- 29 Jan 2020 16:37
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In the 1952 movie Affair in Trinidad, Steve Emery (Glenn Ford) visits Trinidad to investigate the murder of his brother. He falls for his sister-in-law Chris (Rita Hayward), a sultry nightclub performer. The affection is mutual, but Steve believes Chris is obstructing his search for the truth.
The prime suspect is a suave tycoon, whose shady associates include a rocket scientist with knowledge of Hitler’s V-2 program. The intrigue and tropical setting suggest an early variation of Dr. No. Hayworth shows as much cleavage as Ursula Andress and the villain asks Steve if he is a member of the British Secret Service. The real spy work, though, is done by Chris, who discovers incriminating blueprints and overhears the conspirators reveal their plot: Financed by a foreign government, they plan to construct advanced ballistic missiles that can reach nearly every part of the United States from a base in the Caribbean: a prediction of the Cuban Missile Crisis a decade later.
Voyager
I watched the Affair in Trinidad DVD on July 11, 2018. Not able to sleep, I returned to the TV and channel surfed until I found a repeat episode of Star Trek: Voyager, in which the spaceship, experimenting with slipstream travel, crashes into an icy planet, killing all on board, except for Chakotay and Kim, who were in a ship ahead of Voyager. Fifteen years later, Chakotay and Kim discover the vessel. They reanimate the holographic Doctor and retrieve Seven of Nine’s Borg-altered body. Using Seven’s interplexing beacon and a stolen Borg temporal transmitter, they send a message back in time to the living Seven that directs her to disengage the slipstream, saving Voyager and all on board.
I interpreted this episode as a message that something similar had happened regarding the Soviet missiles in Cuba. In the original timeline, the missiles were not discovered until they were all in place and launch ready. Confronted with a fait accompli, President John F. Kennedy had little wiggle room, the confrontation with the Soviets spun out of control and a nuclear war resulted. To prevent this, God or a real-life version of Doctor Who sent a message back in time implanting the Caribbean missile idea in the mind of one of the Affair in Trinidad screenwriters. Someone among JFK’s defense advisors saw the film and recommended an earlier, more intensive surveillance of Cuba, which resulted in an interruption in the missile placement and an opportunity to negotiate a solution with Nikita Khrushchev.
The prime suspect is a suave tycoon, whose shady associates include a rocket scientist with knowledge of Hitler’s V-2 program. The intrigue and tropical setting suggest an early variation of Dr. No. Hayworth shows as much cleavage as Ursula Andress and the villain asks Steve if he is a member of the British Secret Service. The real spy work, though, is done by Chris, who discovers incriminating blueprints and overhears the conspirators reveal their plot: Financed by a foreign government, they plan to construct advanced ballistic missiles that can reach nearly every part of the United States from a base in the Caribbean: a prediction of the Cuban Missile Crisis a decade later.
Voyager
I watched the Affair in Trinidad DVD on July 11, 2018. Not able to sleep, I returned to the TV and channel surfed until I found a repeat episode of Star Trek: Voyager, in which the spaceship, experimenting with slipstream travel, crashes into an icy planet, killing all on board, except for Chakotay and Kim, who were in a ship ahead of Voyager. Fifteen years later, Chakotay and Kim discover the vessel. They reanimate the holographic Doctor and retrieve Seven of Nine’s Borg-altered body. Using Seven’s interplexing beacon and a stolen Borg temporal transmitter, they send a message back in time to the living Seven that directs her to disengage the slipstream, saving Voyager and all on board.
I interpreted this episode as a message that something similar had happened regarding the Soviet missiles in Cuba. In the original timeline, the missiles were not discovered until they were all in place and launch ready. Confronted with a fait accompli, President John F. Kennedy had little wiggle room, the confrontation with the Soviets spun out of control and a nuclear war resulted. To prevent this, God or a real-life version of Doctor Who sent a message back in time implanting the Caribbean missile idea in the mind of one of the Affair in Trinidad screenwriters. Someone among JFK’s defense advisors saw the film and recommended an earlier, more intensive surveillance of Cuba, which resulted in an interruption in the missile placement and an opportunity to negotiate a solution with Nikita Khrushchev.
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