Alex Salmond, USS Agley

[Australis]

ALEX Salmond has been given an intergalactic boost in his bid to "Klingon" to power.

The First Minister will go where no party leader has gone before after the world's largest Star Trek fan organisation voted to award him its highest honour.

The SNP leader is to be made a Starfleet Officer and awarded "Membership of Distinction" to reward his dedication to promoting the long-running sci-fi series and its values.

Salmond has spoken publicly of his "obsessive" life-long love of Star Trek, which, as a youngster, even led him to attach a clothes peg to one eyebrow in a bid to perfect the inscrutable expressions of Mr Spock.

Well. Uhhh. Well.

What do our Scottish posters think of this?

http://www.scotsman.com/news/It39s-quite-logical-Starfleet-beam.6500916.jp

 

[gturner]

He's obviously a big fan, but he really hasn't gone that far with it. Barrack Obama married a Klingon.

 

[Deckerd]

Oleaginous Salmond. We have an election next year and I'm agog to find out if the oily smug nyaff gets in again.

 

[Lonemagpie]

Oleaginous Salmond. We have an election next year and I'm agog to find out if the oily smug nyaff gets in again.

Of course he will.

It's cool that he's a celebrity Trekkie, I don't much give a monkeys about his politics one way or the other (well, actually I think independence doesn't go far enough- we should take over England) - and he's a witty enough guy.

But he has a face that just makes me want to punch it. I don't even know why or what it is, but he just *does*. It seems to be a rare condition but he's not unique- sometimes people are just like that, and spark some deep-down instinctive "belt it one" reaction.

 

[Haggis and tatties]

I treat all MPs with the same contempt, regardless of their nationality.

 

[Deckerd]

I didn't mention his politics. Scottish politics aren't really all that interesting. However Lonemagpie nailed the effect he has on people.