Sen. Ted Cruz: Capt. Kirk is Republican

When Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz wades into pop culture, it typically comes across as a discomfiting simulacrum of what a normal hu-man does with his leisure units.

Perhaps part of the reason he likes Kirk so much has to do with his assessment that “Kirk is quite likely a Republican, and Picard is quite likely a Democrat”. In a current interview, nevertheless, The New York Times managed to faucet into Cruz’s internal nerd and get him to element an apparently trustworthy tackle Star Trek.

He then proceeded to “do a little psychoanalysis”, saying that “[i]f you look at ‘Star Trek: “The Next Generation, ‘ it basically split James T. Kirk into two people. “The original “Star Trek” pressed for racial equality, which was one of its best characteristics, but it did so without sermonizing”. Do you prefer Captain Kirk or Captain Picard? On the other hand, at the time at least, Roddenberry was John F. Kennedy liberal, which is a different kind of political animal than Barack Obama. When asked “Do you have a suspicion about whether Kirk would be a Democrat or a Republican?“.

William Shatner-who played Captain Kirk-was not amused. In a tweet, Shatner claims that “Star Trek” was not political and to put such labels on interstellar characters is “silly”.

Unlike Obama, Cruz seems to have actually watched “Star Trek“.

When Cox asked Cruz if he was attracted to anti-heroes, citing his Obamacare filibuster in which he impersonated Darth Vader, Cruz responded, “I was always a Han Solo guy”.

Space: the final frontier of politics.