I just saw this posted on Reddit and got a kick out of it: This was posted by user BobNewheartisGod
These two events are actually connected in a "for the want of a nail" kind of way...
In 1990, Jeri Lynn Zimmerman meets Jack Ryan while dealing a charity blackjack tournament. They date and eventually get married on June 15, 1991. Zimmerman, now known as Jeri Ryan, begins to get her first acting parts, while her husband, a successful banker with Goldman Sachs, starts making early forays into politics. They commute between Los Angeles and Chicago to allow both to focus on their respective careers.
Eventually, the strain of the commute, and the pressure of their careers get to them, and they have a somewhat nasty divorce (nasty enough to have the records sealed) in 1999, two years into Jeri's tenure as 7 of 9 on Star Trek: Voyager. Some of this strain was from Jeri going from playing single shot parts to playing a regular character on a popular program. They simply weren't able to put the time into the relationship.
In 2004, Jack sought the US Senate seat being vacated by Peter Fitzgerald (R - IL). The Chicago Tribune and an ABC affiliate managed to get a judge to unseal the divorce proceedings of Jack and Jeri, revealing that Jack had often demanded Jeri accompany him to sex clubs and demanded she perform various sexual acts. Needless to say, this torpedoed his campaign, and his challenger, Democrat Barack Obama, who was struggling with "is he ready" type issues, won handily. Obama rapidly catapulted from the Senate to the presidency, and the rest, as they say, is history.
However, going back to the end of the 1996 television season, Star Trek: Voyager's ratings were flagging. In an attempt to "sex up" the show, they decided to bring in a provocative character. That character was of course, 7 of 9, played by Jeri Ryan. But, what if they'd gone a different direction? What if they'd cancelled the show? Would they still have divorced? Would anyone care about Jeri Ryan and the divorce enough to look into it? In short, the Tribune and others who demanded the divorce records weren't as interested in Jack Ryan as they were in Jeri... to connect boring Illinois politics with a national celebrity.
In short, the producers of Star Trek:Voyager are "the nail" that made Barack Obama president of the United States.
EDIT: I screwed up part of the story. Obama did not defeat Jack Ryan. Jack Ryan was forced to drop out of the race, and was replaced by Alan Keyes, due to the scandals. Obama defeated Keyes, not Ryan.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/...st_convince_reddit_that_two_seemingly/d4uknwv
So does this make you like Voyager more or less?
These two events are actually connected in a "for the want of a nail" kind of way...
In 1990, Jeri Lynn Zimmerman meets Jack Ryan while dealing a charity blackjack tournament. They date and eventually get married on June 15, 1991. Zimmerman, now known as Jeri Ryan, begins to get her first acting parts, while her husband, a successful banker with Goldman Sachs, starts making early forays into politics. They commute between Los Angeles and Chicago to allow both to focus on their respective careers.
Eventually, the strain of the commute, and the pressure of their careers get to them, and they have a somewhat nasty divorce (nasty enough to have the records sealed) in 1999, two years into Jeri's tenure as 7 of 9 on Star Trek: Voyager. Some of this strain was from Jeri going from playing single shot parts to playing a regular character on a popular program. They simply weren't able to put the time into the relationship.
In 2004, Jack sought the US Senate seat being vacated by Peter Fitzgerald (R - IL). The Chicago Tribune and an ABC affiliate managed to get a judge to unseal the divorce proceedings of Jack and Jeri, revealing that Jack had often demanded Jeri accompany him to sex clubs and demanded she perform various sexual acts. Needless to say, this torpedoed his campaign, and his challenger, Democrat Barack Obama, who was struggling with "is he ready" type issues, won handily. Obama rapidly catapulted from the Senate to the presidency, and the rest, as they say, is history.
However, going back to the end of the 1996 television season, Star Trek: Voyager's ratings were flagging. In an attempt to "sex up" the show, they decided to bring in a provocative character. That character was of course, 7 of 9, played by Jeri Ryan. But, what if they'd gone a different direction? What if they'd cancelled the show? Would they still have divorced? Would anyone care about Jeri Ryan and the divorce enough to look into it? In short, the Tribune and others who demanded the divorce records weren't as interested in Jack Ryan as they were in Jeri... to connect boring Illinois politics with a national celebrity.
In short, the producers of Star Trek:Voyager are "the nail" that made Barack Obama president of the United States.
EDIT: I screwed up part of the story. Obama did not defeat Jack Ryan. Jack Ryan was forced to drop out of the race, and was replaced by Alan Keyes, due to the scandals. Obama defeated Keyes, not Ryan.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/...st_convince_reddit_that_two_seemingly/d4uknwv
So does this make you like Voyager more or less?
