Trekkers: What alien species do the Republicans remind you of?

[Cannikin]

I was thinking Ferengi with a little Borg collective thrown in...

(edited to clarify ALIEN)

[TXlib]

1. That fits.

[Cannikin]

35. Kick

[slackmaster]

2. I had a dream about the "Lardassians" last night

I was at a party hosted by one of them who was named Butterneck. Looked a bit like Rush Limbaugh before he lost weight.

There were lots of beautiful human women there, but they all knew that I had once performed the song You Are My Sunshine by vomiting it.

[Bucky]

49. Whatever the contest, whatever the guidelines, this post wins

Slack, this is post is like poetry. *sniff*

[muchacho]

3. Cardasions

During the occupation of bejore

[KissMyAsscroft]

8. Bingo....

You are correct!

[Loonman]

4. Romulans

The Borg have no politics.

[proud patriot]

5. Definitely The Ferengi

yup!

[TheDebbieDee]

6. Definitely, the Ferengi...........

All that matters is the increase in the wealth of those that already have the assets.

[newyawker99]

50. Hi TheDeb!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[supernova]

7. Ferengi

In fact, the first time I saw a Ferengi, I thought "Newt!"

[alittlelark]

48. Certainly Ferengi

Rumsfeld even looks like one!

9. I vote for the Daleks

I know - wrong series

Encased in their pepperpot-shaped travel machines, each Dalek is a mutant monstrosity from the planet Skaro. They are one of the Galaxy's most fearsome races, with no thoughts other than that of conquest. The Daleks consider themselves the most superior race in the Universe. Humanity and all of the other species in the Galaxy may be permitted to live as their slaves - but that which they cannot subjugate they will destroy.

[KissMyAsscroft]

10. Actually there was an episode called "Skin of Evil"

That black goopy mass reminds me of the core of the Republican Party.

[Liberal Veteran]

31. Yeah, nothing is scarier than a hefty bag with glitter sprinkled on it.

I hated that episode.

[SOteric]

11. What species was the slime creature that killed Tasha Yar?

[Rowdyboy]

12. No question

They're Ferengi, all right. Slmiy, greedy, grubby, sexually exploitive perverts that all decent people abhor.

Pat Robertson, Donald Wildmon and the Christian Coalition et al are the Borg..."We are Borg...You must assimililate...Resistence is futile..."

[arwalden]

13. Species 8472

[Endangered Specie]

14. Id say Cardassian

Their political system and government are quite similiar (oppresive). Like how you can get arrested and not know the charges until the trial, which the verdict is already decided.

OF course, I can see the argument for Ferengi... absolute greed, unregulated capitalism, oppress females.

[Terwilliger]

36. can't be Cardassians...they care about their children

[trotsky]

15. No way are they Ferengi, folks.

Simple reason: even the Ferengi play by the rules (of acquisition).

For Republicans, there are no rules. Well, there are rules - for everyone else.

I'm going with the goo.

[Cannikin]

17. LOL!!! That was good!

[coloradodem2005]

16. All of the ones mentioned, plus my analogy.

The Dominion. In Deep Space Nine they made war with the Federation. George Bush's America is starting to remind me more of them.

[Cannikin]

18. As Roddenberry spun in his grave......

[SoCalDem]

19. Morlocks

[PATRICK]

23. oh, alien species?

Ferengi definitely. Might I point out that in H G Wells' original book the Morlocks are descendants of the downtrodden working class who by sheer irony now feast on the privileged elite who have become pretty useless parasites preserving the veneer of civilization?

What the movies did in the fifties(Red Scare) and in the latest version is obliterate all social commentary pertaining to this and substitute the calamity du jour to remove socialist comments about the trends. At least in the older version there was an anti-war message Wells also preached. The newer version turned it into a navel-gazing personal journey for the inventor with a natural disaster creating the odd challenging new world. never a question of bringing a moral message back to our time. None at all.

Such is the decline of our civilization marked by our current easy editing.

[PATRICK]

20. Mockingbirds, boars and crocs

Male lions as they really are. Termites.I don't think they are up to simian standards, barely in the class of nurturing mammals or socially cooperative species.

This is what intelligence abuse and desertion of higher human functions gets you. You can't even go back to the slug to recapture dignity.

[ZenLefty]

21. The Squire of Gothos is their leader

The republican voters all have the brains of tribbles.

[EstimatedProphet]

22. Tapeworms

Or maybe liver flukes

[Rabrrrrrr]

24. They have the greed and lack of intellectual curiosity of the ferengi

and wuold like to think of themselves as believing in individual freedom, but that in respect - personal freedom - they are very Borg-like, in that they believe that individual freedom means the right to be just like their leaders tell them to be.

But they also have some of the jack-booted thug mentality of the Cardassians.

They have the warmongering desire of the Klingons, except they have the cowardice of the Ferengi, and so they really aren't warriors at all; they're the "bring 'em on!" kind of warriors who send others to fight their battles.

SOteric and others had it good about republicans being like the black ooze that killed Yar.

So maybe it should be - the greed and cowardice of the ferengi, the group-hive mentality of the borg, the petty thugness and vindictiveness and hatred of those who are different of the Cardassians, the war-glorifying attitude of the Klingons (but tempered with that Ferengi cowardice, don't forget) and the abject cruelty and hatred of the black ooze.

[Enraged_Ape]

25. Gorns, no doubt

Even the Ferengi aren't as mercilessly ruthless as the lizard men in power.

[Ediacara]

26. Philosophical ones: Ferengi, The vast majority: Borg

There are some that can wax poetic about the free market and will so anything to monetarily screw an orphanage.

The rest... well they seem like they're just zombies lacking in thought processes, with a need to take over the mind of everyone in the world, much like the Borg.

[alfredo]

28. No, the Ferengi had a strict moral code. If anything, they were the most

moral creatures on the show. Their moral code may be odious to us, but to them it made perfect sense.

[HereSince1628]

27. Tribbles, superficially fuzzy, ecologically disasters

[bubblesby2002]

29. The Caisson

Not sure if I'm spelling that correctly. But you know the truly ugly guys from Voyageur who keep trying to take over the ship and th3e galaxy? Those guys.

[Terwilliger]

38. The Kazon were brutish and unrefined

the Pukes are refined

[CanuckAmok]

30. Not Trek, but the Lizardpeople from "V".

They establish a fascist government, and suspend civil liberties in the name of national security, so they can strip the planet of its natural resources.

And they eat small mammals.

Sounds like the Bush family to me.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

32. DINGDINGDINGDINGDINGDING!!! We have a winnah! (nt)

[Kamika]

33. I must say romulans

THey arent ferengi, but close, but the ferengi still had some sort of code they lived by, and they arent as ignorant or stupid, cardassians were very militaristic but hardly stupid..

absolutely not borg..

its tough.. no species really fit

[baldguy]

34. Romulans have no honor.

[Terwilliger]

37. I was thinking Pakleds

"We look for things...things that make us money" "Money helps us go"

[kodi]

39. frengi are too free market, the borg mentality fits the GOP like a glove

when i look at bush, cheney and delay i see borg, not free wheeling captialist ferengi.

ferengi want as few laws as possible so as to be able to accumulate wealth, the GOP has a hideous mutant beast of an economc philosophy grafting a little adam smith, social darwinism, hobbesian bleakness, a touch of keynes just for spice, and selective moralities from the bible to hide their whoring ways.

the GOP makes the ferengi look like DLC.

[Cassandra]

40. Actually, they are Nightwatch on Babylon 5

I think that part originally ran during an election (Clinton v. Dole?). If the Repukes had realized that was meant to be them, they would have pulled the plug on the series.

[banana republican]

41. The Insects in Starship Troopers

The Service *Needs You*. Citizenship guaranteed.

Want to learn more:

http://www.buzzflash.com/analysis/03/05/29_delay.html

[Crunchy Frog]

42. Definitely the Borg

but with some Cardassian sleaziness thrown in.

[Endangered Specie]

43. They are the Founders...

They control and manipulate their armies, sent them to die with no care or concern.

They think all others are inferior.

They have a greed for land and space.

Casualty counts of any group dont matter to them, except, their own kind.

Meanwhile... they live rich lives in the link

[Kamika]

51. I don't know

The founders is a good suggestion but there's something about them that isn't republican.. can't put my finger to it.

[the_boxer_]

44. The aliens in V the final battle...

They had human skin but were reptiles underneath.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

45. The little pancake thingies

that attacked Mr. Spock and wrapped themselves around his cerebral cortex.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

46. bodysnatchers!...

Invasion of the Bodysnatchers... :shrug: sorry i'm not a trekky

[Bonobo]

47. The Salt Vampires!!!

With those suction cup things all over them....yuck!

[SideshowScott]

52. If a Frenigi had sex with a Borg they would give birth to a republican

Now that would be an interesting Ep! We all know that Kirk= Bill Clinton

[noonwitch]

53. LOL!!

Good analogy.