Star Trek: The Libertarian Edition

Their mission: to seek out new life and new civilizations, and leave them alone. Trade with them if they want, but mostly leave them the hell alone. In honor of Star Trek's 50th Anniversary, Reason presents the Libertarian parody of the final frontier, with appearances by Gary Johnson and Remy.

It’s Star Trek’s Fiftieth Anniversary! To celebrate half a century of terrific science fiction I teamed up with the good folks at Reason to make “Star Trek: The Libertarian Edition.” It turns out when Reason wants a funny person with boundless depths of sci-fi knowledge, I’m on the shortlist. In fact my pervasive knowledge of Star Trek is a little unnerving. When writing the scripts with Austin and Meredith Bragg, it became apparent that I don’t recall things like my blood type or where I left my keys, but I do remember the class of ship for every single Enterprise.

Last week I went to a show at Gotham Comedy Club hosted by William Shatner, and am happy to report that the hammy eighty-five year-old looks great. I still have a shot of meeting that guy. Before the show my friend (who wrote most of his jokes) asked for my help on combining Star Trek with old age jokes, and I came up with a gag about Florida that Shatner ended up using. Thus assuring my eventual passage to Nerd Valhalla.