When the Enterprise discovers their sister ship Exeter in orbit of a planet, they find the Exeter crew has been raptured. What's "Left Behind" is just piles of crystal meth. Meanwhile, in a different episode of Star Trek: The Original Series, some people are doing some performative jingoistic American Christian nationalism. How are these two stories connected? Very tenuously.

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