Here’s a trivia question: What does Barack Obama have in common with Star Trek: Voyager? Other than the fact that Obama sort of looks like Lt. Commander Tuvok, the answer is actress Jeri Ryan, who played the hot Borg babe, Seven of Nine.

 

Jeri Ryan was married to Jack Ryan, an Illinois Republican. In 2004, Jack Ryan was cruising right along in his U.S. Senate campaign for an open seat vacated by retiring GOP Sen. Peter Fitzgerald.

 

Only months before the election, though, Ryan was muscled out of the race by party leaders after court papers from Jack and Jeri’s divorce were unsealed. In them, the object of many a Trekker’s libidinous eye claimed that her ex-husband took her to sex clubs, where he urged her to engage in sexual acts in front of other patrons. Set phasers to boom-chicka-wah-wah!

 

The Republican Party replaced Ryan with former ambassador and conservative commentator Alan Keyes, who was soundly drummed that fall by a guy named Barack Obama. Who needs Obama Girl to get to the White House when there’s Jeri Ryan?