You Know You're a Trekkie When...

[justTripn]

You know you're a trekkie when . . .

I pushed the buttons "B" "4" to get my Coke from the vending machine and thought of Data's twin.

[Asso]

[TPoptarts]

You know you're a Trekkie when...

...you refer to using the restroom as "purging the plasma manifold".

[Alelou]

That makes me wonder why we never heard Trip mention purging the organic waste conduits...

[justTripn]

He did refer to it, at least obliquely, in that episode where they were talking to school children? Remember they wanted to know how the toilets work?

[Alelou]

Yeah, I know, and it was a big joke. I just mean that whenever they need to throw some official sounding technobabble problem/plot excuse in, it never occurs to them to simply hit on the ship's more mundane plumbing... It's always plasma relays and EPS conduits! Never stopped-up toilets. Surely there had to have been considerable post-Azati Prime sewage issues...

[Asso]

Titus Flavius Vespasianus agrees with you.

[Pitseleh]

You know you're a Trekkie when... your physics professor is trying to explain a concept to the class and he goes: "Did any of you guys ever watch Star Trek? Do you remember what the engine ran on?" And you say, "You mean Dilithium or anti-matter?"

[Asso]

[Alelou]

I had a physics professor who put all his exam questions in Battlestar Galactica terms. (The original series, not this one.) I LOVED that class.

[Aquarius]

Back in the stone age when I took psych 101 in college, we had a really cool professor and she'd work all these Star Trek jokes into her lectures. One time we were discussing the "something-something loci" (told you it was a long time ago--I don't remember the full name of the concept), and after she said "loci" she said, "And no, I don't mean one of the half-black/half-white guys on Star Trek." (Loki)

I was the only one who laughed in the entire lecture hall.

And I did it loudly.

Got a laugh from the prof, but a whole bunch of weird stares from everyone else.

[Alelou]

And aren't you thankful for the Internet now? Even if people do stare weirdly at you, you don't see it.

[Aquarius]

I still know they're doing it!

[evcake]

You know you're a Trekkie when...
You notice the air-conditioning unit on top of the Monorail ticket booth is shaped exactly like a shuttlepod. Really.

[TPoptarts]

Picture!! PLEASE