Shatter boldly goes on mission to Klingon to seat

A POLITICIAN is boldly going where no politician has gone before, stretching the limits of political credibility into a new dimension with a bizarre pastiche of camp sci-fi classic Star Trek.

Fine Gael’s Alan Shatter, who at the next general election will attempt to reclaim the Dáil seat he lost in 2002, has distributed a unique newsletter to voters in Dublin South.

On the cover of the four-page newsletter, which is apparently designed to resemble a glossy celebrity magazine, Mr Shatter is pictured in Star Trek uniform alongside a photograph of the original star of the TV series, William Shatner.