Random Trek fan encounters

[Pensive]

Today I wore my Starfleet Academy t-shirt while running some errands. During my oil change, one technician said he loved my shirt, and I told him I bought it in Vegas last month. We had a casual Trek conversation, and he informed me that his girlfriend has to restrain his addiction to buying Trek movies and gear.

Next, while at the post office, the postal worker noticed my shirt and also complimented it. I didn't have much time to chat with him due to the queue of people behind me, but we did talk favorably about Las Vegas and Trek in general.

Where are some random places you have encountered Trek fans?

 

[Fatemo]

I was in an airport in Detroit and saw someone posting on this board from the computer cubicles.

 

[BarryWaddle]

I have a First Contact/DS9/VGR-style commbadge pin on my denim jacket and people comment on it regularly. A distant relative wants to combine it with cell phone technology and make it an actual working commbadge...He's a little eccentric...

 

[Zeo Ranger IX]

One of my professors in grad school had an Enterprise-D mousepad. Started talking and I found out her cat was named Spock.

 

[sbk1234]

I was wearing my First contact era uniform at work for Halloween one year. That's when the plant manager told me he was a big fan, as well as the assistant principal at the time.
From then on, my room has been well taken care of.

 

[Joshua Howard]

While working at a local retailer I encountered a newly hired cart-pusher who I happened to be outside with on a certain occasion. He had some personal problems that he was sharing with me, and during the course of our conversation Star Trek came up - He actually went to great lengths telling me of how he had been inspired by the Vulcan value of logic in his own personal life to overcome reclusiveness and depression; it was an inspiration to hear him, and we wound up having a rather lengthy Star Trek discussion following.

 

[JiNX-01]

I was in the student union at college watching Star Trek on television during a break between classes. By the time the episode was over, there were some 30 or so people sitting or standing with me.

 

[Wonderlust King]

at a wedding i mentioned trek, and as it turns out a cousin of mine has been a closet trekkie for years.

 

[Luckyflux]

I was at a concert many years ago, and I was trippin pretty hard. I was walking around and bumped into some dude wearing a t-shirt with Data on it. I thought it was the coolest shirt I had ever seen.

Then my (ex-)girlfriend bought me a TNG watch with the Enterprise-D on it, I would wear it to work and people would ask me "Is that a Star Trek watch?" and my simple response everytime was "It's the Enterprise baby!"

 

[Lindley]

I was in a Barnes & Noble in Framingham, MA a couple of weeks ago, and as I passed the customer service counter I overheard someone say, "He reprogrammed the simulator. That's how he beat the Kobayashi Maru."

 

[Dancing Doctor]

I actually just found out about my English teacher being a Trekkie. We got into this really awesome discussion about the various series and episodes. We lost track of time and looked at the clock and discovered I was 20 minutes late to my next class.

 

[Anthony Sabre]

Guy in the cubicle across from mine sits down one day and powers on his laptop. For his background he has the Voyager Borg theme. I haven't talked to him about Trek yet. I'm kinda leery about starting conversations with VOY fans. We typically don't see eye to eye.

 

[RAMA]

Starfleet Academy shirts and bumper stickers seem to be ubiquitous in the US! I see them all the time. People who have the bumper stickers seem to drive slowly though. What's up with that?

RAMA

 

[An Officer]

I have never seen anyone with anything trek related outside of a convention in the U.K.

 

[Tom Servo]

Not really trek, but I have a black sweatshirt with a white sillouette of the MST3K guys on it, just like they have when they watch a film. Whenever I wear it I either get someone asking, what is the logo, or I will have someone go, that shirt kicks ass! You either know it or you don't.

 

[BigC]

Starfleet Academy shirts and bumper stickers seem to be ubiquitous in the US! I see them all the time. People who have the bumper stickers seem to drive slowly though. What's up with that?

RAMA

You know how much gas is by the 24th century!

 

[Smellincoffee]

Back in January, I believe, I was headed up the stairs in the university office where I worked. I encountered one of my professors coming down the stairs, and he was carrying season three of the original series on DVD. Turns out he uses the DVDs in one of his political science classes.

The things you can get away with with tenure.

 

[Pensive]

I was in a Barnes & Noble in Framingham, MA a couple of weeks ago, and as I passed the customer service counter I overheard someone say, "He reprogrammed the simulator. That's how he beat the Kobayashi Maru."

for the win