Pop-culture references fall a bit flat if you don't get them. Like 'I think we need a bigger boat'. Lost on so many people who actually have lives and stuff.... [grin]
Spike TV was fun. I used to have a video file on my computer where this guy was going around to houses in a neighborhood and asking them to sign a petition against airing so much Star Trek -- at the time all four of the then-existing shows were running. Things went poorly when one woman couldn't understand him and called up her son, a big fella in a Klingon outfit who threw him around yelling in Klingonese...
I used to be a fundamentalist Trekkie, obstinately declaring that you had to "be" for one or the other. One of my closest friends in high school was, oddly enough, a guy I only knew online -- a weird doppelganger whose chief fault was that he was CRAZY about Star Wars. Eventually I tried A New Hope and...well, by the time Revenge of the Sith came out, I purchased it outright without bothering to rent. I knew I'd like it, and that's when I knew I'd gone to the dark side. I don't like Trek any less because of it (I like Trek a little less because I'm more aware of the technobabble now), though.
I wouldn't call myself a fundi-Trekkie but I was always a big fan. ST:OS had a big impact on my childhood. I never really caught the Star Wars vibe. Not sure why. Maybe it was a bit too mystical for my liking. Dunno really.... [muses]
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as in "a boy named sue"? oh... no, as in anakin... i'm slow but sometimes i get it...
Pop-culture references fall a bit flat if you don't get them. Like 'I think we need a bigger boat'. Lost on so many people who actually have lives and stuff.... [grin]
Spike TV was fun. I used to have a video file on my computer where this guy was going around to houses in a neighborhood and asking them to sign a petition against airing so much Star Trek -- at the time all four of the then-existing shows were running. Things went poorly when one woman couldn't understand him and called up her son, a big fella in a Klingon outfit who threw him around yelling in Klingonese...
It used to be one of *the* defining questions you asked someone:
Star Trek or Star Wars....... A LOT could depend on that answer [lol]
I used to be a fundamentalist Trekkie, obstinately declaring that you had to "be" for one or the other. One of my closest friends in high school was, oddly enough, a guy I only knew online -- a weird doppelganger whose chief fault was that he was CRAZY about Star Wars. Eventually I tried A New Hope and...well, by the time Revenge of the Sith came out, I purchased it outright without bothering to rent. I knew I'd like it, and that's when I knew I'd gone to the dark side. I don't like Trek any less because of it (I like Trek a little less because I'm more aware of the technobabble now), though.
I wouldn't call myself a fundi-Trekkie but I was always a big fan. ST:OS had a big impact on my childhood. I never really caught the Star Wars vibe. Not sure why. Maybe it was a bit too mystical for my liking. Dunno really.... [muses]
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