perfect for roquefort cheese: too perfect—you poor fools, your own creation destroyed you (13. 094)

Saturday, 17 January 2026

too perfect—you poor fools, your own creation destroyed you (13. 094)

As ugly and tone-deaf as recycling Nazi slogans by the Trump regime has been, the irony of the Secretary of War’s visit to Elon Musk’s SpaceX headquarters in Starbase, Texas has achieved escape velocity in rolling out a vision to make Star Trek a reality—see previously and missing the franchise’s vision of a utopian, post-scarcity society (not withstanding serious problems with Paramount and CBS, please don’t appropriate Star Trek for your nefarious agenda)—with the Arsenal of Freedom campaign, lifted from the title of a 1988 episode of TNG. Neither Musk nor Hegseth, excitedly promoting the integration of artificial intelligence models across the defence department to inform and expedite decision making at all levels, seemed to recalled that in the season one cautionary tale, the Enterprise on an expedition to the planet Minos to search for a missing Federation vessel meets a holographic, fast-talking weapons sales representative touting an automated offensive system, Echo Papa 607 drone fleet package, the rogue AI programmed for self-preservation with the capability to upgrade itself to counter any threat, eventually realising that the missing ship and the entire Minosian civilisation were destroyed by escalating machine warfare. Captain Picard ends the sales pitch and demonstration, having nearly taken out the Enterprise as well, by saying that they will buy it and sabotages the central command computer before leaving orbit.