The West Wing on Star Trek

A take on Star Trek from NBC's the West Wing.

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[TheFPSChannel]

You're all forgetting that in the SAME episode Sam takes down a baseball pennant from his wall as he packs to leave(!). Substitute anything Josh said about the obsessiveness of Star Trek fans and how they spend their time and replace it with hypotheticals about team sports and the whole monologue is filled with hypocrisy. (That said I'm a huge WW fan..but this speech pissed me off)

[psychoticchaos]

Well that's a shame, you cut off the rest of the speech. It ended on a higher note that went like this:

"...you can't bring your hobbies into work, okay. . . . Except on Star Trek holidays."

"There are no Star Trek holidays"

"Stick around long enough and we'll make one"

[smielrya2962]

@Minderrt There's a difference between having something in your office, where people expect to see items of a personal nature, and having something visible and on your person at all times, walking around for anyone to see. It's absolutely inappropriate for Sam to wear a baseball cap, or for Toby to have a Yankees tie. However, if Toby has a Yankees mug in his office, no one would care.

Or maybe they just didn't really put that much thought into it, and we're all overanalyzing. That's my pick ^^

[MyNamesNotLuke]

@spudnutsncoffee Fiction=/=Reality

And then you go on about some idiotic analogy based off of a false point with no substance whatsoever. I love how people always say things, but in no way back it up at all. They don't even try throwing in some fallacious argument in an attempt to support their beliefs. You're just throwing analogies and subjective crap around like it was your own feces and you were a deranged animal in a cage.

Oh, wait...

[ukanian]

@TheFPSChannel except for the original point about inspiring confidence.

[spudnutsncoffee]

@capierno Amen. People like this lady who live in a fantasy world have always amused me. The White House is no place for Trekker Conventions. There is no more honor in Star Trek than there are vitamins and minerals in plastic fruit. It represents something good, but in the end it is fiction and fantasy, and will not save the world. :) Trouble is, Obama and his minions are plastic fruit. And we need people in the White House that will actually make this country and the world a better place.

[mepcolo]

I can't believe this needs to be said, but baseball, football, Jimmi Hendrix, Save the Whales? All real. Star Trek? TV show about fictional space travel. Fictional, you know, not real. Baseball, Jimmi Hendrix...real. Star Trek...not real. Get a grip! West Wing is a TV show. Not real. Becoming upset over policy in a fictional White House? Grow up.

[lordrosemount]

I could of course be mistaken, but I don't recall there ever being more than one galaxy featured in the entire Star Trek cannon.

[Minderrt]

Its all about fair and balanced application of policy. If there is a policy where no Fan affilitation of any kind is allowed in the whitehouse (eg. No sports fan, no music fan, no TV/movie fan) then this is perfectly acceptable. I personally do not understand why there would be that rule, but there are lots of things I dont understand.

If however others are allowed to wear Baseball team pins, or Jimmi Hendrix pins then this is totally out of line, and totally out of character for the show

[stringerboi]

take the damn pin off because thats our policy. Leave your star trek cheerleading at the door of your home. BTW i am a huge star trek fan but wearing a pin is kinda ridiculous

[GusF]

Personally, I don't think that having a fetish. It's just being a big and knowledgeable fan. Does someone who can name who played in every World Series have a fetish or are they just an enthusiastic fan? It annoys me that a series as intelligently written as "The West Wing" is so quick to mock and derogate people for having a pastime. While wearing a "Star Trek" communicator into the White House might be a bit much, his personal comments are really uncalled for. I'm disappointed frankly.