Janeway Left Her Brain In The Delta Quadrant – Updated
No wonder you couldn't find a way back to Earth.
Kate Mulgrew, the tough, smart Captain Janeway from the series Star Trek: Voyager, is doing the narration for a soon-to-be released “documentary” that tries to argue that something we’ve known to be true for 500 years is wrong and Earth is actually the center of the universe — including the idea the sun revolves around it, not the other way around.
When I saw this posted on Facebook, from an article on the independent journalism site The Raw Story, I thought it had to be a joke. But the film, called The Principle, has an IMDB.com entry, and the news can be found on other sites, including the news post about Mulgrew’s involvement from mid-December on the website of the filmmaker, Robert Sungenis.
On the site GalileowasWrong.com, Sungenis spouts all kinds of horrific drivel, including Holocaust denials. Apparently Sungenis is a Catholic, and even his own local bishop asked him to stop writing anti-Semitic drivel, according to the Raw Story piece.
Shockingly, well-respected scientists like Michio Kaku and MIT cosmologist Max Tegmark are in the movie. I hope they are there trying to point out just how amazingly ignorant this toolbag Sungenis is, and how much damage his way of thinking has already done to our average national level of intelligence.
Why Mulgrew agreed to do the narration on this piece of anti-science propaganda is beyond me — the residuals checks from Voyager can’t have completely dried up. Please go do Japanese whiskey commercials like any self-respecting star if you need money that badly, Kate.
Update — One her Facebook page, Mulgrew said she was duped, and she wasn’t the only one, by the real content of The Principle. The full content of her post is:
I understand there has been some controversy about my participation in a documentary called THE PRINCIPLE. Let me assure everyone that I completely agree with the eminent physicist Lawrence Krauss, who was himself misrepresented in the film, and who has written a succinct rebuttal in SLATE. I am not a geocentrist, nor am I in any way a proponent of geocentrism. More importantly, I do not subscribe to anything Robert Sungenis has written regarding science and history and, had I known of his involvement, would most certainly have avoided this documentary. I was a voice for hire, and a misinformed one, at that. I apologize for any confusion that my voice on this trailer may have caused. Kate Mulgrew
