INDIAN TRAIL, N.C. - Call it boldly going where no politician has gone before.

On Thursday, David Waddell used the Klingon language to write his letter of resignation from a town council in North Carolina.

Waddell says he chose to use Klingon, the language of a warrior race in the "Star Trek" TV shows and movies, as an inside joke. Mayor Michael Alvarez calls the letter unprofessional.

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Waddell says he is resigning at the end of this month. His four-year term expires in December 2015.

Waddell says he needs to devote time to mounting a write-in campaign on the Constitution Party's platform against U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan.