TOM THE DANCING BUG: Can Obama navigate budget battles and science fiction references in "STAR SE-TREK-STER"?

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• [mindysan33]

  What? No Doctor Who? 

  • [Jim Saul]

    He was captured by the Cylons. 

    • [Brainspore]

      Moonbase Alpha can be a dangerous place.

      • [StCredZero]

        The shapeshifter chick was hot! 

    • [robotnik]

      They have a plan!

      • [cellocgw]

        A Cunning Plan?

        • [ocker3]

           As cunning as a fox who graduated from the school of cunning? I’m afraid it’s too late for that

• [NelC]

  What, no Battlestar Galactica?

  • [Box of Cotton Swabs]

    They were captured by Doctor Who.

    • [Christopher]

      What, no Firefly?

      • [Missy Pants]

        Mal and crew are trapped in the future on Red Dwarf.

        • [franko]

          with the crew of Blake’s 7.

        • [NelC]

          Fighting the Monster From The Id!

        • [Antinous / Moderator]

          Fighting the Monster From The Id!

          You can’t scare me with your big words.

          Sadly, no one will get this extremely obscure reference.

        • [Preston Sturges]

          With Robbie The Robot

      • [devophill]

         They were cancelled by Fox.

• [SamSam]

  How did no one see the downside of having the “threat” of the sequester being a Teapartier’s wet dream?

  I guess Obama really thought the cuts on the Pentagon would be the Republican’s sticking point, but the moment Obama started panicking and talking about how terrible the Pentagon cuts were going to be, it was obvious that he had realized that the Republicans were perfectly happy to stomach those cuts to further their “starve the beast” idea.

  Worst negotiation strategy ever.

  • [Les Hutchins]

     Yeah, really.  ‘Let’s propose a solution where you can get everything you really want and will be able to blame any possible downsides on me!’

    I really see Obama as more of a Spock, perplexed by Tea Party emotions.

    • [TheMadLibrarian]

       Especially since almost everything that has been recently proposed has been 99% illogical.

• [Tim Knight]

  Obama has no intention of trying some kind of Star Wars mind meld, you know!

• [Ruben Bolling]

  What?  No SeaQuest DSV?!!

• [bzishi]

  Am I the only one that is bothered that Obama is wearing the rank insignia of a commander and not a captain?

  • [Felton / Moderator]

    Great, another slightly botched science fiction reference for him to live down!

  • [Preston Sturges]

    Everyone else must still be at the Mensa meeting

    • [Just_Ok]

      They can’t figure out how to get out.

  • [Brainspore]

    If only Bolling had used Kirk’s green shirt with the weird built-in wrap-around belt thing so we could catch a glimpse of Obama’s pecs through the collar.

• [Preston Sturges]

  No Terminator? 

• [Preston Sturges]

  I like Biden Spock!

  “Captain, scanners indicate a BFD.”

• [Michael Ellis Day]

  Pleased to see the Romulan uniform is correctly drawn as the original series version and not some later film or tv update.

  http://s3.amazonaws.com/rapgenius/0923romulans.jpg

  But what’s this?  Bolling has the “captain” wearing a lower officer’s blue sash instead of a captain’s red sash, as clearly seen in “Balance of Terror” and “The Enterprise Incident”!  For shame, sir, for shame!

  • [threadthread]

     I like how you give, then you take :)

  • [spejic]

    I love how Obama insulted the Romulan commander by calling him an “Ulan”, the lowest Romulan rank.

• [Navin_Johnson]

  Obama gets to feign a sad while compromising his way into the neoliberal austerity that both Republicans and Democrats (and their wealthy leash holders) have wanted all along. How many more times does he have to put up the wimpiest fight imaginable and then compromise down to what Republicans wanted all along until “Changey” liberals realize that this is what many Democrats want too….

• [Corey Johnson]

  To be fair, Biden would obviously be McCoy in this scenario (grumpy, older, a little less polished).

  • [StCredZero]

    If any democrat is like Spock, it’s Obama. Have Bill Clinton as Kirk. Paint a certain former intern green. 

    • [Preston Sturges]

      FTW! Clinton had Kirk’s hair and would sleep with anything with a pulse.

      I have an old Spy magazine superhero comic book insert.  Clinton wore an Evil Knievel jump suit with sax and cape, Hillary was the  asskicking babe in a red body stocking, Barbara Bush had a rolling pin and a bad attiude (“The Hearthkeeper”) and Al Gore was an anthropomorphic tree (“The Wooden Wonder”)

  • [Allen]

     …and Obama could be the more logical, less emotional Spock; and the American people could the Captain. But, the planet is America, so that wouldn’t exactly work I guess.

• [Brainspore]

  Those Republicans will stop at nothing to take Obama down. It’s like he’s Sarah Connor and the GOP is Robocop.

• [GregS]

  Am I the only one to notice that in the final panel Harry Potter looks like Kurt Godel?

  • [GregS]

    Also, what? No Percival Dunwoody, idiot time traveler?

    • [Michael Ellis Day]

      He’s traveling with the Doctor in their custom DeLorean.

• [Brian Donohue]

  The obvious answer for every right (wing) thinking person: God. No, not the auburn-colored jello from DS9. We need a Q.

• [MattAtDoyle]

  To insanity, AND BEYOND!

• [Gulliver]

  @ Antinous
  

  Sadly, no one will get this extremely obscure reference.

  Danger, Will Robinson, danger!

  YT,
  No One

  • [Antinous / Moderator]

    You win one extra spaceship level that only appeared in a single episode.

• [darlon ripley]

  Elementary, my dear Antinous.  This refers to Forbidden Planet’s unseen and overwhelming monster from the Dr.’s conscient-conshun-continenc–uh brain.