Derek or Meredith? Taking Sides With Characters
Characters and Culture: the Jewish family in Ang Lee's 'Eat Drink Man Woman'“A Vulcan in the White House”
“Spock’s cool, analytical nature feels more fascinating and topical than ever now that we’ve put a sort of Vulcan in the White House.” Thus writes Steve Daly in his discussion of the continuing popularity of Star Trek in Newsweek, and this observation gave me pause.
Barack Obama as ‘a sort of Vulcan’, cool, collected, intellectually parsing problems? Yeah, actually, I can buy that.
But now I can’t get the picture of Spock ears on the President out of my mind…
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Now I’m thinking of Joe Biden as Kirk, and Rahm Emanuel as the late season replacement for McCoy.
LOL.
And of course, Michelle O must be Uhura.
I think Hillary is Cpt. Janeway, though that’s disjoint in time.
Who’s Scotty, I wonder?