In the wake of the much loved cameo by Georgia Gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams on the season 4 finale of Star Trek: Discovery, David Letterman’s Big Ass Ham wearing Fidel Castro’s beard, Ted Cruz has weighed in, and he can’t even with this.
Ted. Buddy. There’s a reason you will never be asked to play the President of United Earth. Go watch season 2 of Star Trek: Picard for a clue.
For those that haven’t been following along, Jean-Luc Picard’s long time frenemy Q is back, taking Picard along “the path not taken.” He shows Picard an alternate reality where humanity reigns supreme through fascism. Picard and a motley crew slingshot around the sun à la Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (aka the one with the whales) in order to time travel back to 2024 and make things right.
Without giving away too many spoilers, in one scene set in 2024 Los Angeles, we see ICE breaking down doors in order to round up “illegals.” By showing how cruel this is, the show highlights that we are in the midst of this fascist rise right now.
Ted Cruz is one of America’s foremost cheerleaders for fascism. Fascism is simply state sponsored bullying. And bullies are all cowards. We’ve seen Ted’s cowardice many times. His unwillingness to defend his own wife from Trump’s cruel insults. His ass-kissing of Tucker Carlson when Tukkums called him to the carpet for daring to correctly call January 6th an act of terrorism. Even Ted’s Cancún Winter Getaway was the act of a coward, running away when things got too hot (or cold in this case.)
Ted Cruz is the very antithesis of what Star Trek aims for, and in its best moments, stands for. The only organization Ted is qualified to preside over is the League of Annoyance.