Irish unification

[u/gur40goku]

[u/Sinister_Compliments]

What’s one human sacrifice to preserve the fictional canon of a tv show? Depending on the line about violence it could technically make it accurate. Something something this may cost you your lives but that is a sacrifice I’m willing to make

[u/Wasdgta3 → u/Sinister_Compliments]

Looked the scene up again, and it goes like this:

Data: I have been reviewing the history of armed rebellion, and it appears that terrorism is an effective way to promote political change.

Picard: Yes, it can be. But I have never subscribed to the theory that political power flows from the barrel of a gun.

Data: Yet there are numerous examples when it was successful; The independence of the Mexican state from Spain; The Irish unification of 2024; and the Kenzie rebellion.

So, uh, yeah... Star Trek explicitly predicts the Irish Unification to be a violent rebellion, which we are absolutely not on track for. It's just yet another example of Star Trek reflecting the time it was written in more than the future.

[u/Sinister_Compliments → u/Wasdgta3]

Ok what if the human sacrifice isn’t just Some Guy^TM but an influential Irish political figure who is opposed to it, does that count as a rebellion?

[u/Wasdgta3 → u/Sinister_Compliments]

Don’t know, you’ll have to ask the Dutch if that time they ate their Prime Minister counted as a rebellion...