Posted on 05/07/2009 8:47:04 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
"Star Trek" is a cultural comet. From its tiny, ancient core -- a mere 79 episodes, airing before we set foot on the moon -- a seemingly infinite tail has grown, its glow still bright after 43 years. The original series (featuring James T. Kirk, Mr. Spock and Dr. "Bones" McCoy) ran for just three seasons, from 1966 to 1968. All of the techno-bling we associate with the show -- communicators, transporters, warp drive, phasers and Tribbles -- was introduced during that first run. It’s staggering to reflect that the premier episode aired during NASA’s two-man Gemini program -- five years before the first pocket calculator.
On Friday, May 8, the newest offering in the "Star Trek" canon will open in theaters around the world. The film will give us the back story of the original series, and show how its three principles got themselves onto what might be (along with Noah’s Ark and the Titanic) the most famous vehicle in history: the starship Enterprise. Only one of the three main actors of that era will appear in J.J. Abrams' "Star Trek." It won’t be William Shatner (Kirk), or DeForest Kelley (McCoy), who died in 1999. Though Mr. Spock’s role as a half-human, half-Vulcan Starfleet cadet is played by Zachary Quinto, Leonard Nimoy makes a cameo appearance as the future Spock, coming to advise his younger avatar.
Spock has been on many minds lately, and not entirely because of the new film. Big thinkers in both print media and the blogosphere -- from New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd to MIT media moguls -- have referenced the Enterprise's science officer in recent months, drawing parallels between the dependably logical half-Vulcan and another mixed-race icon: Barack Obama.
(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...
Obama’s too stupid to be Spock. A Paklid, maybe, but not Spock.
Oh, geez.
Oooh goody, Obama’s a redshirt, time to beam him down to a planet for security detail.
It would be more like King Barry would be “Q”.
Spock: “Live long, and Prosper!”
BHO: “Live long & p**s-poor...”
Salon et al have OFS.....Obama Fellatio Syndrome
Obummer is hardly Spock-like because he is totally illogical. Obummer seems more like the Tribbles to me who are nice to look at, make people feel good but who are empty and ultimately produce nothing.
Not mentioned in the article is the fact that the original Star Trek series presented a very Republican-style, Reaganesque (optimistic) vision of the future, in which humans hadn’t completely destroyed themselves in a nuclear holocaust, and technology was used to solve problems.
the brains of a tribble
and
the warmth of a Klingon
We may live long under the president-for-life, and it may just seem like a long four years, but there is no chance in the galaxy that any honest person will prosper as a result of Obama's actions.
He looks more like Tuvok.
Mirror Spock?
you know what always happens to the black guy wearing a red shirt on any episode of Star Trek.....
How good is Obama at 3-D chess?
Somehow I think Mr. Spock would have studied the history of Marxism, observed it’s failures, and rejected it based on logic. Unless he was a power hungry thug, he would have.
The stench of teen musk is overpowering.
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