McCain as Captain Kirk and Obama as Mr. Spock? That’s the take from Jason Horowitz in this week’s New York Observer cover story. I
nsightful piece. Spock was mixed race, and great at times of crisis, and he always knew the right thing to do. Horowitz’s lead interview is as entertaining as the rest of the piece, too:
Leonard Nimoy approves of Barack Obama’s emotional detachment and logical approach to campaigning.
“He is measured and stable,” said Mr. Nimoy, who played Mr. Spock on Star Trek, and who has supported Mr. Obama since they first met about a year and a half ago at a small Los Angeles fund-raiser. “It’s true that he has an intellect that works for him, he handles difficult problems with aplomb. Reliability and stability are very important assets in this race, in these particularly volatile times.”
Mr. Obama, as far as anybody knows, does not greet strangers with a cloven V salute, practice debilitating neck pinches, bleed green or have a constitutional incapacity to fib. But his methodical, unflappable style and otherworldly resistance to overt displays of emotion–not to mention his temperamental inability, or refusal, to connect on a visceral level with working-class voters–makes him, by contemporary candidate standards, downright alien.
That’s usually not a good thing. Yet, with less than a month until Election Day 2008, the Vulcan is winning.
Hey, that’s an endorsement you can take to the bank. Anyone hear from Shatner?
(Via the Daily Dish)
posted October 9, 2008 at 11:42 am
You forgot one other thing… it was Captain Kirk who got the girls. Sound familiar?
posted October 9, 2008 at 1:54 pm
Given Obama’s environmental platform, one could argue that he does bleed green…..
posted October 9, 2008 at 2:18 pm
I always had a huge crush on “Mr. Spock.”
posted October 9, 2008 at 2:54 pm
I always preferred Spock to Kirk.
And Spock got a girl or two interested in him. Heck, that nurse had a crush on him for forever. *grin*
posted October 9, 2008 at 3:39 pm
And remember, Kirk was always impulsively beaming down to some planet, even though he should, as Captain, have stayed aboard the Enterprise. Let’s say it, Kirk was erratic and impulsive, a real “shoot from the hip type.” In a TV show, these qualities made him interesting to watch. In a real leadership situation, maybe a little bit too interesting.
posted October 9, 2008 at 4:54 pm
You guys are rolling now.
So where does Palin fit in? As Uhuru? (Sp?)
Biden as Scotty?
posted October 9, 2008 at 5:10 pm
Palin is Catherine Janeway (of “Star Trek: Voyager.”) Biden would make a good Scottie.
posted October 9, 2008 at 5:36 pm
No way Palin is Janeway! Janeway is cool, a great captain, lots of sass and brass. Palin is just yucky. Palin is one of the evil Klingon sisters from Star Trek: The Next Generation, what were their names? Lursa and B’tor? She’s one of them! Doesn’t matter which. Take your pick.
Question is, can Biden be enough of a “miracle worker” to get Obama’s legislation through Congress? He’ll need to be a real “fixer” like Scotty was.
posted October 9, 2008 at 6:30 pm
Sorry, Susanna’s Daughter – I was never a Janeway fan but I admit, Palin would make a darned good Klingon.
posted October 9, 2008 at 7:59 pm
Palin a Klingon? Don’t be ridiculous. The Klingons are civilized and even bath once a year whether they need to or not.
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