Reply #2: Kirk! Kirk! Kirk!

[Deja Q]

I did find an amusing - but accurate - article, however:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/startrekgenerationspgkempley_a0a49c.htm

The next generation so rarely finds anything funny, you'd think they were a bunch of Vulcans. Now and then they tell a joke, just to see if the android named Data (Brent Spiner) gets it. But mostly they roam about the cosmos taking each other's emotional temperatures. They even have a ship shrink (Marina Sirtis). A half-human, half-Betazoid with empathic powers, she advises Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart) on the crew's mental health -- sometimes on the bridge in the middle of a red alert.

Captain Kirk would never have an empath on board unless he planned to sleep with her. Sure he's a pig -- always was, now that we reflect on the past 30 years -- but in cinematic terms, even piggishness beats staring pensively into a fish tank, as Picard is wont to do. Behaviorally, the new crew members take their cue from the cerebral Picard, who becomes even more morose than usual...


The Dem party hasn't any Picards or Kirks in it. It's got a bunch of Wimpys, Olive Oils, Daffy Ducks, and Yogi Bears in it. :-(