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In yet another bizarre instance of life seeking to imitate art, an attorney representing a Fairfax, Va., man accused of shooting to death a federal government employee said his defendant based the crime on an episode from the TV series “Star Trek.” In opening statements at the trial last week, the attorney said there is no doubt his client stalked and gunned down his victim in a parking lot last November. But the lawyer said his client is a paranoid schizophrenic and got the idea to kill from “Eugenic Demographics,” which the attorney described as a government plot to rid society of its misfits. The attorney said he will base his defense of his client, who has also seen the movie “Rambo” at least 25 times, on an insanity plea.