Star Trek Education and Personality

Well, it is interesting how some stories and ideas in life seem to come together in the most obsure and rather arcane or occult ways. I was listening to NPR's Talk of the Nation - Science Friday yesterday and one of the guests was bemoaning the lack of science education in America and the lack of anyone with any intestinal fortitude to do anything about it politically. The question was then asked if there was something that the media could do to help. The guest laughed and said that the best show to inspire young people to want to go into science was Star Trek! Yup. And to think that I grew up on watching Star Trek then became a scientist.... go figure. Today I was reading the Bad Astronomy Blog and came across the "Star Trek Personality Quiz". This is where I ended up:

Your results:
You are Will Riker

Will Riker 95% Deanna Troi 90% Spock 82% An Expendable Character (Redshirt) 80% Mr. Scott 80% James T. Kirk (Captain) 75% Mr. Sulu 75% Data 68% Leonard McCoy (Bones) 65% Jean-Luc Picard 60% Chekov 60% Geordi LaForge 55% Uhura 50% Worf 50% Beverly Crusher 40%

At times you are self-centered but you have many friends. You love many women, but the right woman could get you to settle down.

Click here to take the Star Trek Personality Quiz