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70 members of Star Trek's cast and crew just wrote an epic anti-Trump letter.
Upworthy ^ | September 30, 2016 | Jon Comulada

Posted on 10/01/2016 2:57:32 PM PDT by Salman

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In an unapologetically frank open letter, published to a Facebook page called Trek Against Trump, "Star Trek" actors, directors, producers, and crew members expressed their political stance that Donald Trump represents the opposite of everything "Star Trek" stands for and should not be allowed anywhere near the presidency.

"We cannot turn our backs on what is happening in the upcoming election," the letter reads. "Never has there been a presidential candidate who stands in such complete opposition to the ideals of the Star Trek universe as Donald Trump."

The letter was signed by J.J. Abrams (director of the 2009 "Star Trek" reboot), Scott Bakula (the captain from "Star Trek: Enterprise"), Eugene "Rod" Roddenberry (son of "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry), many members of the late Leonard Nimoy's family, and many more.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: liberal; liberalmedia; media; startrek
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To: Reily

I haven’t seen a single one of the Abrams Star Trek’s and don’t plan to!


61 posted on 10/01/2016 3:27:15 PM PDT by Reily
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To: Salman

Next you’ll tell me the Tony Awards and Grammys aren’t a Trump love-in.


62 posted on 10/01/2016 3:27:58 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: Salman
They were all assimilated.
63 posted on 10/01/2016 3:32:55 PM PDT by jetson
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To: Salman

Letter from has-beens to the WILL CERTAINLY BE!


64 posted on 10/01/2016 3:33:05 PM PDT by JayAr36 (GOPe is really worried they will lose their gravy train)
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To: Salman

Frankly, I don’t give a damn about “the values of the Star Trek universe,” whatever they might be, nor do I value the opinions of entertainers above those of the average person.


65 posted on 10/01/2016 3:33:07 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle ("Above all, shake your bum at Burton.")
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To: Salman

Stupidity and hyperbole. Shame, I have been a long time Trekkie - hard core - but this is pretty much it. There was no need for them to politicize a fandom.


66 posted on 10/01/2016 3:33:11 PM PDT by reaganaut (I'm looking forward to Trump as President. I'm an Evangelical and I vote.)
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To: Salman

This isn’t Reason. This is offended PC, so deeply lodged in their minds that they can’t see anything but IT. These people are effectively crazy.


67 posted on 10/01/2016 3:33:31 PM PDT by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job....)
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To: Salman

And I am supposed to care what a bunch of egotistical, self-absorbed Liberal nincompoops, convinced of the overwhelming importance of their political opinions say because ... ????


68 posted on 10/01/2016 3:34:29 PM PDT by kschockeynut87 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my GOD, my family and my country.)
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To: Salman

Ya know, I was enjoying Bakula in NCIS New Orleans so I wish he had just shut up and acted. Now I don’t want to watch anymore.


69 posted on 10/01/2016 3:36:59 PM PDT by CAluvdubya (<---has now left CA for NV, where God/guns have not been outlawed! She's done and he's won!)
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To: Salman

The fact that these people acted in a sci-fi TV show matters not a whit to me. They see themselves as far more significant than I do. Never have I asked myself “Would Spock vote for this man?” Not even once.
People who think this matters are the type who half believed that the Daily Show is real news and “West Wing” was based on real White House events.


70 posted on 10/01/2016 3:37:23 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: Salman
This is for the Star Whiners!


71 posted on 10/01/2016 3:37:30 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (In a time of universal deceit - teIlling the truth is a revolutionary act! George Orwell)
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To: Salman

Gee, I didn’t know tv shows stood for something I thought that they were entertainment. All those years watching Bugs Bunny and then later Laugh-In and Green Acres, I had no idea that they stood for something profound.


72 posted on 10/01/2016 3:37:55 PM PDT by jonathonandjennifer
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To: Salman

Yeah. And once 2 lib directors proclaimed their antiTrumpism, 68 others followed along because they want to keep their jobs.

Lots of other Americans would like to keep their jobs, too.


73 posted on 10/01/2016 3:38:18 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (I had a cool idea for a new tagline and I forgot it!)
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To: MUDDOG

Ensign Chekov got smashed by his jeep a couple weeks ago ( the new characters actor)...


74 posted on 10/01/2016 3:38:26 PM PDT by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: CAluvdubya

Guess they don’t need patriot money.


75 posted on 10/01/2016 3:38:31 PM PDT by jersey117
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To: Salman

Jolene Blalock did not sign...

76 posted on 10/01/2016 3:38:31 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: Salman

Hollyweird freak subculture dislodge themselves from each other’s backsides long enough to make a Facebook posting, “Star Trek wasn’t about money...we’re beyond greed...Trump must be stopped...”

Then they get mugged by reality, are forced by lawyers to post the following:

“Trek Against Trump is not endorsed, sponsored, or affiliated with CBS Studios Inc., Paramount Pictures Corp, or the Star Trek franchise.”

https://mobile.twitter.com/TrekNotTrump

Sorry losers, but when your own tribe sics the lawyers on you and won’t let you escape its orbit, odds of interstellar transport are looking pretty low. Now run along and see if you can talk your boyfriend into wearing his Elon Musk mask tonight.


77 posted on 10/01/2016 3:42:01 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
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To: jersey117

Leonard Nimoy reported to have voted early for Clinton.

Twice.


78 posted on 10/01/2016 3:42:40 PM PDT by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding")
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To: Salman
Then them to kiss my moon..right on the crater
79 posted on 10/01/2016 3:45:27 PM PDT by tophat9000 (King G(OP)eorge III has no idea why the Americans are in rebellion... teach him why)
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To: Salman

This could be as influential as “Rockers Against Bush” was in defeating W!


80 posted on 10/01/2016 3:46:10 PM PDT by suboptimal
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