Seven Of Nine In '08

When I called my last post on the Democratic nominations "Resistance Is Futile," what I forgot was that Barack Obama actually does owe much of his political success to the Borg.

In a manner of speaking.

Let's go back in time (kind of like the Borg! In that movie!) to 2004, when a young Barack Obama was first running for Senate. Who was his opponent? An eminently unelectable looneytune by the name of Rev. Alan Keyes. Alan Keyes' political beliefs were somewhere to the right of Mussolini (gays: "selfish hedonists," all), and he was not even from Illinois. Why was Keyes even in the race?

Because Jack Ryan, the other Republican candidate (no relation to the Tom Clancy character) had been forced to withdraw from the office by an erupting sex scandal. Ryan's wife had filed for divorce, claiming that he had tricked her into accompanying him to public sex dungeons. Jack, next time, ask Dan Savage how to spice up your vanilla relationship, huh? Don't just pull the "voila, sex dungeon" thing.

And who was Jack Ryan's wife? She was, of course, none other than... Jeri Ryan, star of TV's Star Trek: Voyager!

I swear to God it's true. You can read about it here. Seven of Nine singlehandedly launched the career of Barack Obama to the next level.

So... are you thinking what I'm thinking? What if this whole Democratic nomination thing turns out to be some kind of underhanded alien plot?

Man, I knew they never shoulda kept her on board.

[via: Wonkette]