That shit pisses me off cause I named my home machines after them and now I can’t do it cause I expect people to ask if I’m copying him ffs

Toicfadh ár lá mo chara

I also wonder this but would like to also add a caveat; has any world leader or politician been a trekkie?

Close on the values of trek (humanism) would certainly be the Irish president for me (Michael D. Higgins). Unfortunately though the Irish president doesn’t hold much legal power

Here, I mean more the reaction to it, I sometimes cringe at the pronunciation or intonation in the way one would to nails on a chalkboard (the idiom can have more than one meaning or reaction attached to it)

Americans have trouble with any accent that isn’t the blandest, nails on chalkboard accent.

Once had one ask me if I was speaking English when I spoke to him (for context I am Irish, the north bit)