The former First Minister of Scotland ran into a problem when he tried to travel using the names James T. Kirk.<\/p>\n
Alex Salmond<\/strong> was trying to travel out of Heathrow when he was initially denied entry to his flight because the fake name didn’t match his real name on his passport.<\/p>\n Salmond uses a fake name for safety reasons and using Kirk’s name came naturally because Salmond is a fan of Star Trek<\/em>.<\/p>\n The former First Minister usually travels out of either Gatwick or London City airports, where staff is more familiar with his travel arrangements.<\/p>\n In spite of the initial problem, Salmond was able to make his flight. “It was all sorted out,” he said. “I just wanted BA [British Airways] to ‘Beam me up, Scotty!'”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The former First Minister of Scotland ran into a problem when he tried to travel…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2416],"tags":[8636,8637,2418,3183],"class_list":["post-41851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fandom","tag-british-airways","tag-heathrow","tag-kirk","tag-salmond"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/SalmondKirk100515.gif",580,225,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/SalmondKirk100515-150x150.gif",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/SalmondKirk100515.gif",580,225,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/SalmondKirk100515.gif",580,225,false],"large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/SalmondKirk100515.gif",580,225,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/SalmondKirk100515.gif",580,225,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/SalmondKirk100515.gif",580,225,false],"newsphere-slider-full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/SalmondKirk100515.gif",580,225,false],"newsphere-featured":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/SalmondKirk100515.gif",580,225,false],"newsphere-medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/SalmondKirk100515.gif",580,225,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"T'Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"Fandom<\/a>","tag_info":"Fandom","comment_count":"2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41851"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41854,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41851\/revisions\/41854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}