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An editorial comment by Maynard

Drudge linked to this Breitbart article.

President Barack Obama said in a report Sunday that he saw the new “Star Trek” film recently — and not just because it was last week’s top-grossing movie.

“Everybody was saying I was Spock,” said the US leader, known to have a wonkish command of the minutiae of policy — not unlike the dispassionate movie Vulcan to whom he has been compared.

Newsweek gushed however that Obama’s version of the character would be “Spock with global sex appeal.”

What deranged moron could possibly make this absurd connection? As an alum of Starfleet Academy myself, I can only respond with this earthy expression that was in common use at my alma mater: WTF?

I could rant for pages, but I’ll spare myself and my readers (if any) and keep it short. The very first thing they teach you when you sign up for Starfleet is the Prime Directive.

As the right of each sentient species to live in accordance with its normal cultural evolution is considered sacred, no Starfleet personnel may interfere with the normal and healthy development of alien life and culture. Such interference includes introducing superior knowledge, strength, or technology to a world whose society is incapable of handling such advantages wisely. Starfleet personnel may not violate this Prime Directive, even to save their lives and/or their ship, unless they are acting to right an earlier violation or an accidental contamination of said culture. This directive takes precedence over any and all other considerations, and carries with it the highest moral obligation.

In a word: Leave people alone.

The Prime Directive is consistent with a philosophy of minimal government. The angry control freak that needs to poke his enlightened nose into everyone’s business would have been a Starfleet washout faster than Rev. Wright can say “God damn America”.

We all understand that Obama’s mental and ethical supremacy is inarguable. But so what? The whole idea of the Federation is that we can co-exist by letting everyone have their patch of turf and get on with their lives. That’s why peace more-or-less prevails within our sphere of influence: Because we are truly tolerant. Even when we think the other guy is a stupid jerk (which, by the way, he usually is), we let him be. We only step in when that guy is taking pot shots at innocents or otherwise being so aggressively obnoxious that we’d be suicidal to ignore him. This micromanaging central-command-above-all mentality is more suited to Dr. Evil, or maybe The Master Cylinder.

Spock is not Obama. Spock would kick Obama’s ass. So says Maynard.

For further reading, investigate the philosophy of the Führerprinzip, which came out of primitive, savage cultures on Earth.