treky and proud...sort of
My girlfriend elizabeth has gotten into the habit on tuesdays and thursdays to watch an episode of star trek inbetween two of her classes in the afternoon. However, she tells me she is worried about her roomate walking in on her while she is doing this, as if she would be completely and totally embarrased if this happened. This reminded me of the fact that she makes fun of me calling me a closet treky. I love star trek. I grew up on it. I have an ungodly amount of knowledge about star trek. And I have just come to a new realization. I SHOULD NOT BE ASHAMED. I know what a ferangi is. I know that Captain Picard has a brother back on earth who he doesn't get along with well because he is a farmer and Picard is a star ship captain. I know that "Q" isn't just a letter. I know the names of all the actors. Don't believe me?: patrick stewart, brent spiner, jonathan frakes, michael dorn, levar burton (he's the best cause he's on reading rainbow), marina spirits, gates macfaden. And all of this is OK.....maybe...so there I have anounced it to everyone. I LIKE STAR TREK AND AM NO LONGER ASHAMED....ok I'm still ashamed..........very ashame. But come on I know that everyone of you has some oddity to you and that makes me feel better about myself and my nerdyness....
posted by Mikethelawstudent @ 2:53 PM
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Mike, you socially inept freak! You liike Star Trek? LAME! I don't know if we can be friends any longer, because i am completely cool and far above having any weird quirks about me.
But seriously, if only more of us could embrace the things we truly enjoy. The problem with American youth (those under thirty, we'll say. Not that you're old if you're 31) is that they don't having anything that makes them different from all the rest. We're all a bunch of homogenous, brain-washed, mtv-watching, rap-listening, ignorant, livestock, who have bought in to the lie that star trek is "uncool." To hell with cool! I am not cool! Ok? I read....for fun! How do you like that mtv? Do you want to put me on The Real World?
(Enough of the rant, I had a funny thought just now. Here it is.) Think if mtv did an intellectuals real world. John the modernist would be insulting Susan's taste in poetry; and Frank would be quoting Freud to everyone as he pranced about in his underwear every morning. Sherri would quote essays by Virginia Woolf to all the men. Then you'd have the guy off in the corner reading Finnegan's Wake for the entire show. It would be amazing.
Ok, we are working that into our ever developing sitcom doug, cause that just has endless comedic possibilities.
telling on me huh?
:) oh well, i might as well embrace my nerdy-ness as well. But you did not get caught in DAH building talking about the clingons and ferengis.... lol, that was a funny situation...anyway. great blog, it made me laugh, but you are so much more of a closet trekky than me... you and joey win at that one... but i miss that.
BTW~
purely eloquent doug! well put! ... i read for fun too.
See? I am perfectly content with embracing things i truly enjoy. :)
Ah.. I have been corrected by the King Trekky.
apparently it is spelled "klingon".
WOW... yes, that is a sassy wow.
:) in the most endearing way possible ..of course!
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