over two decades years earlier, John Erman directed "NIGHTMARE", an episode of The Outer Limits.... this screenshot...of a young Martin Sheen....anticipated the hushing denial that had been increasingly prevalent, until then.. as his Voice is taken away.....(by Aliens, of course). The episode also starred James Shigeta, who remained a closeted gay man during his entire lifetime.....
This Episode's anti-military subtext is that the 'inhuman' Ebonites (hmm....Vulcans?) actually represented Civility and Ethical Consciousness, as they protest the ubiquitous testing, brainwashing and Societal Control by a Rightist Government....... Take a last, deep breath, Andrew Beckett and Michael Pierson, and 'say the heartfelt words', not legalese, for this could be what we will remember.......
Hopeful Reconciliation requires collusive alltogetherness, even if that is within the containment perpetuated by a conforming, uniform Society, in which each member merely wants to 'be a part of the Team'.....like a centipede leg, of many, mimicing, in metachronal waves, a prescribed/designated path of mindless conformity that has evolved from the haunches of impetuous escapism to the front legs of willful survival....
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