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Late Night Open Thread: Here’s to the Celebrity of the President of United Earth

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People magazine! My teenage self would’ve cherished every word of this article…

… Abrams, who is currently the only Democratic candidate in Georgia’s race for governor, has been vocal about her future plans to serve as the president of the United States. She previously told Five Thirty Eight that she hopes to run by 2040.

Discovery star Sonequa Martin-Green raved about Abrams’ cameo, telling Deadline that the cast, including Chelah Horsdal, Doug Jones, Anthony Rapp, Mary Wiseman, Wilson Cruz, David Ajala, Blu del Barrio and Ian Alexander, were all ecstatic to spend time with the politician.

“I’m still floored when I think about Stacey gracing us with her presence in our Season 4 finale,” Martin-Green said. “We spent so much of our time fanning out and pretending to be cool in her midst.”

Praising Abrams, the actress added, “She’s a legend in the making and a civil hero, and she was an absolute delight to work with. She wowed us with her charm, humility, and generosity, and she whipped out some acting chops too! It was an honor for me as a Black woman to stand with her in the story. It’s an experience I’ll cherish for the rest of my life.”…

Because of her deep love for the series, Abrams had one request when stepping into the role as fictional president, according to executive Producer Michelle Paradise. Abrams agreed to the role if they promised not to spoil anything from season 4 — and just give her the information she needed to play the role.

“She was very specific about that,” Paradise told Variety. “She wanted to be able to just watch it and enjoy when the show finally came out. So, yeah, we avoided all the spoilers.”…

Paradise added, “When the time came to start talking about the president of Earth, it seemed like, ‘Well, who better to represent that than her?’ ”

Casting Abrams paid off. “There’s just something that made us think, ‘Well, of course she can do it,’ ” Paradise continued. “And she did. She just blew us away.”…

And to make it even better!

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  1. 1.

    mrmoshpotato

    Ahh yes. Bitching about Star Trek for racist, sexist reasons. Cry harder, Trump trash slapdicks.

  3. 3.

    Geminid

    @mrmoshpotato: I have no doubt that Stacey Abrams would make a good President of Earth. She is a formidable politician. She makes a good display of her shrewd practical policy and messaging skills in an interview published by Atlanta.capitalBbnews.org published February 7 of this year, which I will attempt to link:

    Link

  5. 5.

    H.E.Wolf

    @Geminid: I have no doubt that Stacey Abrams would make a good President of Earth. She is a formidable politician. She makes a good display of her shrewd practical policy and messaging skills in an interview published by Atlanta.capitalBbnews.org published February 7 of this year

    Thank you for the recommendation! Excellent article; and your description is spot-on.

    I think this may be the link – if not, that’s good news because then there’ll be 2 fabulous interviews with Stacey Abrams! :)
    https://atlanta.capitalbnews.org/stacey-abrams-vision-for-one-georgia/

  6. 6.

    Sebastian

    Go, Stacey!

    also

    ⚡️ NATO to send air defense systems to Slovakia.

    Germany and the Netherlands will deliver MIM-104 Patriot PAC-3 air defense systems to Slovakia.

    Prior, Slovak Defense Minister said that his country would transfer the Soviet-made S-300 air defense systems to Ukraine.
    — The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) March 19, 2022

  8. 8.

    Calouste

    Ted Cruz is just jealous that he never got asked to play the President of Cuba in The Man in the High Castle

  10. 10.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Calouste:

    Ted Cruz is just jealous that he never got asked to play the President of Cuba in The Man in the High Castle 

    Well, he would have to flee to Cuba first, not Cancun.  (I’ve never seen the series.)

  12. 12.

    Geminid

    @H.E.Wolf: Stacey Abrams kicked her campaign into a higher gear last Monday evening with an Atlanta rally that began her “One Georgia” tour of the state.

       Politico reported:

          “I want you to join me to make joy for Georgia,” Abrams told the crowd. “To make opportunity for Georgia. To bring success to Georgia. I want you to stand with me. I want you to run with me, and I want you to win with me. Because in November of 2022, we are going to become Governor of the great state of Georgia. Of One Georgia.”

    Abrams spoke of the need to bring good health care to all Georgians, and she used her father’s case as an example. Mr. Abrams first had surgery for prostate cancer 15 years ago, and then another more recent surgery led to life-threatening sepsis. But because of the pandemic, Abrams had moved her parents into her Atlanta home, and he had access to that city’s “world class” medical care, and it saved his life. But as Abrams pointed out, many Georgians might not have fared as well:

         “It makes no sense that in the state of Georgia, if he had lived a few miles away or a few counties away, my father would not with us here today.

    This is a solvable problem. And by God, as Governor of Georgia, I am going to fix it!”

  13. 13.

    Steeplejack

    Hmm, the tweets are (not) showing up for me as big blank areas. But I can still click on them. Suboptimal. Android, Brave browser.

  14. 14.

    Baud

    I’m sure Star Trek Discovery can visit a planet of slime creatures if Ted Cruz really wants equal time.

  15. 15.

    Geminid

    @Baud: I can see a comic episode, in which the starship encounters a beat up, disabled freighter and rescues it. On board are four nasty pirates squabbling about which one is the captain: Ted Cruz, Tom Cotton, Josh Hawley, and Rand Paul.

  17. 17.

    NeenerNeener

    Yep, this is the scene that had somebody all in a tizzy over on the Primetimer Star Trek: Discovery forum because, according to her, “Star Trek is for everybody” and having Stacey Abrams on was promoting liberal politics.  Star Trek has been promoting liberal politics from the first night it aired in the 60s and it’s never stopped, and the Discovery incarnation has gay couples and non-binary characters and interspecies relationships, so why Stacey Abrams caused this particular poster to wail about the promotion of liberal politics stunned me. The moderators deleted her post and put up a reminder that they don’t allow fights about politics.

  21. 21.

    NeenerNeener

    @Ken: Yeah, but the message was always “Nazis bad, racism bad”, so it’s hard to see how it ever celebrated conservative politics.

  22. 22.

    lollipopguild

    Meanwhile, I am sure trump is still getting two scoops of ice cream while everyone else gets just one.

  23. 23.

    SFAW

    @NeenerNeener:

    interspecies relationships,

    Rethugs should support that, since some of their “leading (b)lights” (e.g., Cruz) are married to humans.

    ETA: If the general public all had Rowdy Roddy’s “sunglasses,” the Rethugs would still get 40 percent of the vote (“Better our skeletor overlords than a Demon-crap”), but the remaining 60 percent would be much more united against Rethugs.

    ETA2: Well, except for Rose twitter: “I see no difference between the two sides”

  24. 24.

    H.E.Wolf

    @Geminid: “Stacey Abrams kicked her campaign into a higher gear last Monday evening with an Atlanta rally that began her “One Georgia” tour of the state.​”

     More great news – thank you for posting the excerpt!

    I had the good luck to be an event volunteer at a Stacey Abrams event in 2019. One of her many talents is that of inviting people to become their best and most powerful selves. By the end of the event, everyone in the room was alight from within.

  25. 25.

    SFAW

    @Baud:

    I’m sure Star Trek Discovery can visit a planet of slime creatures if Ted Cruz really wants equal time.

    FTFTFNYT lede: “In this diner in the village of X!regioabyy#W on Planet Meepzorp. some of the patrons are ‘discussing’ local-slime-makes-good Ted Cruz …”

  26. 26.

    Geminid

    @H.E.Wolf: Stacey Abrams’ words get me pretty fired up, even from a distance.

    Her theme of “One Georgia” is intriguing. Republicans lean into division, and they are not the only ones. Abrams is seizing the high ground, and treating all Georgians as persuadable voters even when she knows that many are not. That’s not weakness, but is instead a canny, pragmatic approach by a strong and confident woman.

    And the divisisive contest between Kemp and Perdue for the Republican nomination provides an almost perfect counterpoint to Abrams’ theme.

  27. 27.

    topclimber

    @Geminid: I like her formulation that she wants to represent one Georgia while the GQP candidates want to represent one man, namely TFG.

  28. 28.

    azlib

    I heard Stacey is a member of SAG. Clearly she has some acting chops. He also appeared on Trek the Vote last year and won the trivia contest. She is a huge Star Trek fan.

    I am not a big Discovery fan, but it was nice to see Stacey show up in her cameo role. Its just a bonus it made Cruz lose it.

  29. 29.

    Jerzy Russian

    @azlib:   I faithfully watch  Star Trek Discovery and Star Trek Picard when new episodes come out.   I was a bit underwhelmed by the season-ending episode of Discovery.  I am ashamed to admit that I did not immediately recognize Abrams in that final scene as the President of United Earth.  Instead, I was thinking of the three powerful Black women in that scene:  the Discovery captain, the military (for lack of a better term) leader from Earth, and the President of United Earth, and how collectively those women would cause wingnut heads to explode.  That episode retroactively became 10 times better for me when I learned that Abrams had that cameo role.

  30. 30.

    Parfigliano

    If they ever do a re-boot of “Mirror Mirror” Trump would be perfect for President of Earth.

  31. 31.

    SFAW

    @Jerzy Russian:

    I faithfully watch Star Trek Discovery and Star Trek Picard when new episodes come out. I was a bit underwhelmed by the season-ending episode of Discovery.

    I semi-agree re: Discovery, but I viewed it as maybe a “we don’t know if we’ll get renewed, so we’re going to tie up all sorts of loose ends” episode.

    I, on the other hand, have been underwhelmed by this season’s Picard. It sort-of reminds me of a “hey, kids, let’s put on a show!” everything-but-the-kitchen-sink kind of thing.

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