Please do not bastardize Spock by comparing him to Obama. Obama is all about emotion and feeling good, and he’s completely illogical. Borg would be better, he just wants to assimilate everything. 😛
“Bill Clinton promised a Cabinet that looked like America,” Henry Jenkins said in a recent conversation. “Obama gave us one that looks like the Enterprise crew. In a matter-of-fact way, he’s embraced diversity at every level. No Klingons yet — but the administration is new.”
Well, technically, Michelle isn’t a member, so I guess he’s right.
If obie was anything, he’s a shape-shifter. Just look at what he says & then does. And I’m pretty sure he’s been hitting the Rahmulan Kool-Aid Romulan Ale a bit too hard.
He ought to stick to the Saurian Brandy. Like Obie, “It’s… green!”
If true, then I’m not going to go see the new movie now, since Spock is apparently portrayed as a mentally-challenged, stuttering, lying, blackmailing, totalitarian thug.
Actually, and I hate to seem so geeky, but, while the writers of star trek tried to portray the ferengi as capitalist, if you paid attention to the episodes where their society is explained, they are in fact forced to comply with many government regulations, and the government can easily take away unprofitable businesses. So the Ferengi can hardly be said to be capitalist.
From the photo, O-bah-muhh looked Romulan, the emotion driven branch of the Vulcan ‘species’. This would explain his desire to appoint a Supreme Court Justice with empathy. Certainly not a Vulcan priority. Of course he married the Klingon, Michelle.
It was against the Ferengi code to give anything away; they would have taken his business license away.
Now cheating and lying to your subjects on the other hand….
I will again admit my geekdom by knowing what you guys are talking about. I have every episode of every Star Trek ever made though I can’t watch Enterprise.
I’m a female, too. I’m married and have a 15 month old son. Does that make me a full-fledged geek or just part geek?
#5 – AR,
“how do they justify such baseless, worshipful praise?”
Sappho of Lesbos, C. 612 BC (or Keith Oberman, any night) “Equal to the gods seems to me that man who sits facing you and hears you nearby sweetly speaking and softly laughing. This sets my heart to fluttering in my breast, for when I look on you a moment, then can I speak no more, but my tongue falls silent, and at once a delicate flame courses beneath my skin, and with my eyes I see nothing, and my ears hum, and a cold sweat bathes me, and a trembling seizes me all over, and I am paler than grass, and I feel that I am near to death.”
It’s a sort of inverted narsissim.
Like a mirror, they project their idealized self-image onto him, then love him because of what they see of themselves in him.
If he had any real personality of his own, it would break the spell.
Please do not bastardize Spock by comparing him to Obama. Obama is all about emotion and feeling good, and he’s completely illogical. Borg would be better, he just wants to assimilate everything. 😛
Don’t give him ideas! He hears you say that he’ll demand higher taxes and oo-mox!
Hell, I thought he was Wesley – annoying, cloy, whiny, sense of entitlement…
Well, technically, Michelle isn’t a member, so I guess he’s right.
Well, the philosophy behind liberalism is Nihilism, which is a rejection of reason, so I’m going with a “no”.
Also, I could not finish that article, how do they justify such baseless, worshipful praise?
If obie was anything, he’s a shape-shifter. Just look at what he says & then does. And I’m pretty sure he’s been hitting the
Rahmulan Kool-AidRomulan Ale a bit too hard.He ought to stick to the Saurian Brandy. Like Obie, “It’s… green!”
Jeeze. I’m such a geek…
He can’t be Vulcan…he depends far too much on emotion as the source of his power. He’s more Romulan, in my opinion.
Sheesh, I’m a dork…
Can’t be Ferengi. Ferengi are capitalists.
If true, then I’m not going to go see the new movie now, since Spock is apparently portrayed as a mentally-challenged, stuttering, lying, blackmailing, totalitarian thug.
Ferengi are capitlists, Frank.
I’m such a geek for knowing that.
Capitalists. Sheesh, I should proofread.
If Barry was Spock he could tax the entire Federation! Muwahahahahah!
Actually, and I hate to seem so geeky, but, while the writers of star trek tried to portray the ferengi as capitalist, if you paid attention to the episodes where their society is explained, they are in fact forced to comply with many government regulations, and the government can easily take away unprofitable businesses. So the Ferengi can hardly be said to be capitalist.
Obama as Spock that’s highly illogical…….
I was gonna call you a racist, but then I saw you wrote s-p-o-C-k not s-p-o-O-k.
From the photo, O-bah-muhh looked Romulan, the emotion driven branch of the Vulcan ‘species’. This would explain his desire to appoint a Supreme Court Justice with empathy. Certainly not a Vulcan priority. Of course he married the Klingon, Michelle.
hes not kirk, he aint even Uhura
Obama is more like the Borg Queen……He wants us to assimilate and live as a collective under his rule.
Well, maybe he IS Spock. He’s certainly using the death grip on Chrysler.
Ba da ding!
AlanABQ @ 5:
He ought to stick to the Saurian Brandy. Like Obie, “It’s… green!”
actually, it’s Aldebaran whiskey:
http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Aldebaran_whiskey
Hah! NOW who’s the geek? 😉
[damn, I need a woman]
Very nice, Jimmy. Funniest end of civilization evah!
Ha ha ha.
Ah, it doesn’t help.
Maybe Obama’s a Regulan bloodworm. They’re soft, spineless, and can have the effect of short-term memory loss.
He could be a Regellian blood worm, since they are leech-like, swelling as they feed from their prey.
Maybe Obama’s the Regulan bloodworm, and his policies are Regellian blood worms.
Actually, Obama is a dead twin for Apophis on Stargate SG1. And, they have the same political policies.
Basil, do think Obama’s a Regulan bloodworm? I think it’s possible.
You know, Son of Bob, I thought about saying the same thing, but I thought I had posted enough Stargate references. 🙂
With Teleprompter- Spock
Without Teleprompter- Reginald Barclay
(Deepest apologies to Dwight Schultz)
Obama might be Spocks toe jam.
Marko,
There’s no such thing as too many Stargate references.
It was against the Ferengi code to give anything away; they would have taken his business license away.
Now cheating and lying to your subjects on the other hand….
What always got me is that the Ferengi were terrible capitalists. All they did was price gouge; there was never any competition.
That is until Ishka and Zek hooked up. She ruined Ferenginar.
I will again admit my geekdom by knowing what you guys are talking about. I have every episode of every Star Trek ever made though I can’t watch Enterprise.
I’m a female, too. I’m married and have a 15 month old son. Does that make me a full-fledged geek or just part geek?
#5 – AR,
“how do they justify such baseless, worshipful praise?”
Sappho of Lesbos, C. 612 BC (or Keith Oberman, any night)
“Equal to the gods seems to me that man who sits facing you and hears you nearby sweetly speaking and softly laughing. This sets my heart to fluttering in my breast, for when I look on you a moment, then can I speak no more, but my tongue falls silent, and at once a delicate flame courses beneath my skin, and with my eyes I see nothing, and my ears hum, and a cold sweat bathes me, and a trembling seizes me all over, and I am paler than grass, and I feel that I am near to death.”
It’s a sort of inverted narsissim.
Like a mirror, they project their idealized self-image onto him, then love him because of what they see of themselves in him.
If he had any real personality of his own, it would break the spell.