Stacey Abrams might be the biggest political Star Trek fan

The New York Times

In a profile of the failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate and potential Democratic presidential contender, Sarah Lyall writes of Abrams: "She has seen every iteration of Star Trek and can recite with picayune detail the obscure plot points from incidents buried deep in the canon. She likes space-time anomalies. She admires Captain Picard but reveres Admiral Janeway. One of her favorite things is 'Shattered,' the 157th episode of Voyager, in which the ship goes through a temporal rift that tantalizingly splits it into different timelines." Abrams writes in her new book that she's even used Star Trek for political inspiration, specifically The Next Generation's "Peak Performance" episode. “Data reframed his objective — not to win outright but to stay alive, passing up opportunities for immediate victory in favor of a strategy of survival,” she says in the book. “My lesson is simpler: change the rules of engagement.”