Hear that? The inane chirping? That means its quadrennial celebrity cicada season again. Every four years some of the great, the near great and the not great (yet all unquestionably ingrates) from the entertainment world emerge to threaten to deprive us of their presence if we vote incorrectly.
The latest, according to the website Trekmovie.com via The Irish Times, is Kate Mulgrew, who played Capt Katherine Janeway in Star Trek: Voyager. She is unhappy with President Trump’s coronavirus response. But unlike her less imaginative peers, she’s not just hopping the border into Canada. She’s hoofing it for the Auld Sod.
According to The Irish Times, Mulgrew is from an “‘unconventional Irish American family’ and has always had a strong affinity with Ireland.” Luck of the Irish, huh?
Mulgrew told Trekmovie, “If Trump gets four more years, I am promising you, I will leave the country. And I will go and live in Ireland. There are very wise people over there. They get it.”
Hardly the response you’d expect from Capt. Janeway, who presumably overcame the hidebound patriarchy of the Federation and faced down her share of Klingons to earn an interview with Trekmovie. But don’t worry. She hasn’t given up yet. “We have a future to think about here. I have a granddaughter coming in October and I’ll be good and damned if she’s going to walk into this thing, if I haven’t done something. I’ve been out stumping for my native state of Iowa, we’ve got to flip those seats.”
There’s that Star Fleet feistiness! If Iowa doesn’t turn blue, she’s for the wearing o’ the green. Decisive, Captain!
Mulgrew won’t be the last celeb to threaten to expatriate if Trump wins in November. But hopefully, she’s the last one to select Ireland as her destination. The poor country has already had its share of blights.
