Most things that came out of Star Trek are just not known to most mainstream people. But some do make them out into the real world. One of the best known is the goatee parallel universe. In the episode Mirror, Mirror four Enterprise crew members get accidentally sucked into a parallel universe where the good guys are bad and vice-versa. The big thing about this episode is that Spock has a mustache and goatee where as in the normal universe, he's clean shaven. Since then its been an inside joke to show someone in a parallel universe with a goatee or some other facial hair. South Park did it and all 4 kids from the parallel universe had goatees. Very amusing.
Anyway, the reason I mentioned that was this article I read this morning. In it, John Kerry is shown as having suck to a strong message about current issues and not made his war record the center piece of his campaign, which seems to be causing him all kinds of annoyances. Its very easy to imagine that if he was following this line of campaign, he would be crushing Bush now instead of being in a dead heat. However, if he had followed this campaign idea he probably wouldn't have gotten the nomination as evidenced by the comments at the bottom of the article.
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