Major legal war in Supreme Court decided by use of interplanetary counsel as STAR TREK’s MR. SPOCK was made an authority in jurisprudence of the highest order!
SFWA.org reported that when the Texas SupremeCourt wrote their opinion in the case Robinson v. Crown Cork and Seal they cited Spock, the Vulcan master of logic, thereby making him a legal authority for interpreting the Texas Constitution.
As the judges wittily writ, “…while this maxim rings utilitarian and Dickensian (not to mention Vulcan21), it is …something contrarian and Texan: distrust of intrusive government and a belief that police power is justified only by urgency, not expediency.
“Footnote 21 reads: See STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN (Paramount Pictures 1982). The film references several works of classic literature, none more prominently than A Tale of Two Cities.
“Spock gives Admiral Kirk an antique copy as a birthday present, and the film itself is bookended with the book’s opening and closing passages.
“Most memorable, of course, is Spock’s famous line from his moment of sacrifice: “Don’t grieve, Admiral. It is logical. The needs of the many outweigh . . .” to which Kirk replies, “the needs of the few.”
Fascinating . . .
