At every Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, the host country gets to dress the world leaders up in some kind of costume.
This year, China seems determined to have made everyone look utterly ridiculous, even its own leader. Excuse my cultural insensitivity, but they cannot possibly have serious discussions in these outfits.
Here’s a closeup of Sulu and Mr. Spock.
Some video for you, as Captain Kirk welcomes everyone aboard the Starship Enterprise.
Here’s some video of the real Kirk, furious that Chinese President Xi Jinping is pretending that HE is Captain Kirk.
71 thoughts on “Obama Attends Star Trek Convention with Other World Leaders”
Keith: The captions are priceless! LOL
I enjoyed the Daily Mail video. Anything allowed to be released from the US pool yet ? Or aren’t they done photoshopping Obama back to the middle ? /sarc
Several leaders brought their spouses. Michelle would have had fun with them. Ok, maybe not.
Here’s another photo from the Star Trek Convention ;)
http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2012/079/2/6/big_bang_theory__star_trek_style_by_marce07-d4s8a3f.jpg
Don’t miss Twitchy today. The comments are hilarious.
The fact that the Chinese are Trekkies who have enough sense of humor to dress up in Star Trek costumes actually speaks well of them. I would have dressed Obama up as one of the traitorous villains from THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY who betrayed the Federation by provoking a war with the Klingons.
Memories. Back in the dark ages of black&white TV when it referred to the lack of color, not racial differences; Star Trek was a breath of fresh air, a new concept, something marvelous to ponder – imagine – meeting new life forms, working with people of all colors and places of birth in harmony.
It was sheer genius.
Gene Rodenberry and his writers were visionairies who opened our eyes
and minds to what could be, what might be, more so than even the minds of NASA.
I have my application in for Star Fleet Academy… (3 centuries early :-)
And the spooky part, Roddenberry ‘invented’ lap tops & cell phones.
Some afternoons I wish someone would invent the replicator.
3-D copiers – beam me a new part
Space stations – space stations
Who remembers the episode of “V-ger”? It’s still going I hear.
“V-ger” was actually one of the movies.
Or even better, the world leader that was actually a baby.
(My husband could tell you the episode title)
Dear Leader looks like a telephone pole.
He certainly looks very uncomfortable, like a little kid standing all alone on the playground, while the other kids ignore him.
I’m sure he experienced a good bit of rejection until he formed his
“choom gang” and joined other pot heads like him to worship the bong. Dont ya love his phony smile? He’s not truly comfortable unless he’s the center of attention in lecturing mode. What a loser.
He looked extra spindly in those jammies–he has not looked healthy lately.
I wish someone would beam him up.
:)
Really does look like the captions. Good work. But the fool we have in the Oval Office makes this possible. More worried about wearing a Star Trek communist uniform than representing the United States in a gray flannel suit. It just goes on.
He looks a lot like Mao to me.
Smiling too.
Obamao!
Kirk’s tantrum is a lot like Obama’s. I wonder if Obama watched Star Trek over the years, and took his cues from Shatner.
At least when Shatner acts like a jerk, he’s funny. Shatner has the ability to mock and make fun of himself. Barry does not.
You see Star Trek, I see pajama party.
The first thought is why, oh why, did he go along with this costume farce, but after some thought, why not do this. Why not indeed, show Americans how nice it could be if we were all the same, wore the same clothes, marched in unison – behind the dear leader of course.
If I were the POTUS, I would have respectfully declined to wear their clothes in public. I consider it a means of demeaning our President, and of showing how they can manipulate him.
It’s not cute, it’s improper protocol, and an insult to all of us.
imo, of course.
I agree. Notice the man standing sideways has his regular suit on.
Exactly. Can you even imagine what world leaders would do if we gave them certain clothes to wear while visiting our country?
Unimaginable. Rude.
OT Just read an article about o’s gum chewing is being questioned in China. http://www.drudgereport.com
Shocker. I am not one to defend Obama on his inappropriate, constant, nicotine gum chewing. And I won’t here either. But for the Chinese to be oh so put out over his lack of decorum…… I will bet that a million chinese were dispatched to clean up all the globs of spit that are everywhere on the streets and sidewalks and pathways and stairways in China. Gum chewing vs. public spitting.
I get that the spitting is cultural, l’ve lived among the spitters. And those “blow your nose on your handers” as well. So, no approval on gum chewing, spitting and nose blowing — but a big hypocrisy call out to the Chinese on this one.
They did close down all the factories so their would not be as much smug hanging around.
Something about the Asian-Pacific (APEC) conference requires world leaders to dress like Anime convention groupies for some reason or other. Earlier, I did a Bing image search of APEC Presidents, Clinton, Bush2 were also quite festive ;)
Where is MO? Did she refuse to go because she couldn’t wear her own tasteless outfit?
I have always enjoyed Star Trek, especially The Next Generation. Mr0 is no Jean Luc Picard.
I had a thing for Patrick Stewart until I learned he’s a Socialist.
Voyager is my favorite.
Is that the one with John Kerry, I mean, Oddo or is that another one?
Cptn Catherine Janeway. Voyager was pulled millions of light years into the delta quadrant, the Borgs, Seven of Nine…
I grew up watching the original Star Trek, and did enjoy the New Generation shows. I could never watch the shows with Captain Janeway because Kate Mulgrew, the actress who played her, had such an annoying voice I couldn’t stand to listen to her. Much like Barry!
Wow!! Michelle is not even there to be with President Obama…How interesting…. Why is she not even there?? So stupid that she is jealous….MINE I WISH!!!
What’s Val Jarrett wearing?
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Wearing costumes is a tradition.
https://whitehouse.gov1.info/apec-hawaii/
Not all traditions are worth repeating.
The Chinese State Department is as ditsy as ours. Who knew?
How fitting for Dear Leader to be dressed in a Mao jacket.
The captions are funny but this is deadly serious business. The leader of the world’s largest democracy wearing a costumal parody of Communism’s greatest icon tells the story. We are so weak and Number 2 now that we don’t have the fortitude to decline to appear in public in such garb. The only saving grace is that the outfit did feature pants. Had it been a floor length d jellaba it might have made the smile wider and the ears stick out even further.
This is a tradition dating back to 1993.
Ok, that’s why I could only search back to Clinton images.
OT, but where is the Ferguson Grand Jury report? Last Friday it was reported National Guard helicopters were in place and a major employer in town told their peeps to skedaddle. I figured the non-convict opinion would happen today, with Obama safely away in China. Anyone know more?
I wonder if Gov. Nixon is ready to call out the National Guard.
They are now saying in St.L that there will not be a verdict announcement before next Saturday. But just heard on the news that there is a group offering a reward for the murder of Officer Darren Wilson! Holder, Where Are You? Isn’t that a felony to threaten a police officer? Run the bums out of St.Louis!
For the large part, the people causing the trouble are not residents of Ferguson. They are outsiders. Code Pink’s been installed there for quite some time. I’m sure other Commie-agitator groups are there, too.
Hey. Let’s at least be thankful he’s not waving like the class idiot as he’s done in other group shots like this.
FCMABBHO cancelled the silly shit tradition for the 2011 meeting in Hawaii. It was started by Bill Clinton in 1993 for the meeting in Seattle.
Shirt. Silly shirt.
Thats ok, s##t can be used in every sentence describing Obama & his regime
It reminds me of one story I wrote when I was a reporter about a police officer who found drugs in his cruiser’s back seat “after his morning shift.” In my haste to meet the deadline, I left out the “f” and neither the spell-check program nor the copy editor caught it.
That’s very funny. No doubt the readers inserted a “F” while reading as in WTF am I reading. LOL
I got a lot of ribbing from the cops.
You were a reporter? Before or after being a communist?
But only if you use asterisks or hashtags for the middle letters!
I liked “silly shit” better.
Yes, it’s the silly season.
No doubt our first gay president is getting his rear hanger shuttle bay fully loaded with Chinese male photon torpedoes on this colossal waste of time trip to Communist China..
What a colossal dork.
Great title for one of those Japanese sci-fi flics.
National dress since 1993:
http://www.nationaljournal.com/pictures-video/apec-fashion-through-the-years-pictures-20111114
Did the Chinese deliberately give Maobama an ill-fitting jacket? It almost reaches his knees. He looks like part of the kitchen help at the Chinese Cookie Factory.
that should be Chinese Fortune Cookie Factory
And, of course, our president is putting on his idiotic and tiresome photo-op grin.
Obama bowed to the Chinese president today. There’s a photo over at the Gateway Pundit. It seems Obama should have learned proper protocol by now.
No Wookie’s in Star Trek. So she had to stay home.
What a shame that McCain hadn’t won the 2008 election then died. We would have a President Palin attending the event and the Chinese would have no doubt treated us to the sight of Palin dressing up as Captain Kirk’s drill thrall from the Gamesters of Triskelion episode. Energy production would be increasing far more rapidly, the economy would be booming in response to lower energy prices and a manufacturing renasaince, Putin would be deterred from invading Ukraine and Isis never would have been inspired by Obama’s Arab Spring lunacy.
You can’t be serious. Are these pictures real?
Jeebus, this is the Chinese equivalent of Greek columns.
I must admit that the Star Trek robe makes Obama look just like Satan from the movie..
Or is it the leader of the Heaven’s Gate suicide cult?
Either way it’s creepy
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