The Geek in Me Can Not Be Stilled

[meirwen_1988]

Saw the Star Trek trailer. Okay--the machinery is all too shiny and pretty. Too plexiglass. Not enough "1940s aircraft carrier" and waaay too much circa 2008 ops room. But, well, I'm prepared to accept this "young Spock" and, well...I'm too much of a total Star Trek geek not to be overjoyed. SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(How big a geek am I? Back when rocks were soft, before DVDs, before VHS, I put my cassette recorder in front of the speaker on the television and made audio tapes of EVERY SINGLE EPISODE of the original series, put the titles of the individual episodes on the tapes, numbered them (in the order originally aired), and listened to them. Repeatedly. They got me through my BA. That, and reading The Lord of the Rings twice a year. We won't talk about the posters. Framed. Or that model kit. Or the embroidered patches. Or the Enterprise necklace. I'm that big a geek. I guess the secret's out.)

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[ariannawyn.livejournal.com]

Geeks, all of us. And children of geeks. It was the ONE show my mother let us watch during dinner. Otherwise, the TV was OFF while we ate.

And I got to serve George Takei breakfast at the dining hall when he visited Fredonia. He was very gracious. :-)

[meirwen.livejournal.com]

Wasn't he wonderful. I was working at WCVF then, and I was one of the ones who got to interview him.

And yeah--children of geeks. I vividly remember watching the first episode with my parents. We were blown away. When it was over Daddy said, "Okay, that's one for this year." It was back in the day when we eagerly picked up the new season TV Guide, looked through and planned what we would watch during premier week, then watched our picks and gave them a thumbs up or down (very democratic TV house). That would set the TV viewing schedule for the year.

I kinda miss that.