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"There're Klingons on the starboard bow, starboard bow...

01/15/07 | by Adam | Categories: Silly, YouTube

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pe4WA58rMu0&eurl=

I could be wrong, but I believe this is probably the first time "Star Trek" (as opposed to "Star Wars") has been referenced on the floor of the American House of Representatives.

It's a sort of milestone I suppose.

(Update 2007/01/25: My mistake; it wasn't the Senate; now corrected.)

 

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Comment from: Nimble [Member]  

They showed this clip on The Daily Show this eve. I think it took so long to show because, if my ears don’t deceive me (and they might), they had phone-ins from Leonard Nimoy and George Takei.

In the midst of all this, though, I think yon Senator should have realized that the war was being run by Romulans, dammit. Related to Vulcans, hot-blooded, fancy technology, ignores the neutral zone…

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