" Kirk was a man who marveled and greatly appreciated the endless surprises presented to him by the universe...He didn't take things for granted and, more than anything else, respected life in every one of its weird weekly adventure forms." - William Shatner
A filibuster proof Senate should assure the big O a complete romp for this upcoming appointment. Why not do something daring with a nominee and appoint someone not so invested in gender, race or ethnicity ? The ultimate ambassador to free will, honor and decency. Someone like James T. Kirk, the fictional Captain of the space vessel Enterprise depicted on TV and the big screen. 
We need someone who can appeal to a sense of justice beyond our current federal hegemony. Someone who could check that power with say the United Federation of Planets. Perhaps this fresh new hot Kirk could inure us with a sense that the Universe wasn't completely absurd and beyond our daily control. Much like the current courts have done for decades upon decades. Rather, we might get something akin to the Prime Directive.
"Some day, my People are going to come up with some sort of a doctrine, something that says what we can and can't do out here, should and shouldn't do. But until someone tells me that they've drafted that... directive, I'm going to have to remind myself every day, that we didn't come out here to play God." - Jonathon Archer
The big O is part of the dastardly preisthood that interprets the simple document designed a couple hundred years ago to keep the government off our backs. Pick the ammendment, the clause or the interpretation and this class of people spends years deciding what in fact we can or cannot do in our own homes, lives and vehicles. At least when Kirk shows up you either agree with him or end up in some sort of combat over your differences. 
Kirk was a man of action in a vast Universe. Perhaps not as logical as Spock, but of enough poise and demeanor to recognize a bad deal and to capitalize on its rejection based an honest mid Western sense of justice and goodness. We've got too many Spocks on the court already. Always about precedent or some arcane logic which only has internal bearing and little relation to you and I walking up the street. I'm not a card carrying freak of Star Trek, but at least any application of the Prime Directive would be benign enough for those of us not able to understand the warped drive of the court.
Perhaps the world is too full of stupid people.
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