You know you're a Trek fan when . . .

[WarpGirl]

Oh so you're talking about Admiral Kirk, not Captain Kirk. OK Admiral Kirk I can see.

[Kevin Thomas Riley]

Well, Kirk went back to Captain after TVH...

Still, even Captain Kirk (before becoming an Admiral) would've been a good Prez. A bit young perhaps, but he was a good leader back then too.

[Asso]

...And whatever Kirk was, it wasn't a politician or a bureaucrat.

I'm not sure.
And then, you know... a fistfight is not always the better road.

[Distracted]

It's called delegation.

"Right fist... I delegate the nose to you. Left fist... you get the guy's gut."

[WarpGirl]

Oh Dis THAT'S PERFECT! And KTR I ignore the fact he got demoted, to me he was the Admiral growing up and always will be. God I feel all young and stuff, it's been a while.

[Aquarius]

I'm a liberal and frankly I often find DOWD annoying. Not in the way these guys do, obviously, but more because of her cute, mincing little word games. Sometimes they work well, but a lot of the time they're just so precious... And frankly they often they strike me as shortcut for doing any of the real work that you'd hope would go into that column.

So anyway I tried getting through this video, I really did. It's quite clever. I got half of the way. Someday when I don't have homework to grade maybe I'll go back and try to get through it all. But it's hard work when all thejokes fall flat because of your political point of view.

But what really caused me to click out was that this guy thinks KIRK would be a good President.



Kirk plus Spock plus McCoy, maybe. Yeah, I buy that analysis. Just Kirk? God help us.

Well when you think about it, every president has a cabinet of advisers whom he (we hope) listens to...and Spock and McCoy were Kirk's in terms of their role in Kirk's decision-making processes, so I think the analogy is valid.

[TPoptarts]

You know you're a Trek fan when you're writing a Justice League fic and in the part that Hawkgirl explains Green Lantern why she hates his beard one of her reasons is that it makes him look like his evil twin from a parallel universe.

[WarpGirl]

Oh that's good!

[Alelou]

But Archer became president of the Federation so it wouldn't be out of the realm of possiblity.

Really? Is this canon?

[Linda]

I don't know if it was specifically stated in canon that Archer became president of the Federation, but I had the impression it was implied. Didn't Daniels show Archer some vision of the future where he was important in the creation of the Federation in order to get him to do something? Anybody remember the episode?

[Alelou]

Yeah, the last one. (Shudder.) Also hinted at in one of the Xindi episodes (Zero Hour?). But I don't remember Archer being President, just a driving force who gave an important speech and presumably did some arm twisting/diplomacy. I sure wouldn't expect a President of an organization like that to be someone who's uniformed as if he's serving in a military capacity for one of the member planets.

But maybe I've missed something...thus the question.

[Kevin Thomas Riley]

But Archer became president of the Federation so it wouldn't be out of the realm of possiblity.

Really? Is this canon?

It was shown on screen in the database on the Defiant in In a Mirror Darkly, Part 2. The Defiant came from "our" future and had the historical facts about what happened to the real counterparts.

[WarpGirl]

That and Daniels said so.

[Aquarius]

Yikes. How messed up would THAT be???

[WarpGirl]

Dunno But it's true.