Which US President Would You Like to See in "The Savage Curtain"?
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Kirk’s real hero? John Hanson, the first president….
…of the Continental Congress under the Articles of Confederation.
Sticking with Presidents up to the time it was made: Lincoln would still be my first choice regardless but, second to him, Theodore Roosevelt.
Yeah, FDR being one of the historical figures would have looked really weird and wouldn't have worked.
Laugh-In crossover: Jack Riley as LBJ. (Though Nixon was in office by the time the episode aired.)
It would have been a little too prophetic to have Nixon appear as one of the bad guys.
It would have been a little too prophetic to have Nixon appear as one of the bad guys.
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LBJ wasn't too popular by this point anyway. And Kennedy is too much like Kirk. So I think it would've been better to go further back, like they did.
I just like Teddy better. Plus it helps that Theodore Roosevelt was a Rough Rider and wasn't wheelchair bound, unlike FDR.
Washington would be THE most obvious choice, if not Lincoln, but I wanted to avoid the Super Obvious one.
Also, showing FDR might have meant deliberately overlooking his polio and paralysis due to the Franklin Roosevelt in that episode being drawn from the mind of Kirk and audiences of 1968 and 1969 not really being comfortable with seeing their historical figures and revered leaders as disabled and not as vital as portrayed. I could definitely see the producers in that series taking the shortcut and playing it safe, giving the illusory FDR normally-functioning legs and walking capabilities.
So there was a mix-up and Trump was elected instead?
Undead Ronald Regan, the Greatest President Of Them All. So great was he that he came back from the dead of his on accord and battled Trump, Pelosi, both houses of congress AND the IRS to their ultimate destruction. At the same time.
Then he logged in, deleted Facebook for all time, perma-crashed Twitter and had a cup of coffee with the White House Janitor before returning to the sweet unending embrace of Death for another thousand years.
...unknown to the aliens who created this nonsense, Kirk was reading old internet archive posts from the 2020s while drinking the night before. None of this was remotely true or even slightly factually correct in the slightest.
Then he logged in, deleted Facebook for all time, perma-crashed Twitter and had a cup of coffee with the White House Janitor before returning to the sweet unending embrace of Death for another thousand years.
...unknown to the aliens who created this nonsense, Kirk was reading old internet archive posts from the 2020s while drinking the night before. None of this was remotely true or even slightly factually correct in the slightest.
You jest, but going with a "future" black US President would have been quite the statement in 1969. They wouldn't have to say what year he was from. Looses the shock value of Lincoln in Space, since the audience doesn't know who he is. In fact, the Stovepipe hat is probably why they went with Lincoln, you don't have to wait for the characters to tell the audience who it is.
No! I demand a hover chair with missiles!
James Kiberius Polk
Or LBJ, so he and Kirk can swap important leadership stories about how their pants pinch them from their nuts to their bungholes.
Or LBJ, so he and Kirk can swap important leadership stories about how their pants pinch them from their nuts to their bungholes.
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But LBJ would have the savvy not to attempt the JOURNEY TO BABLEL ''kick, turn your back and see what happens'' maneuver. But there are real NAKED GUN-style possibilities in teaming up half of the USA's major world opponents to fight Spocko and Kirky. Start with Osama and early '70s Jane Fonda in the place of Genghis and Zhora.
And it'd likely be too Pike-ish as well.
And it'd likely be too Pike-ish as well.
That's what DSC would do. You know, for "modern audiences" and "21st century sensibilities."
JFK is the president most closely associated with the US space program and landing on the moon, though NASA actually came into existence under Eisenhower. I would second Teddy Roosevelt, he seems like the type that Kirk would admire.
His Excellency, Rufus T. Firefly...
Agreed, because by Kirk's era history will prove Trump was right on all counts.
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