miss_s_b: (Sci-fi: McCoy)miss_s_b ([personal profile] miss_s_b) wrote,
@ 2009-09-29 10:51 pm UTC
Current mood: gin-laden
Entry tags:#ldconf, druffen, rambles, trek
Will Howells has just made a comment on twitter that reminded me of one of the things that struck me at conference.

Cleggy is Captain Kirk.

No, seriously, stay with me on this one.

Kirk has a kind of gung-ho charm, and his heart's mostly in the right place, but he ain't all that as far as captaincy goes. What he has got, in Spock and McCoy and Sulu and Scotty and Uhura and Chekov and even Nurse Chapel, is a top notch team. He also has the management skills to deploy them where their talents are best suited, even if this means bending the rules a bit sometimes. I also suspect that Kirk's had at least 30 ladies.

The problem we have, as a party, is that we have a Sulu in Chris Huhne, and an Uhura in Jo Swinson, and a Janice Rand in Lynne Featherstone, and a Nurse Chapel in El Presidente... But the whole rest of the party is stuffed full of Spocks, and much as I adore the Spockster, we really could do with a McCoy or two to balance things up.


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burkesworks: (feynman)


[personal profile] burkesworks
2009-09-29 10:09 pm UTC (link)
we really could do with a McCoy or two to balance things up.

Enter Vince. He is a Doctor after all...

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miss_s_b: (feminist heroes: oracle)


[personal profile] miss_s_b
2009-09-29 10:10 pm UTC (link)
He's one of the Spocks. All rationality and stuff. Even when it comes to bees.

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nadriel: (devil)


[personal profile] nadriel
2009-09-29 10:14 pm UTC (link)
"Dammit Jim, I'm a doctor, not a political advisor!"

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[identity profile] mooism.livejournal.com
2009-09-29 10:38 pm UTC (link)
"Britain: the final challenge. These are the policies of the Liberal Democrats. Our five year campaign: to understand strange new dilemmas, to seek out new truths and new possibilities; to boldly win where no Lib Dem has won before."

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miss_s_b: (sci-fi: George Takei)


[personal profile] miss_s_b
2009-09-29 10:39 pm UTC (link)
:D

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I'm sure I wasn't the only one to think something like this:


(Anonymous)
2009-09-29 11:03 pm UTC (link)
Lib Demmin' across the universe,
On the Starship Libbyduck under Captain Clegg.
Lib Demmin' across the universe,
No longer coming third because Labour's polling worse.

Lt. Swinson, report.
There's defectors on the starboard bow, starboard bow, starboard bow;
there's defectors on the starboard bow, starboard bow, Nick.

Analysis, Mr. Huhne.
It's P.R., Nick, but not as we know it, not as we know it, not as we know it;
it's P.R., Nick, but not as we know it, not as we know it, Captain.

There's defectors on the starboard bow, starboard bow, starboard bow;
there's defectors on the starboard bow, starboard bow, Nick.

Lib Demmin' across the universe,
On the Starship Libbyduck under Captain Clegg.
Lib Demmin' across the universe,
Only going forward, still can't find reverse.

Polling update, Mr. Davey.
It's worse than that, we're stuffed, Nick, stuffed, Nick, stuffed, Nick;
it's worse than that, we're stuffed, Nick, stuffed, Nick, stuffed.

It's P.R., Nick, but not as we know it, not as we know it, not as we know it;
it's P.R., Nick, but not as we know it, not as we know it, Captain.

There's defectors on the starboard bow, starboard bow, starboard bow;
there's defectors on the starboard bow, starboard bow, Nick.

Gunnery officer, Hilary Stephenson:
Ah! We come in peace, Focus to kill, Focus to kill, Focus to kill;
we come in peace, Focus to kill, Focus to kill, men.

It's worse than that, we're stuffed, Nick, stuffed, Nick, stuffed, Nick;
it's worse than that, we're stuffed, Nick, stuffed, Nick, stuffed.

Well, it's P.R., Nick, but not as we know it, not as we know it, not as we know it;
it's P.R., Nick, but not as we know it, not as we know it, Captain.

There's defectors on the starboard bow, starboard bow, starboard bow;
there's defectors on the starboard bow, scrape 'em off, Nick.

Lib Demmin' across the universe,
On the Starship Libbyduck under Captain Clegg.
Lib Demmin' across the universe,
Only going forward, and things are getting worse!

Engineer, Mr. Alexander:
Ye cannot change the manifesto, manifesto, manifesto;
ye cannot change the manifesto, manifesto, Nick.

Ah! We come in peace, Focus to kill, Focus to kill, Focus to kill;
we come in peace, Focus to kill; Hilary, beam me up!

It's worse than that, we're stuffed, Nick, stuffed, Nick, stuffed, Nick;
it's worse than that, we're stuffed, Nick, stuffed, Nick, stuffed.

Well, it's P.R., Nick, but not as we know it, not as we know it, not as we know it;
it's P.R., Nick, but not as we know it, not as we know it, Captain.

There's defectors on the starboard bow, starboard bow, starboard bow;
there's defectors on the starboard bow, better calm down!

Ye cannot change the script Nick.
Och, #!*& Nicky.

It's worse than that, it's national swing, Nick.

Bridge to engine room, deploy Cable.

Och, if I give it any more she'll blow, Cap'n!

Lib Demmin' across the universe,
On the Starship Libbyduck under Captain Clegg.
Lib Demmin' across the universe,
No longer coming third because Labour's polling worse.

Lib Demmin' across the universe,
On the Starship Libbyduck under Captain Clegg.
Lib Demmin' across the universe,
Never passed a policy the leader can't reverse.





(apologies to all concerned!! And I can't find a decent rhyme to replace Captain Kirk so the Clegg line jars a bit!)

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miss_s_b: (Mood: Laughter)

Re: I'm sure I wasn't the only one to think something like this:


[personal profile] miss_s_b
2009-09-29 11:36 pm UTC (link)
Somebody has WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY too much typing time.

Have you submitted this to the Liberator Songbook?

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[identity profile] millenniumelephant.blogspot.com
2009-09-29 11:20 pm UTC (link)
Darn it, Auntie Jennie, I'm a FLUFFY ELEPHANT not a SPOCK!

MM xx

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miss_s_b: (feminist heroes: oracle)


[personal profile] miss_s_b
2009-09-29 11:35 pm UTC (link)
Tribble :P

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Too many McCoys, not enough Spocks


[identity profile] joeotten.blogspot.com
2009-09-29 11:24 pm UTC (link)
No I think we have too many over-emotional McCoys, constantly suspicious of the Spocks' rationalism. Just because Spock thinks things through, it doesn't mean he ever fails to stand up for what is important. I wish the McCoys would realise this.

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miss_s_b: (feminist heroes: oracle)

Re: Too many McCoys, not enough Spocks


[personal profile] miss_s_b
2009-09-29 11:33 pm UTC (link)
Really? Because the only one approaching McCoyhood I can think of is Tim Farron.

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Re: Too many McCoys, not enough Spocks


[personal profile] po8crg
2009-09-29 11:42 pm UTC (link)
Listen to a nuclear power debate or a GM food debate.

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miss_s_b: (feminist heroes: oracle)

Re: Too many McCoys, not enough Spocks


[personal profile] miss_s_b
2009-09-29 11:45 pm UTC (link)
Ah. Well, Spock was a bit prone to Woowoo as well, on occasion. I mean, pon farr and all that.

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