If Vulcans and Romulans can get along, why can’t Americans?

Quick question: how in the heck are we EVER going to form an alliance with the Klingon homeworld — figuratively and literally if Gene Roddenberry were a fortune teller — if Republicans and Democrats refuse to go on dates?

Spoiler alert: this is going to get nerdy.

TURN BACK!

Two thinks you’ll need to know about me:

— I love every Star Trek series but especially ST:TNG (count yourself among my geeky brethren and/or sisteren if you read that as "Star Trek: The Next Generation)."

— I am a ri-dic-u-lous romantic.

Nothing gets my heart pounding harder than a different side of the track romance.

I get very excited each and every time Democrat James Carville and his Republican-turned Independent wife Mary Matalin are on CNN.

A Canton Repository column about a very Republican at-large councilwoman in Alliance booed up with a Democratic Stark County criminal attorney gave me feels big time.

The only thing that would have made the story better would have been if Julie Jakmides was also a Vulcan and Edmond Mack were at least part Ferengi.

If those crazy kids could get together and make it work, we humans could one day "go where no man (or woman) has gone before."

Prepare to climb aboard the starship USS Enterprise, my humans.

If things go as I hope, we will eventually be running around in space with Andorians, Vulcan and Tellarites and eventually forming the Federation of Planets.

Yeah I know it is just a show, but a girl can dream.

At the rate we are going, humans won’t be experiencing trouble with Tribbles anytime soon.

The discourse in this country alone would make any alien race seeking first contact with us turn their ship around and say “nope.”

Americans go after Americans the way Vulcans went after Vulcans before the philosopher Surak (you know, the father of the modern Vulcan civilization) led the great reformation.

Told you it would get nerdy.

We can’t get along with each other let alone the rest of the human race bumping around on the third rock from the Sun we’ve named Earth.

We don’t simply dislike each other due to political leanings. We kind of hate each other.

For the first time in the history of a Pew Research Center survey about partisanship and political animosity that dates back to 1992, the majority of people from both parties express not just unfavorable but very unfavorable views of the other party.

Fifty-five percent of Democrats said the Republican Party made them “afraid.” Forty-nine percent of Republicans say the same about the Democrats.

That survey is from June.

I think we can all agree that things have gotten a little worse since then… just a little.

If we find each other so frightening, how then will we be able to find common ground with the rest of the world or (I hope, I hope, I hope) the universe one day.

People would likely have a very, very, very unfavorable response to a Talaxian or a Betazoid at this point.

Think about me.

I really, really want to believe we could be friends with a real Talaxian and or Betazoid.

Let’s not make the aliens turn around and head back to the mothership.

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