The Internal Revenue Service executive who portrayed Spock in the agency’s Star Trek video parody apologized to lawmakers today for inappropriate spending on a $4.1 million conference in 2010. The videos “at the time they were made, were an attempt...
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Zachary Quinto and Chris Pine star as Spock and Kirk in Paramount Pictures' "Star Trek Into Darkness" in this handout photo taken on Jan. 12, 2012.
‘Mr. Spock’ (IRS) Apologizes: Conference Does Not Compute
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, with Deforest Kelley, Walter Koenig, William Shatner, James Doohan, and George Takei, 1984.
IRS’s Star Trek, Gilligan’s Island Videos Challenged by Congressman
Star Trek fans might recognize the Internal Revenue Service as a somewhat Vulcan enterprise — logical, humorless and inscrutable. Rep. Charles Boustany wants to see for himself. The Louisiana Republican is pressing the tax agency to turn over copies of...
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Updated 3:08 pm EST President Barack Obama is no Jedi knight, and no Vulcan — by his own accounts today. And he’s certainly not both. It would seem that to cross “Star Wars” and “Star Trek” in one reference, as...
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The Klingon Bird of Prey from "Star Trek: The Voyage Home."
Star Trek vs. Navy: Klingons vs. Lockheed Martin
Which is the U.S. Navy talking, and which is Star Trek talking? One of the descriptions below comes from the Navy’s words for the Littoral Combat Ship, or LCS, a fast boat from Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics designed to defeat...
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