Seen elsewhere... OccupyStarfleet:
What's interesting about this (other than the dead-on accurate portrayal of idiot hippies) is the use of the word "Herbert" to shout down Kirk. It was only a few days ago that the exact same Alinsky technique was used to
shout down Opie & Anthony using the rhymes-with-Herbert word, "pervert." Coincidence or did the writers know of Alinsky and his techniques?
Also note the "we are one" hand symbol which is the exact same O'Bama "O" hand symbol that was used in the 2008 campaign. Makes you wonder if it was merely coincidence that the hand symbols were the same or did the O'Bama worshipers copy it from the Star Trek episode thinking it to be really cool and hip 1960's crap. (Funny... no one seems to be using that zero symbol all that much now.)
Anyway, as you watch this excerpted episode you can almost (but thankfully not) smell the hippies.
Gene Roddenberry was a visionary in
so many ways. I actually saw (and heard) him speak once when I was a teenager. I never would have guessed that he would be so right about hippies being a permanent scourge that humankind will apparently never be rid of.
The Star Trek episode has a happy ending, though, when the space hippies win the Darwin Award. We here on Earth are sadly stuck with the blight.