You know you're a Star Trek nerd when...

For me it was when Yeoman Randi told me I was a much bigger Trekkie than she is... and she has a Trek arrowhead tattooed on her shoulder!

 

A friend and I debated which captain was the "best" for an hour (Picard of course ). When we realized how long the conversation went, we both knew we were nerds.

 

I know I'm a Star Trek nerd when...

when I post in threads like this.

 

...when a car cuts you off in traffic and you yell out "Red alert! Shields up!"

 

I say Fascinating a lot. I probably got that from Spock.

 

I was going to say that.

 

I say Intriguing a lot too, but I thought Intriguing was more of a Data staple.

 

When your friends are discussing an episode they can vaguely remember and you blurt out the name of the episode.

 

^That!

 

Yeah, I've had this realization mostly when I've found myself discussing specific characters or episodes for hours on end with people. And the fact that I spend time on a board like this, posting in threads like this (lol). And the fact that, in my living room, I have a life sized cardboard cutout of Spock and a bunch of ST action figures on all the shelves. And I'm attempting to actually learn some Klingon (my excuse for this, to "normal" people, is that I'm a translator and went to college for foreign languages, so I have an interest in languages for that reason).

 

When you equate sitting in the driver's seat of your car to sitting in the command chair of a starship.

--Sran

 

Nah, you're just the helmsman.

 

^And when you give other riders designations like navigations lab, communications, and security officer.

 

About the driving again:
That happened when I was sitting to the right of the unexpirienced driver (very unexperienced) with GPS navigator and found myself reporting him ETA to highway exits and collision alerts (and not joking, that trucks were really close), imitating bridge officers from the series.

 

When you argue for thirty years that Bob Wesley from "The Ultimate Computer" is not the regular captain of the Lexington.

 

Discussing events of a Trek episode during activity.

 

When I discovered the intriguing world of Trek rpgs in the old school aol chat rooms.