Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is now officially a legal authority

[arcane1]

The wisdom of Spock has guided us all for years, but now it's enshrined in Texas law. Ruling on the limits of police power, the Texas Supreme Court quoted from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.

Ruling in Robinson vs. Crown Cork Seal Company (PDF), Justice Don Willett writes:

Appropriately weighty principles guide our course. First, we recognize that police power draws from the credo that "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few." Second, while this maxim rings utilitarian and Dickensian (not to mention Vulcan), it is cabined by something contrarian and Texan: distrust of intrusive government and a belief that police power is justified only by urgency, not expediency.

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http://io9.com/5675076/star-trek-ii-the-wrath-of-khan-is-now-a-legal-precedent

[xultar]

1. That Sharia law bullshit in KY would prevend a ruling such as this...

you know where the Texas Supreme Court quoted from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.

Yeah now that shit is illegal in at least one state because of racist white people afraid of their own fucking shadow and brown people.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Ok that made me chuckle

[Drale]

3. But Vulcans use reason

I thought reason was a offence punishable by death in texas?

[HopeHoops]

5. It is. They make you drink Shiner Boch until you explode with fruity gases.

It pretty much does that to everyone.

[WillyT]

4. LOL !!! - K & R !!!

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