You know you're a Trekkie(er) when...

[RAMA]

In my case this is a companion post to "the last episode you watched" thread. But feel free to add your own, "above and beyond" fan realization moment.

So you know you're a Trekkie (still) when you haven't watched an episode in a week or two, and it seems like a loooong time. I've gone much longer than this, but for some reason that went through my mind today.

RAMA

 

[Spot261]

When you declare warp factors when changing gear in your starship, ahem, car

 

[RAMA]

When you declare warp factors when changing gear in your starship, ahem, car

Do you make the whoosh sound?

 

[Spot261]

Sometimes....

 

[1001001]

Whenever you get into an elevator, you say out loud "Main Bridge!"

 

[Kor]

When things are going lousy, and you wish you could say "Computer, end program" and have it actually work.

Kor

 

[C.E. Evans]

When you can recall at least two "No money in the Federation?" threads at Trekbbs within the last six months...

 

[Shalashaska]

When your computer system is controlled by three primary main processing cores cross linked with a redundant melacortz ramistat and fourteen kiloquad interface modules. The core elements are based on FTL nanoprocessor units arranged into twenty-five bilateral kelilactirals with twenty of those units being slaved to the central heisenfram terminal.

It makes perfect sense really.

 

[Levi]

When you have your phone set to StarTrek communication sounds, and you answer it by pressing speaker and saying "Go ahead".

 

[Shawnster]

When you have your phone set to StarTrek communication sounds, and you answer it by pressing speaker and saying "Go ahead".

I don't answer with "go ahead," but my default ringtone is the TOS communicator chirp. My default notification sound is the TOS communicator beep. My wife's text message tone is TNG "Priority one message from Starfleet coming in on a secure channel."

Was watching TOS a while back. Kirk's communicator started chirping and I reached for my phone. LOL

 

[1001001]

When your incoming text tone is the TNG "beaming" sound effect.

I too have reached for my phone while watching TNG and Voyager.

 

[Tracy Trek]

When you compare your flip open cell phone to a flip open communicator.

When it's cold enough to freeze the snot in your nose on a winter day when you have to go to work, that you wish you had a Scotty to beam you there.

 

[The Wormhole]

When you hear a loud alarm and instantly yell "Red alert! Shields up!"

 

[Vandervecken]

When everything reminds you of a line from Trek.

I would like to try calling my girlfriend Number 1 and saying "make it so" to her when she proposes a meal, but on the other hand, I like not being Bat'lethed and then Tantalus fielded.

 

[B.J.]

Instead of sarcastically saying "Thank you Captain Obvious!", you say "Thank you Deanna Troi!"

You use quotes from "Darmok" in everyday life.

 

[Sparkle Fabulosa]

When sending emails at work, you have to remind yourself to end with "Thank you" instead of "LLAP."

 

[Doom Shepherd]

When you're tired and want to sleep, but your wife says "Resistance is Futile" and you gain your second wind.
When your subcompact car is known as "Shuttlepod 1."
When you're hurt, and you make the Kirk Pain Face (arms to chest, hands splayed, look of agony.)

When you're introduced to a guy who happens to have "Khan" in his name, and the very fact makes you giddy with anticipation.
When the above is SO OBVIOUS that the guy actually says "Go ahead, get it out of your system."
When you go ahead.

 

[1001001]

When you're introduced to a guy who happens to have "Khan" in his name, and the very fact makes you giddy with anticipation.
When the above is SO OBVIOUS that the guy actually says "Go ahead, get it out of your system."
When you go ahead.

I know exactly what you mean. There was a Dr. Khan at the health center where I work.

Every time...

There's also a Sgt. Kirk who we work with at the jail, and I always want to ask her when she's being promoted to Captain. However, she carries a gun, so I tread lightly on that one.

 

[Doom Shepherd]

TRUE STORY: When your wife is rushed in to have emergency back surgery because of a collapsed disc, with a possible prognosis of complete paralysis, and she's in full panic mode, and the thing that brings her back to stability is the fact that the surgeon shares a last name with her favorite Klingon (Kang), and the first doctor she meets upon admission is named McCoy.

(This was 10/2000. The surgery was a flawless success, she recovered completely.)

 

[locutus101]

When you remember people by associating them with characters from one of the series. (e.g. There was a guy that I called worf (in my mind) because many things I, the way he behaved reminded me of that character).