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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-03-05 09:15 PM
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Your pick of Star Trek characters for POTUS and cabinet?
I tried this in the Lounge. They wouldn't play. *pout*
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keeplaughing Donating Member (12 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-03-05 09:18 PM
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1. I hope they play here.
Only on DU do I ever find the brilliantly funny threads that could result from this sort of header. C'mon guys!
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-03-05 09:24 PM
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7. Yes, I think DU is good at this sort of thing. Wit is our strong suit.
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DebJ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-03-05 09:21 PM
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2. Spock for Secretary of State.
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-03-05 09:22 PM
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4. "Live Long and Prosper" makes for a great foreign policy.
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TheDebbieDee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-03-05 09:41 PM
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29. "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few."........
This makes an even better foreign policy, I think.

Anyway, Spock for President.

Mr. Sulu for Secretary of Defense: You better not call him "Tiny"!

Lt. Uhura for Secretary of State: She knows how to open those hailing frequencies.

Mr. Chekov would be the Secretary of the newly formed Department of Propaganda: He could outlie Bagdahd Bob and Faux News!

Quark for Secretary of the Treasury: If anybody could straighten out the financial mess that *co and the repukes have made, it would be Quark!

I need to think some more on the rest of the Cabinet posts.........
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-05 09:43 PM
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64. Treasury should be Moogie, Quark's mom
She handled the Grand Nagus' latinum, so she's emminently qualified. Also, she'd much more honest than Quark, not that that's a high standard.
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catnhatnh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-03-05 09:22 PM
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3. OK...
Edited on Mon Oct-03-05 09:23 PM by catnhatnh
...Checkov, young, idealistic, and charismatic in his own right..though given to small delusions of grandeur, he is well grounded in the prime directive....
On Edit: I doubt he is Republican and I didn't mean "speak no evil"....
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-03-05 09:22 PM
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5. For Prez?
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MissWaverly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-03-05 09:23 PM
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6. I think the Joker, Catwoman, the penguin and Mr. Freeze are
more appropriate, but I will give it a try

for prez, it would have to be: Q
for vice-president it would have to be Quark
for WH press secretary Commander Data
for Secretary of Defense Gul Dukat
for Secretary of State Seven of Nine
for Ambassador to the UN: Mr. Spock
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-03-05 09:25 PM
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8. Our current prez certainly has the hubris of a Q.
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MissWaverly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-03-05 09:28 PM
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18. My thoughts exactly
and just when you think you understand his logic, he's off to
another dimension.
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DebJ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-03-05 09:25 PM
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10. ooh I don't know what I like more, Commander Data for press
secretary or taking the Batman criminals and giving our current cabinet their names...
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MissWaverly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-03-05 09:27 PM
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14. thanks, I'm glad you picked up on that
Of course, you know who would play the Riddler
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NewJeffCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-03-05 09:25 PM
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9. Capt. Picard for President, Kirk for VP
Leonard "Bones" McCoy for Surgeon General
Deanna Troi for Sec. of State
Worf for Sec. of Defense
Spock for Nat'l Security Advisor
Quark for Sec. of Commerce (ok, he'd never get confirmed)
Riker for Attorney General

I'll have to think about places for 7 of 9, T'Pol, Sisko, etc.


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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-03-05 09:26 PM
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11. Now I see Data for AG and Kirk for FEMA.. that 911 thing, y k'now. *g*
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NewJeffCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-03-05 09:27 PM
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16. I just remember Riker
from the episode where he went against Data on trial to show that Data was not human/had a soul.
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NewJeffCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-03-05 09:28 PM
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17. Scotty for FEMA
He's a miracle worker, after all.
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HawkerHurricane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-03-05 09:26 PM
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12. Kirk for SecDef
Spock for State
McCoy for HHS
Uhura for Education
Sulu for Treasury
Scott for Transportation
Chekov for Homeland Security
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Mr_Spock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-03-05 09:26 PM
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13. I dunno - my emotional buddy McCoy for HHS Secretary?
Is that a cabinet position? :shrug:
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Kelvin Mace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-03-05 09:27 PM
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15. OK, I'll play
Edited on Mon Oct-03-05 09:32 PM by Kelvin Mace
Sarek - President
Picard - VP
Sec of Def - Kirk
Sec of HHS - McCoy
DHS - Worf
Sec of Energy - Scotty
Sec Education - Spock
Chief of Staff - Odo
Sec of State - Sisko
Press Secretary - Harry Mudd
Data - Sec of Treasury
7 of 9 - AG

Hows that for a start?
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MissWaverly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-03-05 09:33 PM
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21. I forgot about Harry Mudd
He should probably take Greenspan's place, but I think that
Press Secretary would be good too. Commander Sisko, good pick
for Secretary of State!
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Democrats_win Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-03-05 09:37 PM
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27. Tribbles as bush voters.
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MissWaverly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-03-05 09:41 PM
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30. perfect, remember you can't feed them
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ChairmanAgnostic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-05 09:17 PM
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62. precisely.
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Ladyhawk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-03-05 10:15 PM
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41. Naw, redshirts as bush voters.
Tell them to just go into the disintegration...er, voting booth.
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Kelvin Mace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-03-05 09:47 PM
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33. Polite,
intelligent, formidable and not to be trifled with.
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MissWaverly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-05 08:45 PM
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55. Commander Sisko, had integrity
Edited on Wed Oct-05-05 08:45 PM by MissWaverly
I think that's what we are lacking into today's society, people
with a conscience, I remember once they will talking about how
overwhelming the Cardassians were and he said "I will fear no evil."

Very powerful, he had depth
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amerikat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-03-05 09:30 PM
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19. The head on a box in a wheelchair for prez
Captain Pike? The cabinet should be comprised entirely of Tribbles. At least when they get indicted there will always be another to take it's place.
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Charlie Brown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-03-05 09:32 PM
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20. Senator Warf as majority leader n/t
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xultar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-03-05 09:34 PM
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22. Capt Picard - President & Will Ricker Sec of Def & Deanna Troy SoS
Worf - DHS
Scotty - Nasa Administrator
O'Hura - Press Secretary
Bones - General Surgeon
Spock - Chief of Staff
Kirk - FEMA
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johnaries Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-03-05 09:34 PM
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23. Wait a minute, are we limited to the Original Series or the entire
Star Trek Universe? Or just the Original and STNG?

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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-03-05 10:12 PM
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38. Whole Universe... shows, movies, books.. the whole shebang. :^D
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petronius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-03-05 09:35 PM
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24. Gowron as Sec. of State
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CatWoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-03-05 09:36 PM
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25. SPOCK FOR PRESIDENT!!!!!
:D
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brentspeak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-03-05 11:25 PM
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51. "I do not wish to be the President of the United States"
"...but if it should befall me, my operatives will avenge my death. And some of them...are Vulcans."

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Marr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-05 08:51 PM
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58. Oops- double post. :)
Edited on Wed Oct-05-05 08:54 PM by Marr
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Marr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-05 08:55 PM
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59. SPOCK IS A FLIP-FLOPPER.
Flip.


Flop.
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HawkerHurricane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-03-05 09:37 PM
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26. I'd like to point out...
that under the current constitution, many of the Star Trek personnel are ineligible for President/VP.

Kirk: ELigible, born in Iowa.
Spock: Ineligible, born on Vulcan. May not even be a U.S. citizen.
McCoy: Eligible, born in Georgia.
Sulu: Eligible, born in California (San Fransisco).
Uhura: Ineligible, born in Kenya (United States of Africa)
Scott: Ineligible, born in Scotland
Chekov: Ineligible, born in Russia (Moscow).

Picard: Ineligible, born in France.
Riker: Eligible, born in Alaska.
Worf: Inelegible, not born on Earth.
Data: Ineligible, not born naturally.
Troi: Ineligible, born on Betazed.
Dr. Crusher: I don't know.
Wesley Crusher: Ineligible, underage.
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-03-05 10:13 PM
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39. Good point. Have to keep this reality based.
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The Jacobin Donating Member (820 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-03-05 09:40 PM
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28. Sisko for President


The best commander in the ST Universe. I'd follow him anywere.
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OrlandoGator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-03-05 10:17 PM
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42. I was going to nominate him for Secretary of Defense.
n/t
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reprehensor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-03-05 09:43 PM
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31. POTUS: Kirk, (of course)...
Veep: Harry Mudd
Sec. of State: Yeoman Rand
Sec. of Defense: Khan
Attorney General: Spock
Press Secretary: McCoy
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CatWoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-03-05 09:48 PM
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34. nah -- it will be impeachment all over again
Kirk has a bigger dick control problem than the Clenis :D
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reprehensor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-04-05 10:54 AM
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53. But... he's... not... married.
You... people... don't understand...
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-04-05 03:08 PM
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54. *L.....O....L*
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Marr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-05 08:48 PM
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57. Kirk would get in WAY too much trouble, and I wouldn't trust him with
nukes.
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Wrinkle_In_Time Donating Member (664 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-03-05 09:44 PM
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32. You didn't say which Star Trek characters...
Edited on Mon Oct-03-05 09:45 PM by Wrinkle_In_Time
President: Abraham Lincoln (he was in an episode)

VP: Either Data or Al Gore.

Sec Treasury: any Ferengi (who would notice the difference)

Sec Def: Q

Sec HHS: Khan (he looks after his own)

Sec DHS: Daystrom's M-5 computer.

Sec Transportation: Scotty (Duh!)

Sec Energy: Zephram Cochran

Sec Education: "The Teacher" from the episode "Spock's Brain"

Chief of Staff: Spock's Brain

Sec State: Vger (well, at least it travelled)

Press Secretary: the crystalline entity that described humans as "ugly bags of mostly water" (it's a step up from Scotty)

Edit: spelling
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woodsprite Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-03-05 09:49 PM
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35. I just put my son to bed and read "Yertle the Turtle",
I was thinking when I was reading the Yertle is *. Mack is our democracy.
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DefenseLawyer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-03-05 10:07 PM
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36. Don't nominate that one poor bastard you never saw before
that goes down to the planet with Captain Kirk, he's a dead man!
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-03-05 10:15 PM
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40. The obligatory red shirt guy?
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DefenseLawyer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-03-05 10:27 PM
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45. That's him!
The William Henry Harrison of the enterprise
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intheflow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-03-05 10:09 PM
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37. The All-Woman Leadership
Captain Janeway - President
Dr. Beverly Crusher - VP

Deanne Troi - Labor Secretary
Uhuru - Secretary of State
Lwaxana Troi - Secretary of Education
Seven of Nine - Secretary of the Treasury
Tasha Yar - Secretary of Defense
B'Elanna Torres - Secretary of the Interior
Dr. Christine Chapel - Surgeon General (You don't think she stayed a nurse her whole life, do you?)

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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-03-05 10:25 PM
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44. Don't forget Dr. Kate Pulaski and Keiko O'Brien
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intheflow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-03-05 10:34 PM
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47. You're right.
Keiko O'Brien - Secretary of Agriculture
Pulaski should be Surgeon General. Chapel can be Director of Health and Human Services.
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Tactical Progressive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-03-05 10:20 PM
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43. Dick Cheney in a red shirt (and pants, just to be sure) on a landing party
Edited on Mon Oct-03-05 10:24 PM by Tactical Progressive
I know that's the opposite of what you asked, but I figure this is kind of an open-ended topic.

How about this: Trelaine for President. Oh wait, we already have that.
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donheld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-03-05 10:33 PM
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46. Leonard H. 'Bones' McCoy, M.D. Secretary of Health and Human Services
Dr. Beverly Crusher - Surgeon General
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renegade000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-03-05 10:44 PM
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48. worf for press secretary
Reporter: "The president's opponents have offered much criticism of the actions of the administration as of late, how does the president and his staff plan to deal with this?"



Worf: "Their criticism is irrelevent because the president's critics are worthless cowards with no honor. They shall be felled by the batleths of our party's brave warriors."



Worf: "Next question!"
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Marr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-05 09:00 PM
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60. LMFAO- that would make a hilarious SNL skit.
Edited on Wed Oct-05-05 09:01 PM by Marr
Reporter: "Some people are saying that the president is playing wag-the-dog with-"

Worf: TARG.

Reporter: What?

Worf: TARG, you sniveling coward! Your puny earth "dogs" present no challenge to this president and such a match is an INSULT TO HIS HONOR. He will wag the TARG or nothing, fool!

Reporter: I...

Worf: NEXT QUESTION!
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kansasblue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-03-05 11:10 PM
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49. Seven of Nine for Pres
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adarling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-03-05 11:17 PM
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50. Captain Janeway for Supreme Court
Kirk for President
Picard for Vice
Sisko for Secretary of State
Worf Secretary of Defense
Riker Secretary of state

I am a big dork, but i love it ;)
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-04-05 10:24 AM
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52. Hey I'm
one too, then. *g*
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Marr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-05 08:46 PM
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56. Sisko for President, Bones for VP.
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Liberal_Dog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-05 09:14 PM
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61. I Nominate Garak To Head The CIA
As a former Cardassian spymaster, he would be well qualified.
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mattclearing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-05 09:39 PM
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63. My Star Trek Administration:
President: ....................Will Riker (Totally electable)
Vice President: ...............Data (Completely loyal and unambitious)
SecDef: .......................Kirk (Duh)
Energy:........................Scotty (giving it all he's got)
Dept. of Transportation: ......O'Brien
State: ........................Deanna Troi (Hello, a empath)
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs: .Sisko
Surgeon Gen: ..................Bones
HHS: ..........................Crusher
Homeland Security: ............Worf
Attorney General:..............Spock
Labor:.........................LaForge
Education:.....................Picard
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