"In that sense Star Trek looks ahead to the society we live in today, where so many people are mixed race, mixed cultural background," Jenkins says. "And I've been thinking about that a lot lately, looking at Barack Obama. There's something in the [Obama] mythology that seems to echo our assumption about Spock — that he's someone able to bridge worlds. And he's indebted to Vulcan philosophy of IDIC, the Vulcan philosophy of infinite diversity and infinite combination. Someone who is of mixed race is seen as being capable of understanding both races."

"Someone who is of mixed race is seen as being capable of understanding both races."

Perhaps at the end of his first term Spock, I mean Obama can transfer all of his experiences as president to the surgen general in order to save air force 1. That being should he ever get around to picking a surgen general.