The Texas Supreme Court has cited Mr. Spock in a legal opinion, but it was a scene from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, which makes it okay. If they’d pulled something from the one where they searched for God beyond the limits of the galaxy, I’d have been quite upset.
The Needs of the Many
Brian Spears
Brian Spears is Senior Poetry Editor of The Rumpus and the author of A Witness in Exile (Louisiana Literature Press, 2011). His poem “Upon Reading That Andromeda Will One Day Devour Triangulum and Come For Us Next” was featured in Season 9 of Motion Poems.