Colonel Phillip Green was a despotic militia leader on Earth who operated from the early 21st century until after World War III. Green, known for his motto, "Overwhelm and devastate," was notorious for striking at his enemies during treaty negotiations. (TOS: "The Savage Curtain"; ENT: "Demons")
During the war, Green led a faction of violent eco-terrorists whose actions led to the death of some thirty-seven million people. (ENT: "In a Mirror, Darkly, Part II", display graphic)
Barely three years after a cease fire ended the war, he ordered the euthanasia of hundreds of thousands of radiation-damaged Humans, so that future generations would not endure the horrible disease. Green outlined his rationale by speaking to a crowd about how they must "reject the impure and cast it out." (ENT: "Demons")
Green's post-war killing of many radiation-damaged Humans was met with mixed feelings by survivors, many regarding him as nothing more than a genocidal madman. Others saw him as a pragmatic visionary who "humanely" euthanized radiation-damaged individuals, preventing those afflicted and their descendants from passing on deadly mutations and the suffering that would come with that. (ENT: "Demons") This controversial and contentious posthumous view of Green resulted in heated debates about him and the impact of his policies for many years; among the students of Green's teachings, years afterward, John Frederick Paxton made use of his ideologies to lead a group known as Terra Prime in an unsuccessful bid to expel all non-Humans from the Sol system in 2155. (ENT: "Terra Prime")
