Georgia gubernatorial candidate and voting rights activist Stacey Abrams has become president of United Earth.
An honor that a leading conservative website said Abrams didn’t deserve was given to the Paramount+ television series Star Trek: Discovery in its fourth season finale.
Abrams is a true Star Trek fan. In 2019, she told the New York Times that she became addicted to episodes during her most recent run for governor.
“I love Voyager, I love Discovery, and of course I respect the original,” she said, “but I respect The Next Generation.
Michelle Paradise, executive producer of Star Trek: Discovery, told Variety that the show decided it needed a figure of the right authority.
“When it came time to talk about the President of the Earth,” she said, “it seemed like, ‘Well, who can represent it better than her?
Abrams is a former Democratic member of the Georgia House of Representatives and a prolific writer-lover. She stated that she would become President of the United States by 2040.
In 2018, she nominated Republican Brian Kemp for governor of Georgia. She is seeking revenge this year and, thanks in part to her work on voting rights, has become known in the national party as she was considered for Vice President Joe Biden.
Abrams’ work helped secure both Biden’s victory in Georgia in 2020 and Democratic control of the U.S. Senate thanks to two runoffs in Georgia.
Such work made her a target of the right. On Friday, the conservative website National Review ran a column about her Star Trek cameo: Stacy Abrams doesn’t deserve to be President of Earth.
Abrams, the review said, “is currently best known for losing the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election and then continues to deny she lost.”
Abrams refused to give in to Kemp, who, as Secretary of State of Georgia, oversaw the purge of voter rolls ahead of an election in which he ran.
Brad Ruffensperger, Georgia’s current Secretary of State, argued that Abrams’ refusal to concede was “morally indistinguishable from former President Donald Trump’s post-2020 presidential election behavior and helped pave the way for it.”
Raffensperger has been known to stand up to Trump, whose request that Raffensperger “find” enough votes to turn the state over is at the center of a grand jury investigation.
Abrams told the New York Times in 2019 that while she “legally recognizes[d] that Brian Kemp got enough votes under our existing system to become governor of Georgia. I do not accept that this process was correct, and I do not condone it.”
She also said, “I have no empirical evidence that I would have received more votes. However, I have sufficient and, I think, legally sufficient doubts about the process to say that this was an unfair election.”
The Review complained that Star Trek would never make Trump president of Earth, even “in the way that evil genetic superman Khan Noonien Singh once ruled despotically over a quarter of the Earth’s population.”
It added: “In classic fashion Trek Abrams [was] shown as a logical and inevitable result of that technocratic progressivism that has long been promoted in the series, as the fruit of our highest ideals. Her behavior in the political sphere does not seem to confirm this.”
Eli Mistal, Nation Writer answered: “Watch how conservative white people react to a FABULOUS black female president.”
Mistal also linked the Review’s critique to events in Washington, DC, where Ketanji Brown Jackson will begin hearing next week to confirm the first black woman to the Supreme Court.
“Next week,” Mistal wrote, “the same publication that can’t handle a black female president ON TV is going to say it has reasonable and *totally non-racist* thoughts about a real black woman in the Supreme Court. ”
The creators of Star Trek: Discovery only seemed happy because Abrams was on set. They also explained how they honored her request not to reveal the plot of her episode so she could enjoy it later.
Filmed last August in Toronto, the episode ended with Abrams “telling the show’s lead character…” There’s a lot of work to do, the Washington Post reported. Are you ready for this?
“‘I,’ [Captain Michael Burnham] answers. “Let’s get down to it.”
Sonequa Martin-Green, who played Burnham, told Variety that she was “overwhelmed… and truly moved” by Abrams’ performance.
“It really meant the highlight of the season when she was there,” she said, “because she is such a symbol of hope, strength, connection, sacrifice, and creating something bigger than yourself that will last for generations, and that’s exactly what What are we talking about. about what to do in this story.
According to Martin-Green, at a “cherished moment” Abrams was presented with a trophy, a captain’s badge and a poem.