My uncle, his Trekness

[kinkme]

I would kill or die for a new Star Trek series. I've been stuck in TOS for so long, the episode of TNG I just watched seemed disturbingly scientific.

Anyway, real reason for this post: In search of my Fire Red game (desperate to fill the Sinnoh side of my pokedex - I have 196 on the Nat. Dex and 140/151 on the Kanto Dex - which will be 144 when I

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[fairhearing]

... your uncle is younger than I am.

This is disliked.

TRUFACTS, I went to an Actual Star Trek Convention when I was 8. :(

[kinkme]

WERE YOU A FAN IN THE TIMES BEFORE THE INTERNETS?

*rests chin on hands and looks up from carpet where you are seated on a rocking chair next to a fireplace*

[_samalander]

SHUSH YOU. There was a phone number, like 1800trekker or something that you could call and get a catalogue of Star Trek things. I had a phone shaped like the Enterprise from it.

[kinkme]

AHHHH, THE NOSTALGIA.

[_samalander]

KINK. THIS IS A PICTURE FROM 1996ISH. IT IS THE WALL OF MY BEDROOM AT MY PARENT'S HOUSE. THINK ABOUT THAT.

[kinkme]

*inhales*

NEERRRRRRDDDDD

eh, who am I kidding, I bought a TNG-style badge when I was six off ebay.

[_samalander]

YOU HAD EBAY WHEN YOU WERE SIX? WHEN I WAS SIX I WAS PAYING FOR AOL BY THE HOUR. *crumbles to dust*

[_samalander]

Her uncle is the same age as me. AGREED.

I went to conventions in grade/middle school. I met Robert Picardo and collected TNG cards. ♥

[kinkme]

I met Robert Picardo

If I met Robert Picardo, I would still be attached to Robert Picardo. You. Are. A. Lucky. Person.

[_samalander]

Um, he was awesome. I was in line for an autograph, but they set up TVs so we could watch the Q&A. I was 12 or so. So it was... 1996? 1997? Early in Voyager, because someone asked, "When is the Doctor going to push Neelix out an airlock and go for Kes?" I wish I could remember what the answer was, but he was damn funny.

[kinkme]

*hands to face* *intake of breath*

omg that sounds so excellent.

But EMH/Seven ftw, I didn't believe that Chakotay bollocks for a second. I actually liked Neelix, but I was about nine, and also liked Wesley. My taste could not be trusted, clearly.

[_samalander]

The day I realized that Picardo is the guy in Gremlins 2 who gets trapped in the bathroom and molested byt the girl gremlin was a great day.

Also, this was before Seven. It was before the episode where they find Amelia Eirhart. I wish I could remember when it was.

And I liked Wesley, too.

[hsavinien]

I had a little bit of crush on Wesley when I was...oooh, ten, maybe? But Jake Sisko came along and was much cuter, so.