Star Trek Conventions

[Thorin]

But doesnt our insanely large post counts bump up our nerd scores?

Goddamn it! I score miserably on the geek test and my post count is low

[Mikey]

Don't worry, Thorin - you're all geek to us.

[Sionnach Glic]

Should that be taken as a compliment?

[Thorin]

Should that be taken as a compliment?

I'm doing physics at uni.

Being called a nerd is a compliment.

[Sionnach Glic]

Then a nerd you shall be considered.

[Mark]

And henceforth our nerd fraternity shall be called "Lamda Lamda Lamda".......or has that been copywritten???

[Grundig]

I went to a convention when I was 12 or 13. There was a raffle, and we won an autographed headshot of Michael Dorn. We bought one for Brent Spiner too. Don't know what happened to them.

At the convention were LeVar Burton and John DeLancie. They did some Q&A stuff, and I got up the nerve to ask John DeLancie if he's "Got anymore devious plans for the Enterprise." I was really nervous but I got a good laugh.

There was a dude dressed in a Borg costume - which I thought was so cool that I made my own the next year for Halloween. I even skipped Physical Ed class because I couldn't take the thing off and put it in my locker.

It was really fun, but I felt pretty uncomfortable since everyone around me was older or weirder than I expected.

[Mark]

Had a group of three "Klingons" one year would ONLY speak Klingoneese and acted like nutjobs the ENTIRE weekend. Never a moment out of character. Even at the resturaunt at the hotel. The manager came and told them to settle down or they'd have to leave, they started "acting" up. So the manager tossed them. Funny as hell. This manager was like 5'8, MAYBE 150 lbs, and the smallest "Klingon" was like 6'1, maybe 220. He faced 'em down, let them get their food to go, and walked 'em out. Hilarious.

[Grundig]

Sounds like you found all the 'good' conventions.

I kinda think it is a money making scheme. Then again, your stories make me kinda want to go to one.

[Mark]

Sounds like you found all the 'good' conventions.

I kinda think it is a money making scheme. Then again, your stories make me kinda want to go to one.

Of course they are money making schemes. But that's ok too

I have to admit that most of my convention stories were the large ones, mostly in Las Vegas or Los Angeles and took place while the show was still on the air. I went to one out here in Hawaii that was just awful. They couldn't get anyone besides Grace Lee Whitney (Janice Rand) and Herbert Jefferson Jr (Origianal Battlestar Galactica). Had VERY limited merchandise and just wasn't put together very well.

But others were just awsome. At one in LA, had a mock battle break out in the middle of the convention area between a group of "Klingons" and another group of "Borg". Wasn't planned. Just conventioneers having fun.

[Tsukiyumi]

But doesnt our insanely large post counts bump up our nerd scores?

Goddamn it! I score miserably on the geek test and my post count is low

You're just too cool for school, Thorin. Too cool for school indeed.