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“Bread and circuses” is a phrase used in politics to describe how a party in power generates public approval. This approval is not generated through policy or excellent leadership, but through diversions, distractions and the immediate, shallow requirements of a misled public.
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A lot of our songs are told from the point-of-view of a character in the episode. Sometimes it’s Kirk, sometimes it’s Spock. Sometimes it’s from the point of view of the guest star. In this case, I decided to tell it from the point of view of the computer. In this episode, The Ultimate computer, the Enterprise is testing a new computer system that runs the ship. It is experimental, and it starts to make odd choices, like not using the captain for an away mission. Eventually, it gets out of control and, as usual, Kirk has to outsmart the computer to defeat it. He tricks it into destroying itself. Because of this, I wrote the song from the computers point of view from the moment it is activated until It ultimately commits suicide. Throughout the song it does not understand that it is doing anything wrong. It is merely existing and being itself and in charge. As it was programmed to be.
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