You Know You're a Trekkie When...

[Linda]

When I admit I am a Trekkie I get comments like "I used to watch that as I kid, but I outgrew it." And no amount of explaining that ST has depth and social criticism will stop them laughing and reevaluating me as a geek and dismissing me as a bit on the dim side.

[Elessar]

I'd stab them in the eye with a soldering iron. Tell em, "Now, SEE! WISH YOU HAD SOME DEPTH AND SOCIAL CRITICISM NOW DON'TCHA! DONCHA!?" mauh.. see? Myeah.

[Elessar]

I say to my friend, in the presence of our kids, "When I was at the Star Trek conference, . . . " and everyone in the room bursts out laughing. I go, "What?"

She explains, "You're the only one I know who could say that with a straight face."

Everyone agrees.

Oh, dear . . .

Screw them!

[Linda]

Well, we could maybe give these scoffers to the Borg? I like that idea. But maybe the Borg might reject them as in a Strange New World 10 story where the Borg rejected the Pakleds. Hey, non-wizards in the Harry Potter world are called muggles. Maybe non-trekkies could be called Pakleds?

[CX]

I say to my friend, in the presence of our kids, "When I was at the Star Trek conference, . . . " and everyone in the room bursts out laughing. I go, "What?"

She explains, "You're the only one I know who could say that with a straight face."

Everyone agrees.

Oh, dear . . .

I hate people like that. Usually I just respond by asking them, "what? Too imaginative for your brain to comprehend?" But then I'm an asshole and I just hate people like that.

[Emberchyld]

Yes, I like the odd looks I get from the Pakleds sometimes. Favorite thing I hear all the time, "You don't look like a Trekkie."

What are we supposed to look like? Deformed? Klingon ridges tatooed to our foreheads? Seriously

I was being teased about the convention at happy hour after work, but one of my coworkers was converted when I whipped out my ipod and pulled up the decontamination scene from "Broken Bow" (took me a minute as the guffawed over me having Trek on my ipod, buuuut then I handed it to her and her jaw dropped "Oooh, I LIKE this Star Trek.")

Then one of the other guys outed himself as he looked over her shoulder and said, "I've always liked that T'Pol!" Then, he made a face and looked over at me as if to say "Don't tell the others"

[Distracted]

It's kind of a shame when you have to pull out the near-porn to interest the unwashed masses, though. Whatever happened to THINKING while you watch TV?

[evcake]

TV's not supposed to make you think - it's supposed to make you buy stuff.

Re Trek, I'm still pretty closety. A friend of mine saw the words for one of the poetry challenges sitting nest to my laptop and comented that those were intersting words. I just got an eyeroll when I explained.

[Emberchyld]

It's kind of a shame when you have to pull out the near-porn to interest the unwashed masses, though. Whatever happened to THINKING while you watch TV?

Sad, but it has that instant shock effect that today's reality tv-addled brains can comprehend.

(I happily converted my sister over, however, with Similitude. Yay thoughtful episode!)

[JadziaKathryn]

I'd stab them in the eye with a soldering iron. Tell em, "Now, SEE! WISH YOU HAD SOME DEPTH AND SOCIAL CRITICISM NOW DON'TCHA! DONCHA!?"

So people worried about that picture of you with the knife need fear only if they aren't Trekkies?

Here're my new additions:
...you get excited because your crossword puzzle has a five-letter word for "member of the United Federation of Planets" (Earth) (yes, crossword puzzles and Star Trek - I'm all kinds of geeky)
...your member name for the New York Times online is the same as your Trek-inspired pen name

[Reanok]

I've had similar experiences when I've been to book stores and the clerks making comments about the StarTrek books I like to buy.. I remember one woman saying Oh you're one of those trekkies who likes that stupid tv show and read the books. They aren't any good. I paid for the books I had and didn't say anything to her. I really got annoyed about that she was so rude. She didn't last long as a clerk at that bookstore. Customers complained about how rude she was.

[TSara]

^
I would have been rude right back and told her. "Is it any of your concern what I read? No! So sell me the damn book AND mind your own effing business."

People may find me weird for liking star trek...whatever.

These same people LOVE reality shows while I find some of the reality shows to be a waste of time. Why would I want to watch reality? When I live it every day?

So I think in that regard we are even.

[evcake]

I say go with the soldering iron. Sheesh!

[justTripn]

During the question and answer session at the conference, an audience member reported to Leonard Nimoy that "My dad doesn't really like Star Trek."

Nimoy stops him. "Doesn't like Star Trek! Well, what does he like to watch, then?"

"Mostly sports"

"Well, tell him to . . . GET A LIFE!" (The crowd goes wild.)

Yeah, it was one of the high points of the con. He, he . . .

[dark_rain]

I say go with the soldering iron. Sheesh!

I have a gas soldering iron. But I think that pulling the tip off and igniting the gas, resulting in a 1300DegC gas blowtorch would work better!