-traveling episode, writer Ira Behr drew from the Attica prison riot when

constructing the 2024 Bell Riots, an incident in which the occupants of a repressive Sanctuary

District for homeless and unemployed people rebel.

As far as Star Trek's Earth is concerned, the event helped usher humans towards the

peaceful, post-scarcity society enjoyed by Kirk and friends.

"The Troubles" is the phrase used to describe the conflict in Northern Ireland between 1968

While the mostly Protestant unionists wanted Northern Ireland to remain part of the United

Kingdom, the mostly Catholic nationalists, led by the Irish Republican Army, or IRA,

The confrontation resulted in the deaths of around 3,600 people.

Star Trek: The Next Generation's season three episode "The High Ground" is about a violent

conflict between the people of the planet Rutia Four and a bomb-planting group of rebel

The parallels between Ansata and the IRA are so thinly veiled that Data and Picard actually

have an on-screen conversation about the parallels between Ansata and the IRA.

Data even says that the conflict in Northern Ireland is an example of successful terrorism.

"I have been reviewing the history of armed rebellion, and it appears that terrorism is

an effective way to promote political change."

The episode aired in 1990, when the real conflict was still very much a thing, and the content

was alarming enough to the British powers of TV that it was heavily edited in the United

Kingdom and Ireland, which included the removal of the Data/Picard conversation.

As of 2109, it has still never been shown in its entirety on the Emerald Isle.

Star Trek's habit of drawing on real life sometimes even dips into medical mysteries

of the past in order to flesh out a character or just add some depth to a story line.

One such example is the similarity between the memory condition suffered by Captain Archer

in the Enterprise episode "Twilight" and the story of a real-life medical case from 1953.

In the show, Archer suffers from a disorder caused by parasites that live in non-linear

time, which causes all new memories to fade within a few hours.

"They haven't caused any tissue damage, but they're impairing certain synaptic functions.

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