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 You Might Be Considered A Trekkie If... - 8/19/2004 11:50:12 AM   
NightDaughter


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After seeing a news story about a police shooting you wonder, for a moment, why they just didn't set it on stun.

All babies start to remind you of Jean-Luc Picard.

Deanna Troi can 'feel' your pain

More than three original episode outlines are buried in your drawers

Mr. Spock beamed down into your back yard last night and talked to you

Phrases like 'sentient being' start creeping into your speech patterns.

Sitting in traffic you seriously start wondering why you're using this primitive form of transportation.

Someone tells a joke and your only comment is: "Humour, a difficult concept"

The Outrageous Okona seems like a fine piece of writing and dramatic stylistics

The Star Trek theme becomes background music for your dreams

The UPS guy hands you his electronic clipboard and you're tempted to call him the "Captain's Yeoman" as you sign it.

When you get sick you want Doctor Beverley to take care of you

Whenever you start your car you take your right index finger and point it ahead of you saying "Engage"

You've attended a convention wearing non-Terran vestments

You've been paying rapt attention during those endless special effects sequences in Star Trek: The Motion Picture

You've figured out the stardate system

You've had actual serious thoughts about buying that $300 model of the Enterprise from the Franklin Mint

You've had experience playing fizzbin and understanding it

You've lectured any science professor on how transporters work

You've memorized the crew's authorization codes

You already know the name of every episode of season one of Star Trek: Voyager

You always win the free slice of pizza at the local pizza place when they have Star Trek trivia questions.

You answer your cellular flip-phone "Kirk here"

You are able to use "variable phase inverter" in a sentence without excessive thought first

You ask your broken computer to run a self-diagnostic

You avoid all stores that carry Trek merchandise for fear that someone will find out about your 'addiction'. :-)

You breed Tribbles

You call your Psychic friends to talk to Mr. Spock

You can name all 79 episodes of classic Trek--in order

You can name, alphabetically, all the women Kirk seduced

You can quote all of the Articles of the Federation

You can trace your genealogy back to Surak

You cannot use contractions in your speech

You drive by a used car lot and start looking for Ferengi

You experience indignation because the periodic table doesn't include dilithium and tritanium.

You find yourself executing the "Picard Maneuver".

You find yourself singing "Headin' Out to Eden" in the shower and you know all the words.

You flip open your cellular phone and expect to hear it "chirp."

You fly into a homicidal rage anytime people say "Star Trek? Isn't that the one with Luke Skywalker?"

You get on an elevator full of people and have to catch yourself before you tell it what floor you want.

You get upset when apply for a vanity license plate, and find that WRP SPD, BEAM ME, TREKKR, MKIT SO, and ENGAGE have already been taken.

You have a copy of every Star Trek uniform shown on TV or in the movies

You have a matter / anti-matter converter in your bathroom

You have a shrine to Gene Roddenberry in your spare room

You have a sudden urge to wear lots of Lycra

You have inexplicable rock-climbing urges

You have more than one pair of Spock ears in an old junk drawer

You have no life.

You have seen Star Trek The Motion Picture over 100 times

You hire a private detective because you KNOW Guinan is here somewhere

You join NASA, hijack a shuttle, and head for the coordinates you calculated for the planet Vulcan.

You keep asking Scotty to 'beam you up'

You keep forgetting that present-day elevators don't have a voice interface

You know every word of Star Trek IV by heart

You know the difference between "Live Long and Prosper" and "Nanu, Nanu"

You know Yeoman Rand's cabin number

You know you watch too much Trek when someone asks you to quote some Shakespeare and you do it in Klingon.

You make annual pilgrimages to the Paramount lot

You name your cat Spot and feed it feline supplement #74

You named your first child Leonard William DeForest

You named your second child Tiberius

You pull the legs off your hamster so you'll have a tribble.

You quote the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition

You recognize more than 4 references on this list.

You redecorate your living room to look like the bridge of the Enterprise

You replace your Windows Program Manager font with “TNG Monitors”

You save up money to send your kids to Starfleet Academy

You scare your little brother by acting like a Gorn

You see a car with a Starfleet Academy sticker and it seems perfectly normal.

You send weekly love letters to the actress who played the Green Skinned Orion Slave Girl in episode number 7.

You shave your head to look like Captain Picard

You sing along with William Shatner's record album

You sing Klingon Opera while showering

You spend $150.00 at a convention on a piece of plastic that may or may not look like a phaser

You spend the weekend decorating your friend's van to look like a shuttlecraft instead of going on a date with the Homecoming Queen

You stand in line for 13 hours to get Gene Roddenberry's autograph

You start making lists of the signs that you've been watching too much Trek!

You start practicing raising one eyebrow in front of a mirror.

You start saying "make it so" in casual conversation

You start scanning shelves at local liquor store for synthehol

You start watching commercials because so many Trek alumni are doing the voice-overs.

You talk to your computer (Hello, computer!)

You talk... like... William Shatner --- on purpose

You tried to join the Navy just so you could serve aboard the Enterprise.

You trim your angora cat's hair to make it look like a tribble

You understand Klingon

You use stardates on all your correspondence

You walk to the microwave and start to order dinner.

You want to have Worf's baby

You went to San Francisco to see if you might bump into Kirk and crew while they were in the 20th century looking for a whale.

You write love letters to Lursa and B’Etor

Your college thesis was a Comparison of the Illustrious Careers of T.J. Hooker and Capt. Kirk.

Your dream date is with Deanna Troi

Your idea of a great evening is spouting Trek trivia for six hours with your friends

Your major quote sources for your thesis are Shakespeare, the Bible, and "The Omega Glory"

Your wardrobe consists of a lot of black slacks with interchangeable gold, red and blue tops.

Your wife left you because you wanted her to dress like a Klingon and torture you for information.

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