They may just look nondescriptly unique and innovative to
the uninitiated, but did First Lady Michelle Obama and daughters Sasha and
Malia wore Star Trek inspired fashions during the 2013 Presidential
Inauguration?
By: Ringo Bones
According to fashionistas who have logged on some Trekkie
and Trekker time, First Lady Michelle Obama’s outfit that she wore during the
2013 Presidential Inauguration during that rather chilly day back in January
21, 2013 was said to be “inspired” by both Vulcan and Romulan formal diplomatic
wear used in Star Trek – a classic science fiction TV series first created by
the late, great Gene Roddenberry during the 1960s that has since diverged into spinoffs
with his blessing. The First Daughters Sasha and Malia were also wearing
dresses that look suspiciously Star trek –inspired from the vantage-point of
the world’s Trekkie and Trekker communities.
But most hard-core Trekkies and Trekkers (Star Trek fans)
were not surprised by the rather Star Trek flavored fashion sense of First Lady
Michelle Obama and her daughters since back in February 2012, U.S. President
Barack Obama officially declared that he was a Trekkie too when one of the cast
of the original Star trek series, Nichelle Nichols who played Lieutenant Uhura
in the original 1960s era Star Trek, was invited by President Obama to the
White House for a personal official tour. Did President Obama’s Trek-based
“presidential powers” now extend to his family’s Trek-inspired fashion sense?
