Chicago enlists Capt. Kirk in HQ2 bid
Thursday, Oct 26, 2017 - Posted by Rich Miller
* Tribune…
Captain James T. Kirk has been added to the bridge of Chicago’s all-hands-on-deck bid to try to woo Amazon to build its second headquarters here, say aldermen who saw the city’s pitch video.
On Wednesday morning, City Council committee chairmen and other aldermen whose wards include potential sites for Amazon’s HQ2 were treated to a private screening of the presentation that city officials will make to the company.
William Shatner, the hammy actor who played the confident, daring Starfleet captain in the original “Star Trek” TV series and movies, does the narration. That’s an attempt to curry favor with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who’s a rabid fan of the franchise and even appeared as a heavily made-up alien in last year’s “Star Trek: Beyond.”
Mayoral spokesman Grant Klinzman said the city economic development agency World Business Chicago is picking up the tab for the presentation. He declined to discuss how much Shatner was paid for the voice work, or other costs of the presentation.
Unfortunately, the video is still under wraps. I’ll post it if it ever surfaces.
- Michelle Flaherty - Thursday, Oct 26, 17 @ 9:42 am:
Logical.
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Oct 26, 17 @ 9:52 am:
William Shatner is scheduled to be on “Dad’s Home State” working with the main character “Bruce” on new costume ideas to boost the popularity of “Bruce”.
It’s a light episode.
- wordslinger - Thursday, Oct 26, 17 @ 9:53 am:
Set phasers to “fun.”
Hopefully, he doesn’t do “Mr. Tambourine Man,” “Rocket Man,” “Bohemian Rhapsody,” or any of his other hits.
Links not posted to for fear of a lifetime ban.
- ughhh - Thursday, Oct 26, 17 @ 9:53 am:
Chicago is really Kling-ing-on to Amazon HQ2 hopes, huh?
PS. I’m here all week..
- 47th Ward - Thursday, Oct 26, 17 @ 9:53 am:
Set phasers to stun.
- 47th Ward - Thursday, Oct 26, 17 @ 9:54 am:
Dang it Word.
- Swift - Thursday, Oct 26, 17 @ 10:11 am:
Good thing Bezos is not a fan of the Godfather franchise, that’s more up Rahm’s alley.
- Montrose - Thursday, Oct 26, 17 @ 10:13 am:
They boldly went to where no promotional video has gone before.
- Ghost - Thursday, Oct 26, 17 @ 10:13 am:
Clever. Know your audience. +1
- A guy - Thursday, Oct 26, 17 @ 10:19 am:
===Links not posted to for fear of a lifetime ban.==
Don’t tease.
- Chicago 20 - Thursday, Oct 26, 17 @ 10:34 am:
Live long and proper.
- Northsider - Thursday, Oct 26, 17 @ 10:49 am:
Nice, subtle touch, that.
Question of the Day suggestion: Adapting McCoy’s “I’m a doctor, not a X” to Illinois, what would Madigan’s or Rauner’s version be?
- Six Degrees of Separation - Thursday, Oct 26, 17 @ 11:08 am:
The lede threw me, I thought Mark Kirk was leading the charge. “We are a bro with no HQ”.
- SammyG - Thursday, Oct 26, 17 @ 11:09 am:
“Dammit Jim, I’m a rich kid from Wilmette, not a leader”
- AC - Thursday, Oct 26, 17 @ 11:58 am:
I don’t know why, but this just seems like the right time to post this:
https://youtu.be/KXWEM4gZhg4
- G'Kar - Thursday, Oct 26, 17 @ 12:21 pm:
“Beam Amazon up, Scotty.”
- Generic Drone - Thursday, Oct 26, 17 @ 1:54 pm:
Throw in some Romulan ale and it’s a done deal.
- Shytown - Thursday, Oct 26, 17 @ 2:47 pm:
Genius
- Often Blocked by Rich - Thursday, Oct 26, 17 @ 3:02 pm:
I wish them the best in their “Enterprise”.
- Arthur Andersen - Thursday, Oct 26, 17 @ 3:40 pm:
Unfortunately, when Rahm ordered his team to “get a $&@#%+% little Enterprise” for the big day, meaning a classy scale model, they returned with a Mitsubishi Mirage from Enterprise Rentacar.
- Deni - Thursday, Oct 26, 17 @ 5:03 pm:
So much for the confidential screening………
- cc - Friday, Oct 27, 17 @ 3:56 am:
We have pocket gophers and chipmunks but no tribbles.