"We're going to have a good time." "Oh,yeah" "Yeah,yeah,yeah" "Oh,yeah" "Ignition sequence." "5...4... 3...2...1." "Power transfer is complete." "I didn't watch Star Trek, the original series, in the first season before I was on." "I mean, I took one look at the styrofoam rocks, and I said, "Forget it." "I'm not going to watch this."" "Tlhingan hol dajatlh'a'?" "It means, "Can you speak Klingon?"" "You have to give the right answer." "Otherwise, there's dire consequences." "I dance at powwows, and I'm into the Indian way of life and things, and I'm also a Trekker." "It's the greatest feeling in the world, and I do it about 30 to 35 to 40 times a year." "To walk out onstage and to feel that love that just pours right out at you, and it's just fans." "Kirk lmpersonator:" "I've been a fan." "I grew up with it, so I couldn't help but be a fan." "This is the Andorian ambassador Edvaark, and I am guard number 48, and this is guard number 28." "That's right." "You have to understand that, um... even now, I still have" "I still have an ongoing process of trying to grasp all of this, even now." "The name's Douglas Marcks." "I live in Portland." "I've been a fan of Star Trek for a number of years." "I mean, I actually started watching it back in the sixties." "You know, I've been in this for 7 years now, and it's starting to become normal." "[Applause]" "[Cheering]" "In 1987, I auditioned for a show called Star Trek:" "The Next Generation." "Now, I must admit that I went to this audition with some hesitation." "I mean, after all, it was a rehash of a cult-status sci-fi series, and it had a profound effect on the original cast members' careers." "But since I was unknown, unemployed, and unclear as to where any of this was headed," "I went." "What I didn't know was that I was becoming part of something much larger than just a new TV series." "I was becoming part of a phenomenon." "My name is John Paladin." "The Klingon name is Kirg." "I'm Harminder Pal from Glasgow, Scotland." "My name is, um, is..." "Who am I?" "You're a lieutenant commander." "I'm Lieutenant Commander Horatio, and, um, from the starship Battle Queen." "My name's David Silverman." "I'm from central New Jersey." " Canton, Ohio." " San Diego." " Virginia." " Melbourne, Australia." " Biloxi, Mississippi." " Berlin, Germany." "I have fans that write me from Germany, from Italy, from Australia, from England." "I've been to conventions in all those places." "How many conventions have you been to?" "Probably close to 50 or 60." "Really?" "Yeah." "I mean, like I said, you got to have something to do." "This is my third convention." "We've been to probably 20 or 30 or more." "I lost count, you know?" "I've been doing this since 1969, so it's, uh, I almost hate to admit this is my 366th convention this weekend." "I have attended, over the course of about 8 years, 28 conventions." "I'm going to be spending this day in preparation to go the Pasadena Star Trek/ Babylon 5 convention." "I'm going right now to pick up my new, tailor-made Star Trek:" "First Contact uniform to wear tomorrow." "Hey, Travis." "Hey, Gabriel." "How you doing?" "Come on in." "Uh, so Linda dropped it off?" "Yes, she did." "This is the uniform to be featured in Star Trek:" "First Contact." "Linda Thuringer, our club's captain and Garak impersonator, really outdid herself here, except I do have a couple of minor quibbles," "like the red stripe here." "In the actual movie, it's going to be about half this thickness, but she can change that easily." "And the lines running across here are more prominent in the actual versions, but then again, she can just do some topstitching there." "She wanted to take the legs down a bit." "I don't see why." "But overall, fantastic." "This is going to be your car, Gabriel?" "I hope so, because I'm 14." "I'll be 15 in June." "Another year after that, I'll be getting my license." "It's the Roddenberry." "I wish it could fly." "I'm ready to go to another planet." "I'll tell you that much." "Gabriel:" "Obviously, someone never grew out of the 1960s." "Y eah." "I spent a lot of time in vans, that's for sure." "We're going to put a laser beam on the front so when we're driving on a foggy day, we can shoot, like, a 1,000-foot beam." "My name is Lieutenant Commander Barbara Adams." "I'm commanding officer of the U.S.S. Artemis, which is the Little Rock unit of the Federation Alliance." "I'm here at the sci-fi convention in Boston, where Federation Alliance has brought some of our things up here." "I've come because a lot of people have shown a lot of interest in what I did in going to the trial in my uniform." "I was selected, summoned for the jury for the Whitewater trial in Little Rock, Arkansas." "We've had a lot of curious people asking about the organization and also looking into my drawings, which I do as sort of a hobby." "I studied graphic design, and I enjoy drawing, and I also enjoy drawing the Star Trek people." "One of our charters in the Federation Alliance is to perform community service, and as commanding officer, I'm the role model for my crew, and so I felt it was necessary and a good decision for me to wear my uniform." "For more than a week, everybody's seen the picture of Barbara Adams..." "And each morning, there seemed to be more and more reporters because they were waiting to see if I was going to come in my uniform, and it got to the point where there was just a wall of cameras, tripods, reporters," "and I would literally have to walk all the way around them just to get to the door because they would not move." "It just got ridiculous." "My brother had a picture of her on our refrigerator for two months walking out of the courtroom in Arkansas." "Adams:" "And one of the newspapers had reported that every day," "I would walk past the reporters with a Vulcan-like stoicism." "Wow!" "So, they don't know how close they actually hit the mark, because usually, before all this brewed up," "I would always come to these conventions and our appearances as a Vulcan." "There was a bus driver that I'd already met." "He kept asking me, "What are you going to do?" "Why do you keep wearing the uniform?" "What are you going to do if the president comes down to testify?"" "And I said, "I'll wear my uniform."" "He said, "But it's the president of the United States!"" ""I'll wear my uniform."" "We came to a stoplight." "He turned around and he looked at me, and he said, "You are a brave woman."" "Every day, I wear my communicator badge, my rank pips, and my tricorder." "[Badge Beeps]" "To me, as being an officer in the Federation Alliance 24 hours a day, even when I'm not in uniform, I still want that known that I'm at heart a Starfleet officer." "I used to read about her in the newspaper, and I saw her, and I got her autograph." "Basically, the philosophy behind Star Trek that she is so, um, promoting... is the philosophy behind an honest juror." "That's what you need on a jury is an open-minded person." "Based on the ideals of Star Trek, yeah, I think she'd be an asset." "This is what she wants to do." "This is America." "I mean, we should be able to do what we want to do." "You know, look how we want to look, say what we want to say." "I think she's a pretty neat lady to have the guts to, um, kind of be herself, even on an important thing like being a juror." "You can put on a uniform for football year-round, nobody cares." "Basketball year-round, nobody cares." "Put on a Star Trek uniform, people get a case of the giggles." "I don't want my officers to ever feel ashamed to wear their uniform." "And...so," "I went to a civic duty." "What we do is community service." "I was performing my civic duty." "I wore my uniform, just as any other officer in the military would wear theirs." "I came to meet the stars." "I like to see a different side of the stars, the personal side." "DeForest Kelley:" "While I was in Florida," "RuthAnn presented me with this belt buckle on my 138th birthday." "[Laughter]" "Now..." "Now then, every time I see someone, they say, you know, "You look so much younger in person."" "[Laughter]" "The first one that I did, um..." "I think was around '72." "Um, I got a call to come to New Y ork." "They had done one convention first, and I think it wasn't really a convention." "They got together with about 35 or 40 or 50-- the way I heard the story-- of fans of Star Trek that just wanted to get together and talk about the show, which they did." "And they said, "You know, why don't we put our money together and rent a hotel ballroom?"" ""And talk about our mutual interest and show each other what we have collected so far in the way of tapes or paraphernalia or photographs."" "If we could get 300 people to attend, we could...we could pay for it."" "And I thought, "They're inviting me to New Y ork?" "They said they're willing to pay expenses and, you know, fly me there and put me up in a hotel."" "I thought, "These people are foolish."" "And, uh... there was something like," "I think there were around 3,000 or 4,000 people showed up, and it was absolutely wild then." "They had to call the fire department into the hotel to let them in in increments." "Everything came to a dead stop." "It was jam-packed with humanity." "The revolving doors couldn't revolve." "The escalators refused to operate anymore." "The elevators stopped working." "And the din out there indicated it was more than 30 people." "The woman went onstage and introduced me, and I stepped out, and the place exploded in applause." "Kelley:" "And then they were hanging out of the balcony." "It was like a bunch of overaged Beatles for us, you know, me being there." "Nimoy:" "There was hardly a chance to speak because every word created a roar." "Every time somebody opened their mouths to say hello, it created a roar." "A wall of emotional sound hit you." "And we were all kind of taken aback and moved and touched by it because it was this tremendous affection, this tremendous affection." "And now there is a Star Trek convention" "There are Star Trek conventions somewhere every weekend all over the world." "Hi." "Hi there." "Can I have a schedule, please?" "Ah." "Majel." "Definitely got to see Majel." "She's onstage right now." "She's on the stage now?" "Ooh." "You're going to love it." "It was Gene's story and Gene's script, and it was Gene's pilot." "What time is the auction?" "The auction is 2:20 this afternoon." "Oh, there it is." "OK." "This was worn by John Colicos in which episode?" ""Blood Oath."" ""Blood Oath."" "And this is the Turtle, as they call it." "Michael Dorn calls it the Great Turtle." "Turtle head." "There's speed bumps." "Uh, there's, Whoopi Goldberg says "old lntestine Head."" "And, um, the other one I heard is Rocky Mountains." "That's the latest one." "Here is the opening bid for this. $500." "[Audience Members Whistle]" "$500." "We've got a $500 bid, and it's there to a Klingon." "Man:" "I'll go 550." "550." "Klingon: 6." "600. 600." "Do I hear 650?" "650." "1,000?" "$1,000!" "$1,000." "1,100." "$1,100!" "Klingon: $1,200." "What?" "1,200?" "Yeah." "1,200." "OK." "$1,200." "$1,200." "13." "$1,300." "Klingon: 14." "14. $1,400." "Going once." "$1,400." "Going twice." "$1,400...sold at a bargain!" "[Cheering]" "Qapla', man." "Qapla'." "I was bidding on the headpiece, and the price started getting up to the point where I really wasn't interested in paying that much." "That Klingon really wanted it." "He really wanted that headpiece." "Y es." "So, how badly did you want it?" "I wouldn't have left without it." "It's a little bit of history that I'll preserve." "I collect the items when I can get them, and they're wonderful to have." "They're definitely one-of-a-kind items." "Man:" "Everything we touch, whether it be a little piece of hair or a nose or something small, there's a whole cult market out there where a lot of the pieces sell for hundreds and thousands of dollars." "What we see in these rooms literally could run into the millions, you know, if we opened up a market on the outside of it." "So we're very guarded." "Everything we keep under lock and key." "Unfortunately, John de Lancie couldn't make it to this show this weekend due to professional commitments." "We do have an autograph here." "Man:" "Well, the Q virus was the most bizarre thing." "John de Lancie, who plays Q, was-- He barely made it to the convention." "He was really sick." "I mean, very ill." "Dizzy, questioning whether he was going to go onstage, but he was a real trouper, and he went up onstage and did his show, and, you know, he left his water glass." "And I held up the glass and I said, "Who would be interested in purchasing the Q virus?"" "And it was kind of a joke, but the crowd just went absolutely crazy." "They went bonkers for the thing." "So, you know, I went ahead and auctioned off the glass, and it went for, I don't know, 40, $60 or something like this." "And a guy bought it, and he came up, and I said, "Look"" "It was half-full still of water" "I said, "Look, you really don't want to drink this." "He's very sick." "I mean, he's very, very ill."" ""Oh, no, no." "I want to drink it." "I want to drink it."" "And he just downed the whole glass right there," "And he yelled out, "I've got the Q virus!" "I've got the Q virus!"" "And he planned to spread it all over the world." "You know, that was his thing." "I was walking down the street in New Y ork, and I caught somebody coming towards me." "He said, "are you Q?"" "And I said, "Y eah."" ""Can you bring people back from the dead?"" "And I went, "Uh...only people I like."" "And he goes, "Cool." And walked on." "There was a fan who, in 1973 in New York, came up to Jimmy Doohan, who I was with, and pulled out a box that had a hypodermic in it and asked Jimmy if he could get a sample of his blood." "A woman... stood up in one of the conventions and said," ""What's it feel like to be beamed?"" "20 years later, he was at a convention in New Y ork, and the same young man came up to him with the same box with the same hypodermic and said, "Mr. Doohan, can I get a sample of your blood?"" "He was still doing the same thing 20 years later." "Man:" "There's one gentleman who for about, what, 10 years?" "Second Man:" "Almost the whole run." "Almost the whole run of since the beginning of The Next Generation has been sending something in the mail every day to Star Trek." "Every day." "The funny thing is, it has nothing to do with Star Trek." "He sends us travel brochures, um...and that's all he sends." "And postcards talking about where he travels." "Or sometimes, he describes-- Well, look at this one." "We've got a Victoria's Secret catalog that he sent..." "Something about a mission, a fruit trees and landscaping catalog," "Caribbean, Hawaii," "Canada, Australia." "He also will sometimes send postcards talking about what he had for lunch that day or what he ate or how many cups of coffee he drank, and it's always to Star Trek, but it's never about Star Trek." "And we always wondered about this guy." "Who is he?" "Where is he from?" "And why is he sending us these things?" "And if you" " Over 10 years, every day, that's quite a few packages." "Man:" "OK." "Here we go." "Woman:" "Rolling." "And action, please." "Maybe you didn't read the crew roster, but my name is Dax, and I'm the new science officer on this garbage scow, and you were in my seat." "And cut!" "Very nice." "LeVar Burton:" "There was a young man who was confined to a wheelchair, and his name was Jordan La Forge." "The young man was given 6 months to a year to live, and, uh, he attributes the fact that he lived for many years after his prognosis to the fact that he watched Star Trek." "Finally, when he did pass away," "Gene just thought that having somebody in that place, you know, as Geordi, would be a perfect example, a perfect sort of" " A nice thing to do in memory of him." "Originally, Geordi was the pilot of the ship, so he wanted the pilot to be, you know, the blind man, and the blind man is the one that's flying this ship." "I watched the original series with my mother and brother when I was a kid, and I enjoyed it." "At this point, I enjoy his enthusiasm more." "I enjoy the shows, I enjoy the conventions, I like dressing up," "I love dressing her up, but I enjoy his fanaticism." "It's contagious." "Crosby:" "And what makes you a fanatic as opposed to a fan?" "I think the fact that I'm so much into it." "I do a lot of collecting." "I relate to so much of it." "I know a lot about it." "It's more than just a casual "l enjoy the show, I enjoy the concept."" "I'm really into it." "This is the Trek room." "This is, you know, my room." "I can design it the way I want." "I can put what I want in it." "Woman:" "Although you do notice it's spilling out into the other areas of the house." "Y es." "This is the bathroom, and we've carried the Trek theme in here." "We have our Starfleet towel set, and all of our Federation blue tile here." "We offset it with these 3 hand-painted Trek tiles-- the planets, the Enterprise, and one of the enemy." "George Takei:" "We asked whether we might visit Cape Canaveral," "Nichelle and I, and we peered in one of the portholes, and there were astronauts working in that." "They turned around and looked, and they recognized our two faces peering in at them, and you should have seen their eyes light up." "And they came scrambling out of that place, and the first thing they did was ask us, "Can we have your autographs, please?"" "We went there to get their autographs, and they in turn were asking us for ours." "Buzz Aldrin:" "Star Trek came along at a time when I think the public was really kind of hungry for that sort of adventure, and it went a long ways toward stimulating a lot of interest into the space program." "Star Trek is a cultural icon, and it's part of the lexicon now." "As a psychotherapist, I have Star Trek stuff in my office, and I use Star Trek metaphors that everyone understands, even if they're not a fan." "For example, when I talk about people having a defensive reaction," "I talk about the shields going up, and everyone knows what that means, even if they're not a fan." "The front part of my office-- that is, the part that the patients see-- is a pretty straightforward surgical office." "My own private consulting room is just filled with Star Trek stuff." "I'm Denis Bourguignon." "This is my son Doug, my wife Shelley, and my daughter Kayla." "Crosby:" "We're here in Orlando, Florida, at the dental offices of Dr. Denis Bourguignon." " Denis:" "Good morning." " Good morning." "How are you?" " Pleasure to see you." "Welcome to Star Base Dental." " Good to see you." "Denis, Voice-Over:" "We originally decided that we wanted to go with Star Trek because we find that Star Trek, the episodes are always geared with a moral." "They're good-doers, and we wanted to portray dentistry or dentists as good-doers." "Crosby:" "So, um, this is reception." "Denis:" "Yes." "This is reception." "This is where the patients check in." "This is our holodeck over here on the left." "This is where I do most of my work." "This is where you get fillings, crowns, dentures, things like that." "We were just in a sci-fi store one day, Shelley and I, and we kind of looked at each other, and we said, "Hey."" "[Together] You thinking what I'm thinking?" "And we said, "Let's try it."" "[Transporter Sound Effect]" "Two weeks later, we just closed down the office over the weekend, and we bought up everything we could find, and, boom!" "We did a Star Base Dental." "As you can see, our transporter is up in the ceiling over here." "It transports you away from here while we're working on you." "These are some nice pieces over here." "These are my cement handprints of some of the stars." "You're about James Doohan's size." "Crosby:" "No, wait." "There's a finger missing!" "A gardening accident." "I never knew that." "This is the first theme office I worked in." "I really like it." "It's neat." "It's fun to come to work." "Yeah." "It's different to come to work." "You don't know what's going to be around." "They bring something different in all the time." "Every morning you come in, you wonder, "Well, what's going to be on these walls that wasn't here before?"" "The uniform I wouldn't do at first." "I told them no." "That wasn't possible for me." "Crosby:" "And you just-- How long did you hold out?" "Uh, about-- Almost a year." "Almost a year before I was-- I was the last one to put it on." "What made you finally turn the corner?" "He told me I had to." "[Laughter]" "She cried a few times." "He told me I had to." "We actually dress up like this at home, and we take turns being different characters, and it helps our, um..." " Relationship." "Yeah." " Yeah, it does." "Always going out with different people." "Crosby:" "Really?" "Yeah." "I haven't done you yet because I'm not tall enough, so he usually puts a wig on." "He has to portray you." "And then I have to be Data or Quark." "Yeah, Quark." "Sometimes Quark." "Crosby:" "And how do the patients respond?" "Most of them like it." "I think the Star Trek theme in the dentist's office is great." "It takes your mind off where you really are." "It's not like any other dentist office I've ever been in, that's for sure." "Denis:" "Most people, even if they don't like Star Trek," "like the idea of it." "I've only had one person who didn't like the idea, but he wasn't happy about his bill in the first place, so..." "Denis:" "Good afternoon, Preston." "How you doing?" "Hey, Denis." "How are you?" "Good to see you." "Come on back." "Let's go ahead and get you going here." "Go ahead and take a look here." "Number two, occlusal lingual." "Number 3 crown." "Denis, Voice-Over:" "Shelley and I started in another office at about the same time, and Shelley started as the front-desk receptionist." "After about a while, she liked dentistry so much, she decided she wanted to maybe assist, so I brought her back, and I taught her to assist, and, uh...we worked very well together," "so we decided to make it a bond for life, and we're together now forever." "I'm dressed as a NASA astronaut that was actually killed that they investigated the death of in an episode called "The Royale"" "of The Next Generation" "Um, at least, that was the original idea, and then I kind of moved on." "Ha ha!" "Kind of character-developed it a little bit." "Instead of it being him, it's his wife." "Ha ha ha!" "So what is your interest in Star Trek?" "Mainly Brent-- Brent Spiner" "Lieutenant Commander Data on The Next Generation, as you well know." "Ha ha!" "Yes, I know him well." "Now, you guys call yourself..." "Spiner femmes." " Spiner femmes." " Yes." "Spiner femmes?" "I like that." "It's good, isn't it?" "Spiner femmes." "I think there's a series in that." "This is my Brent page." "When I find out that somebody else has discovered Brent through my web page," "I feel really good about it." "I feel" " Yeah, it's another fan here." "Let other people outside of the Star Trek universe know who he is." "He's not just Data." "This is where I keep-- right down here" "I keep... all the important collectibles." "Got the videos, T-shirts, mugs-- the important stuff." "If there's an earthquake, a fire, I want this stuff to be intact." "This is my photo album." "These are more convention photos and more convention photos and even more convention photos and..." "Ha ha ha!" "It goes on for days." "These ones-- I always put them in so they're all facing the same order." "Once I get through with these, then it switches to ones this way." "Saves having to turn the photo album every two minutes." "Palm Springs convention." "This is actually" "I took over 100 pictures at the Palm Springs convention, and when I got them back," "I took a picture of all the pictures I took." "A lot of these are enlargements of convention photos." "I had a calendar made up one year for a couple of friends for Christmas presents." "That's my back right there." "I gave him-- It was a Texas stamp they issued, and they issued a sheet that told about the background of Texas and all that." "I ordered it from the post office and framed it for him since he's from Texas." "Spiner:" "I don't get much stuff anymore because I've sort of let it be known when I've done conventions and stuff that it wasn't necessary and it wasn't really a good idea because-- that the people should be spending their money on me, you know?" "Ha ha!" "I mean, I tried to express that we do OK and that they should really, you know, save their money." "Woman:" "It's not about the money." "It gives me a good feeling." "I like to do that for my friends, too." "If I can find something unusual" "I like to get unusual gifts for people." "After I'd lived here about a year and I found out where Brent lived," "I realized I could just see-- I can't see his house, but I can see the hill-- the top of the hill that he lives at the bottom of from the balcony, and so when I'm stressed out," "I come out here sometimes and just sit out here for a few minutes to take what I call a "Brent break"" "and just kind of gaze off in that direction and daydream for a little while." "Crosby:" "What are some of your favorite things that you like to do at conventions?" "Ever heard of filking?" "No." "Tell me what that is." "Science-fiction folk singing." "Uh, could you explain that?" "Well, actually I could give you an example." "Perfect." "Uh, episode of the original series called "Space Seed,"" "which was the launching for the second movie," "The Wrath Of Khan." "There is a song." "The song is called Vow of Vengeance." "It's Khan's vow." "Let's" " Let's see." "Thesummersunlight" "Thehowlingat night" "Thebloodof friendsspilled" "Onthesand" "I'llmeetsomequickdeath" "Shebreathesherlastbreath" "Anddiesas Iclingtoherhand" "Meremortalsyoube" "Thetruthyoucan see" "Youthinkyouhaverightbut" "[Quietly] And you" " Wait, wait." "It's been a while since I've sung it." "Youthink" "No." "Action!" "An alliance with the Borg?" "Janeway:" "More like an exchange." "If we teach the Borg how to modify their own nanoprobes, they'd have a blueprint to create a weapon to fight the aliens." "Cut!" "When I am asked to go to a hospital, it's a specific boy, and he's not going to be there the next time I go to that hospital, and it means a great deal to him" "that I be honest with him in that hour that we share together, you know?" "That can change your life." "There's a woman who's almost totally paralyzed, and she was able to just kind of with the help of an interpreter say," ""For the hour that you are on"-- meaning Star Trek is on" ""l forget the body that I am imprisoned in."" "I got a fan letter from a young lady." "It was a suicide note." "So I, uh" " I called her." "I said, "Hey, this is Jimmy Doohan" "Scotty of Star Trek."" "I said, "I'm doing a convention in Indianapolis." "I want to see you there."" "I saw her." "Boy, I'm telling you--blah." "I couldn't believe what I saw." "That was-- She was definitely suicidal." "You know... somebody had to help her somehow, you know, and obviously she wasn't going to the right people, you know." "Anyhow, I said to her-- I said, "I'm doing a convention two weeks from now in St. Louis, and two weeks from then in something," you know, and then eventually-- she also came to New York." "She was able to afford to go to these places and everything else, so, uh..." "And then that went on for 2 or 3 years... maybe 18 times... and all I did was talk positive things to her, and then all of a sudden-- Pfft!" "Nothing." "I didn't hear anything, and I had no idea what was happening to her because I really never saved her address, right?" "8 years later, I get a letter... saying, "l do want to thank you so much for what you did for me because I just got my master's degree in electronic engineering."" "You know, that's... to me, the best thing I've ever done in my life, and it brings tears to my eyes every time I even talk about the story." "Shatner:" "Over a period of several years, we've raised several hundred thousand dollars for these 3 charities." "This is what Star Trek does." "Star Trek is part entertainment and part philosophy, and this part of Star Trek goes unnoticed to most of the public." "I have a question." "Have you thought about actually talking to schoolteachers?" "I'm a schoolteacher-- and talking to schools and getting them to talk to the kids about it?" " Can you help us organize that?" " Sure!" "Woman:" "I teach kindergarten, so sometimes it's a little hard for them to grasp the concept of racial diversity and ethnic diversity, so if you have a show like Star Trek that shows a bunch of different aliens and a bunch of different-colored people" "and different types of people all getting along, it works wonderfully to illustrate that point." "Star Trek has changed the way that I teach science, specifically space science." "By giving children an immediate frame of reference that they know of, that they can get excited about, it just inspires their imagination." "This is something we've been excited about because it's carried on." "Having Kate Mulgrew portray the captain on the Voyager..." "They feel that it's the first time that they can sit down as a family and view a woman in a leadership role as a family without having to carry on a conversation about who's being victimized or what does she stand for." "She is so obviously a woman of authority and strength, but she's not a witch with a capital "B," you know?" "She's" " She's just a person in authority." "I get a great deal of mail from women who say that they watch Voyager with their daughters and how good it makes them feel to be able to point to the screen and say," ""See?" "You can be anything."" "What do you want to do when you grow up?" "Be an astronaut." "Mae Carol Jemison-- first African-American woman in space." "She flew on the shuttle-- became a scientist first and then an astronaut because she saw Nichelle Nichols on the original Star Trek series and said, "You know what?" "That's for me."" "There were two little girls around 9 years old, 8 years old, when Star Trek first came on, and one of them told me years later," ""l looked on that television and I saw you." "I saw this black lady, and I ran through the house screaming," "Come quick!" "Come quick!" "There's a black lady on television, and she ain't no maid!"" "Ha ha ha!" "And she said, "l knew right then and there" "I could be anybody I wanted to be." "I could be anything I wanted to be."" "And so she decided to be a superstar." "Ha ha!" "And her name is Whoopi Goldberg." "I'm Joyce Mason." "And I'm Evelyn de Biase." "And we host a radio show called Talk Trek and Beyond." "The way it got started was, we were on our lunch hour one time at work, and we thought about Trek-- talking Trek." "You know, it's a lot of fun, something we do a lot of, so we decided it would be a great radio show." "How do you do it?" "Well, I called up the directory assistance on the phone, and I asked for the telephone number of a radio station, and she asked me..." ""Which one do you want?"" "I didn't know, so I said, "Pick one."" "And she did." "She picked out this radio station--KAV." "We packed up our things, went over." "Two weeks later, we were on the air." "First time." "That was 7 years ago, and we're still on!" "Ha ha ha!" "And it's been a lot of fun." "We didn't have the foggiest idea what we were doing that first night, but-- And we still don't." "Ha ha!" "Man:...a convention on the air." "[Fanfare Playing]" "Evening, gentle beings." "How are you all doing tonight?" "Welcome to Talk Trek and Beyond." "This is Joyce." "We're delighted to be with you." "We're going to have a good time tonight." "We have a very special guest with us" " Denise Crosby." "Denise Crosby!" "Yay!" "Woo-hoo!" "Hey, guys, are you ready?" "I know that our listeners are just dying to talk to you." "Hey, John in Portland, Oregon, on line one." "Hey, Portland!" "John:" "Yes, hi, you guys." "Hi, Denise." "Crosby:" "Hi, John." "One thing I'd like to say-- without "Skin of Evil,"" "there could have been no "Yesterday's Enterprise."" "Right, exactly." "There's some irony in that, isn't there?" " Yes." " I mean, I always felt I had to die and get off the show to get the best episode." "I love this-- being able to talk to you like this because when the show originally aired, my father passed away." "I'm sorry." "And the weird thing about it was, the friends that were there-- a lot of them are Trek fans and were around me at the time, and we sat down and watched that episode." "The strangest thing about it was, by the time it got to the end and the holographic message and the whole thing, it actually helped me a great deal, and here I get to thank you personally," "which I did appreciate it, and I still do." "John, I'm really touched." "I think so many times that people don't realize just how important a show can be." "It can destroy you, or it can-- as in a case like this-- give you a tremendous amount of comfort." "Oh, yes, between the ending and the holographic imaging and the cloud and everything, it was just exactly what I needed at the time." "John, I don't know how to say thank you for that tonight-- for sharing that with us." "I thank you for Talk Trek." "You're welcome." "Thank you for being with us, my friend." "There's nothing like a bunch of Trek people getting together someplace and just sitting and talking." "They'll go for 24 hours or more, and" "And that's why it's called Talk Trek rather than Trek Talk-- because it's not just a matter of talking about Trek, but rather it's a whole universe within itself." "Just like people talk French and talk German, we talk Trek." "Crosby:" "So what does your bathtub look like at the end of the day?" "It looks very green." "Ha ha!" "Trust me on that." "Who is your favorite captain?" "Have to be Captain Kirk." "Captain Picard." "I'm kind of a Kirk fan." "I like Kirk because he was the first captain." "The original, the prototype for everything else that came along afterwards." "Absolutely Kirk." "Captain Jean-Luc Picard." " Picard." " Picard." " Picard." "Now, there's a very handsome man." "There's a very handsome man" " Captain Picard." "Who's your favorite captain?" "Data." "Well, Data's not a captain." "No, I don't like any captains." "Who's going to beat Captain Kirk?" "Come on!" "Come on!" "He's a stud!" "I can only say Janeway." "Janeway's a stud, too, but" " Ha ha!" " Janeway." " Janeway." "I'd probably say split between Janeway and Kirk." "Kirk." "I like Avery Brooks, too, but that's because he's cute." "Crosby:" "Who's your favorite captain?" "Ha ha ha!" "I am." "I couldn't pick one captain over another." "The emissary!" "The emissary is different." "You must remember the emissary." "He is most important, but to place the others above the emissary would not be right." "When I got the job, everybody said," ""Oh, the Trekkers, the Trekkies."" "Well, in fact, they're very smart." "One has to be smart to connect science with the imagination." "That's what's really interesting to me-- that a show could have fans that span and bridge every sort of classification." "Stephen Hawking and Mel Brooks and, you know, Dr. Marvin Minsky-- who's head of the robotics department at M.I.T.-- or the Mercury astronauts." "Accountants, these are lawyers." "These are people who just really, really enjoy the program." "There's this preconceived notion that they are a peculiar bunch of people, you know?" "I don't think I've ever met anyone" "Star Trek fan or not-- who wasn't peculiar." "I mean, we're all peculiar, aren't we?" "The word "fan" actually is an abbreviated form of "fanatic,"" "and there are some people who fit that category, who are the people who really do need to get a life, but most fans are pretty normal people who have a hobby, who have a sense of the desire to escape," "and they know it's a show, and nobody really gets lost in it, but it's just fun." "Woman:" "We are the largest ship in the San Diego area." "We do a lot of community service." "We go and visit abused children in hospitals, and we work fairs, and we're having a miniature golf tournament in two weeks, and" "Dressed as Klingons?" "Yes." "You play miniature golf dressed as Klingons?" "Yes, yes." "We're going to donate the money to charity." "My name is Marc Okrand, and what I've done is develop the Klingon language for Star Trek." "Nuqneh!" "Our only greeting translates quite literally to "What do you want?"" "When they played Klingon softball," "I never devised words for "You're out," "You're safe,"" "something like that, so they had to improvise, and the way they improvised is," ""You're dead," You're alive," which works just as well." "I like the way Klingons believe-- their code of ethics and honor." "What I've done is turn around and tattooed the Klingon insignia." "It took me about 2 1/2 hours of work with a homemade pen to get it inked in." "This is a Klingon disrupter pistol." "Two basic settings." "This is the stun-- That's the stun setting." "Never have I heard it been used in Star Trek." "Not only has Klingon been spoken just in the movies, it turns out that people like to speak the language." "People like to learn the language." "Man:" "The Klingon language camp is something that we've been having for the last 4 years." "It's a summer program for people to learn the language and customs of the culture." " Tlhingan hol." " Tlhingan hol." "Tlhingan hol dajatlh'a'?" "Tlhingan hol dajatlh'a'?" "Maj." "How do you say "kill"?" " Hoh!" " Hoh!" " Hoh!" " Hoh!" " Yihoh!" " Yihoh!" " Jihoh!" " Jihoh!" " Pehoh!" " Pehoh!" " Jihoh!" " Jihoh!" " Pehoh!" " Jihoh!" " Mahoh!" " Mahoh!" "[Singing In Klingon]" "They just came out with the first full edition in Klingon of Hamlet." "They're working on translating the Bible." "There's a team of scholars doing this, and they've translated the theme song to Sesame Street, the theme song to Gilligan's Island." "Klingons are really popular." "Klingons are very popular." "Ha ha!" "It's an interesting phenomenon." "I mean" "You said that with a straight face." "Klingons are popular because they're fun." "Klingons allow us as non-Klingons to express a certain aspect of our personality," "I think, that we're not allowed to do in public." "Woman:" "I want to get the, uh, sour cream and chives potato." "Would you like cheese on the Super Star or without?" "Without cheese?" "This combo?" "OK, would you like that supersized for 39 cents more?" "It's got a large fries and large drink." "$9.56." "16!" "Pick up, please!" "16!" "Have you ever served a Klingon before?" "Yes." " You've served Klingons before?" " Yes." "When I was 6 years old-- January of 1989" "I attended my first convention, and here is a picture from it." "Man:" "One day I was at home, and I get a phone call, and Gabriel at the time was 6 years old, and the school calls me up and says, "Would you please come and pick up your son?"" "I said, "Well, what's the matter?" "Is he hurt or what?"" "They said, "No." "He happens to be wearing his Star Trek uniform and his pointed Spock ears and full makeup, and I don't think this is the right attire for him to wear at school."" "It's a Catholic-- It was a Catholic school, too." "They made me come and pick him up, which I thought was pretty funny and it took him years before he really could comprehend that he wasn't supposed to go to school like that, but that's the way life is when you're 6 years old." "Yeah, I was supposed to be wearing my plaid pants and tie." " Another interesting thing that-- - [Telephone Rings]" "Oh, for God's sakes!" "I'll get that." "I'll get that." "Hello." "Peter, this is the worst time you could have called!" "Go away!" "OK, bye." "Ha ha ha!" "Around this entire section here, we have my collection of autographed Star Trek action figures, and over here I have the collection of the 4 captains." "This Sisko here might look a bit messy because I shaved it with an X-Acto knife because of his new look this season and painted on a goatee with model paint." "Over here I put up somewhat of a chart with my Datas illustrating the evolution of the uniforms in the past few years." "We start out here with Data in the first/second season lycra jumpsuit, which I heard caused the male actors back problems;" "then the third through seventh season two-piece uniform, and then the Generations jumpsuit version and now the gray-shouldered First Contact garbs, which of course I am wearing now." "Man:" "I normally dress up as Data." "One lady thought that I was Data and came up to me, and she had her baby, and she kept--she was like," ""Will you--Will you touch my baby?"" "I've been asked to bless people..." "One wanted me to sign the interior of his car" "To marry people..." ""Oh, wow!" "He touched my baby!" "He touched my baby!"" "Then she runs off screaming in the halls." "One wanted me to help him ease his way into death." "It was an odd request." "Maybe we should have told her I wasn't Data." "Ha ha!" "It'sa beautifulday" "Ooh,we'llflyaway" "It'sa beautifulday..." "The Mark and Brian radio program-- 95.5 KLOS." "All right, now, there is a Star Trek convention in town this weekend." "A lot of Trekkies are here." "They're coming from all over the world." "In celebration of that group of people in town, we" " Mark and Brian-- now give you the Star Trek theme." "[Playing Star Trek Theme Badly]" "[Shrieking Star Trek Theme]" "There we go." "I'm a little busy now." "All right, we'll take a commercial break and return." "Crosby:" "Do you have a favorite episode?" "The original?" "Well, of course, the original" "The original?" "OK." "Oh, look here, mister." "See, he shouldn't even be in this." "He doesn't even dig Star Trek." "I like Star Trek!" "I like it fine!" "No!" "You're like, "Who are those guys with the pointy ears?"" "Star Trek's a way of life, man." "It's a good way of life." "It teaches us all." "This background here that you see was rendered by me." "It is the Nemesis station from Star Station Nemesis, the film project that our club is working on at the moment." "This is the screenplay in its computer form." "This program is where it was written and where all the modifications were made." "This script is basically the back story that they've conceived for the club." "Then I translated the outline we wrote into the 172-page screenplay." "What you're about to see here are some of the fledgling opticals I've created." "As you can see, there's a considerable amount of detail that went into it." "This is pan-up shot that I did, and as you can see, there's a little flickering around there that I'm trying to get rid of." "One thing that I've been tinkering around with is a Romulan armada shot." "I rendered this sequence in two parts." "This is the logo for the trailer for the movie that we're putting together to show at not this coming meeting, but the next one." "Woman:" "Gabriel and Travis, our communications officer, came up with the idea to start making a movie for our club." "Gabriel designed some new uniforms specifically for the movie." "[People Talking]" "There's yours." "Now..." "[Applause]" "They're still-- still in process." "Now you have to decide which one you're going to wear tomorrow." "Yeah." "It will be a tough choice." "Ha ha!" "Wow." "This costume is the uniform that I've designed." "It came out of about 50 conceptual sketches, and this is my favorite of them from the film project that I'm working on, and it should be noted that this is only a prototypical version, and, uh..." "The collar on the completed version will be-- come to about here, but it's" "She kind of cut short the collar a bit, and it will have shoulder pads, and it will be all wool." "This has some wool components and some polyester components, and overall I think the first version looks nice." "I've got a friend of mine that does custom tailoring, so he does all my uniforms for me." "I have a dress uniform." "I've got just, like, a couple of the regular T-shirt tops and things like that, and this is one of the jumpsuits." "This is normal attire for me." "We don't feel like we look any different than anyone else anymore, because we've been doing it for so long." "In fact, sometimes after work I'll be leaving and I'll have my uniform on." "People will be staring at me, and I'm like," ""What are they staring at me for?" To me, it's just natural." "Man:" "I go out a lot of times in the uniform, and I find it a pretty positive thing." "Sometimes I'll get people that-- they'll give me a smile, they'll say something or give me a Star Trek Vulcan salute." "I've never had a negative experience, and I enjoy it." "On a couple of occasions, I've had people ask me something about, "Well, how long are you going to do this?"" "Or "Why do you do all this?" "Don't you have a life for real?"" "And this is part of my life for real." "Hi, Steve." "How you doing?" "All right." "How are you today?" " All right." " Good." "As long as I'm able to do it, I'm going to do it." "Doesn't hurt anybody, makes a lot of people feel good, and I think that's sort of the point of things." "Gabriel:" "I'm going inside now to some of my favorite stores to search for new Star Trek memorabilia, hard-to-get action figures, and the like." "You know, I spend around maybe 300-400 bucks a year on Star Trek merchandise, but if I could, I'd spend a lot more-- about--way over 1,000." "The reality is Star Trek fans devote more time, energy, and finance to their object of affection than any other group of people in the world." "I am a die-hard Star Trek fan, and I'm going all over the country trying to get everything I can, before I die, of Star Trek." "This is the Data "Redemption"-- the red Playmates doll-- the one that's very rare and valuable, and I got it for $25 at a convention, and now they're going for $250, $300, which" "Not that I'll ever sell mine." "It's not for sale!" "These dolls and things all have numbers on their feet, and they look for the lowest number." "I'm about to do a valuable trade for these two figures from the Huntsville, Alabama, convention that go for about 100 bucks apiece because they were limited to only 10,000 for the equally rare Thomas Riker figure because I'm getting the better end of the deal" "because the production number was a bit lower and goes for considerably more on the secondary market than this set." "There you go." "These are from Huntsville." "Huntsville" " That's the only place you can get these, huh?" "And some were numbered over 10,000, but that was a mistake." "They used parts from another figure." "Ah!" "Interesting." "Thank you." "Those were actually the legs from "The Cage" Spocks." "How do you know all that?" "I'm on the internet." "Ha ha!" "I'm keeping those for myself." "Man:" "My folks used to get really mad because I'd just talk about it and talk about it and talk about it all the time," "Ioving all the wonderful Star Trek stuff, and here am I now, 27 years old, and I still collect all these things, and I love it just as much." "The super phaser target game" "This was pretty hip for the early seventies." "Star Trek:" "The Motion Picture-- the pop-up book." "These were the hottest thing when I was a kid." "Taco Bell was running this special, and these are Star Trek 1984 drinking glasses, and in 1989, they came out with Star Trek V, and they had this special offer where you could send for your futuristic marshmallow dispenser." "So I went ahead, and I sent for this thing, and here we go." "It's still intact." "It's, like, mint in a bag." "All this stuff has, like, overtaken my house in such a big way." "One of my goals is to actually build, like, a great big shelf where I could actually display it." "That would be kind of neat." "Woman:" "When we first started doing the Star Trek cruises, the fans came because they wanted to have quality time with the stars." "Each fan has their picture taken with all of the stars and Star Trek guest celebrities around them." " Crosby:" "Tell me about the passport." " It looks like a U.S. passport, but obviously it says United Federation of Planets, and we filled it out." "It's sort of a thing you pick up at the conventions." "I went to Honduras and Belize, and they just stamped me in." "In fact, I even have one... scary" "U.S. Immigration." "February 7, 1994, they stamped me in." "Man:" "Coming is Jimmy Doohan's-- Scotty's director's chair." "My wife is flying in with that today, and" "And that will be for sale?" "Y es." "That's for sale." "Here's the sign." "We have the sign, but we don't have the chair." " And that's worth what?" " $375." " Wow." "I don't know if it's worth that." "We put a price on it." "We hope it's worth that." "I don't know." "It's hard to put a price on something like that, though, really." "It's probably worth a million dollars." "Whatever you collect, you can usually find it at conventions." "At a typical convention, you'll find a plethora of dealer tables selling a variety of Star Trek merchandise." "Over here we have some gorgeous cardboard stand-ups." "I really must pick up one of these." "A nice collection of the various novels." "And there is a set of the figures right there I just traded." "Star Trek ship diagrams and blueprints," "Star Trek- related bookmarks," "Star Trek- related jewelry, and Star Trek uniform adornments," "Star Trek software, plates, CDs, lithographs, calendars, phasers, a good deal of the model kits." "I always love buying and building the model kits." "I've just been putting the finishing touches on Voyager here." "Of course, the Nacelles fold, as you see on the series." "One little problem here is this is coming apart there." "I don't think the Voyager is supposed to have saucer sep capability." "I became a dealer because when I was younger," "I read a few too many Conan books, and I started to get interested in swords and armor and learned how to make armor and got interested in weaponries." "And then we went to gun shows, and we used to carry the armor on the table." "Then in about 1991, they came out with the 25th anniversary Star Trek cards, and I got all excited and went down and bought a few too many boxes and broke them all for sets, and I got my sets, and then I had all these sets left over." "So we took them to the gun show, and I put them next to the armor, and then all of them disappeared." "And then they started asking me for one of these and one of those." "And the armor started moving farther and farther off the edge of the table, and now it's on the floor, and these and those have taken over everything." "I'm working now with a company that is doing cookie jars." "They're 30th anniversary Star Trek cookie jars." "I've collected 759 autographs in about 5 years-- of the Star Trek characters." "This is going to be kind of like Christmas, ripping open all these packages and stuff." "She just got me hooked on the cards." "I've just become addicted." "I told you, all you have to do is buy one pack." "You just buy one pack, and you're automatically addicted." "I've been in printing now for 11 years." "I work in the bindery department." "Woman:" "A lot of people do think she's strange, and they'll say, "What kind of person is she really?"" "And honestly, she's very well-educated and intelligent." "She takes her job responsibilities very seriously." "She's a good worker." "But I think a lot of people think she's not very intelligent, whereas, really, she is." "Man:" "Bobby is a little bit eccentric, but it's a good quality kind of eccentricity." "The customers do think it's a little bit strange sometimes, but they get a kick out of it." "Everyone's got their quirks, and we just work around and with those." "When I first came into the shop," "I was going around meeting everyone and getting names, and I got to Bobby, and they said, "This is the commander."" "Commander, do we have enough of that 80-pound rich gloss for Tippen's calendar?" "Going to be about 35." "OK." "Y eah." "Thank you." "Man:" "Commander." "Y es?" "Which job is that?" "Woman:" "When she first came to work here and I called her "girlfriend,"" "she made some comment that she didn't really like that, and I said, "What would you prefer I call you?"" "I said, "My rank is commander." "I'm a lieutenant commander."" "She said, "Oh!" "Commander." "That's what I'll call you."" "When I asked her why, she started telling me all about this Star Trek that she was into big time, and she was commander of some spaceship here locally." "Crosby:" "Did she explain what these things were that she was wearing?" "Woman:" "Y es, but don't ask me what they are." "One's a phaser, and it beams her up, and the other's something else." "I've never gotten any negative response from it, and some of our customers, especially since the trial, I think recognize me, but they don't usually say anything." "Has it encouraged you to watch Star Trek some more?" "Actually, yes." "I seldom ever watch Star Trek." "Only because you want to understand what I'm talking about." "Yeah." "Some of it." "And I'm really not a Star Trek fan, but I get into it because she's into it." "In my favorite fan letter, I received" "I opened it up, and there was a marijuana cigarette glued to a piece of cardboard and a photo of a very delightful-looking young girl." "And she said, "You have turned me on so many times," "I thought I would return the favor."" "I kept that one." "I've saved some pretty great stuff the fans have sent me." "These are ink drawings" "Chekov, Captain Picard," "Saavik, Dr. Crusher." "A woman named Jean Kluge, she drew me in a kind of Davy Crockett motif." "This is from Blowing Rock, North Carolina." "Tasha and Sela together again." "This is a kind of" "King Arthur" " Knights of the Round Table motif." "Sela, looking tough." "A lot of times, kids send me things." "Nice lucite box they sent it to me in." "This is Tasha done in needlepoint." "It is, I think, my favorite." "This is a very imaginative pose." "At first, I've got to tell you, I was actually shocked, and then I kind of really have grown to appreciate it." "Spiner:" "What was weird to me when I saw the first one was not just how they got my naked body perfect" "I mean, it was just a perfect rendition-- but yours was almost specific." "I mean, it" "[Crosby Giggling]" "Are you filming?" "Star Trek is unique in that we are the only television show that has an open-script submission policy." "We will take scripts from anyone in the world." "I once had a fan come in dressed in a Starfleet uniform, who was calling himself Ensign Jones, and all of his stories, of course, had to do with" "Ensign Jones taking control of the Enterprise, or Ensign Jones goes to the Klingon home world, or, you know, stuff like that" "Ensign Jones travels through time." "I write in the original Trek genre, involving the characters of Kirk and Spock." "I write slash that appears on the internet." "You're talking about the K/S zines." "The Kirk/Spock fetish groups." "The term means one character with another, like Kirk "slash" Spock." "We thought that either Gene or the studio would put a stop to it, but the studio never really seemed to care because we're talking very small circulations." "We're all very normal ladies-- mostly housewives." "Who want to read sexual stories about Kirk and Spock but don't want to see them with other women." "The mailing list I'm on is completely anonymous." "Why is it important that your identity not be revealed?" "Because of the controversial nature." "We're living in a culture that isn't as progressive, so it's important to avoid censure." "I write The Secret Logs of Mistress Janeway." "This is a story about Mistress Janeway and how she ties up Ensign Kim and beats Tuvok with a riding crop." "That was rather interesting." "A fan made this." "He sculpted out of an X-Men figure, repainted it-- complete with a whip, cat-o'-nine-tails, handcuffs." "Man:" "Another fan wrote a Klingon sex manual." ""There's no such thing as safe sex in Klingon, how to tell if your daughter is seeing a Klingon, meeting your Klingon, initiating the mating ritual."" "Worf and I went up, and I pushed him, he pushed me back." "We started wrestling." "And it's understood that that is part of the Klingon culture." "The female pushing a man or slapping a man is considered like," ""Hey, I want to go out with you." "I find you attractive."" "Uh!" "I don't have it with me anymore" " I threw it away-- but they had made from latex a Klingon condom." "It was ridged." "It had like big ridges and stuff." "There are now thousands of K/S zines out there." "It's way too late to stop it." "My name is Daryl Frazetti, this is Bones, and we've gone to about a dozen Star Trek conventions together." "I do that with him mainly because he enters the costume contests, and it's something fun for both of us to do together." "We have a lot of fun doing it with the people we meet." "He's got his little med kit right here--his props." "this is the original Trek scrub top, and this is the science insignia and his DeForest Kelley pin that he always wears for luck." "We're probably bigger classic Trek fans than any of the other shows, and DeForest Kelley happens to be our favorite actor." "He will sit there and watch television." "Some cats will sit there and watch television." "Some of them actually even respond to the phasers or some of the ships going by on the screen, as well." "We're here for this convention, and we're old friends who met because of Star Trek, and we're having a 13-year reunion." "First time we've been together-- the 4 of us-- in 13 years." "We're so divergent in personality, in backgrounds, in our family styles and everything, and yet, we have this common thread of Star Trek, which keeps us together." "Remember when-- the first convention we went to, we'd forgotten what it was like." "And we were at the convention, and we were all accepted." "And when we left and we went back home, we had to act normal again." "[Laughter]" "I think if there's one thing in this world that I will take to my grave with me forever is the fans." "They are so loving, and they are so warm, and they are so tender, and if you go someplace, like into a convention, and you don't have any friends there, you don't know anybody there," "you really do because they're all thinking-- somewhere along the line, they're thinking like you are." "My family thinks I'm the odd one of the family." "They think I'm totally weird, but I found this club, and I found out I'm not the only one, so I guess I'm not so weird after all." "It's really great to go to a convention, and it's like a family reunion." "My wife is here, and she and I met, actually, in a Star Trek club." "I know a lot of people from around the state that I would have never met unless I joined this club." "So it's meeting people." "It's about people." "What we do is we usually set up a recruiting table so that we can get new members to join the organization." "Recruitment happens every waking moment." "Every time you see one of us either in uniform or out on the street, if our mouth is open and breath comes forth, we're recruiting." "Woman:" "We belong to two international fan clubs-- the United Federation of Planets lnternational and the Romulan Star Empire." "I am Linda Thuringer." "I am the captain, and my Romulan name is Efa Tilavet, and I am the commander of the Praetorian Guard for the Romulan Star Empire." "Steve Menaugh." "I'm the first officer, and my Romulan name is Menhaltra Laheron, and I'm the subcommander of the Praetorian Guard." "I am the security chief for the Nemesis station, and I'm also a member of Romulan Star Empire." "My name is Terry Stenoe." "I'm the chief medical officer on the Nemesis station." "Woman:" "I thought at first that I was a little afraid to come to my first meeting," "But it was just a lot of fun." "But the thing is about this group is that it is unique." "I think people are really educated that are in this group." "They know a lot about science, they know a lot about what's going on in the world, and it's neat to be with people like that." "I think it's really fun because you can-- because it's the only place that I can think of that you can goof off, and grownups goof off the same way and about the same acceptance." "Are you a Trekkie?" "Totally." "How do you say "Trekkie"?" "Lengwi' is a Trekkie." "Lengwi'." "Lengwi' jih means "I'm a Trekkie."" ""I'm a traveler" is really what that means, but close enough." "Are you a Trekkie?" "Yeah, I'd say I am." "I am a Trekkie." "Not card-carrying." "I'm not the kind that wears uniforms all the time." "He is a card-carrying Trekkie." "He has a credit card that says Star Trek on it." "At times, I'm a Trekkie, and other times, I'm a Trekker." "Every serious fan considers themself a Trekker." "Trekkie versus Trekker." "I don't even know what that is." "It's a generational-type thing." "The Trekkie is the-- either saw old Star Trek when it first came out or started in with the reruns early in the seventies." "The Trekker is primarily someone who started in with Next Generation or iv." "Trekkers seem to be, like, snobs." ""I'm not a Trekkie, I'm a Trekker."" ""Trekker" sounds a little pretentious, but at least it's preferable." "A Trekker is, in fact, a star-trekker." "They are walking with us, right?" "The Trekker is motivated." "The Trekker is in motion." "The Trekkie is a sort of neutral, benign, harmless viewer who just wants to watch." "I am a Trekkie." "Actually, we're called Trekkens, but, yeah, I am a Trekkie." "Are we going to take a trek?" "We're not a couple of Trekkies, right?" "Then we're watching the trek." "But the Trekker, then, is coming with us." "Denis:" "A Trekker is somebody who enjoys Star Trek." "They probably have a small collection at home." "They're really into it, they go to Star Trek conventions, and sometimes they'll dress up and things like that." "A Trekkie, they live their life according to Star Trek laws." "I myself prefer "Trekker,"" "but I'm not quite as adamant about it as some of the other fans out there." "I don't really like the Trekkie/Trekker labels because there's so much negative connotations associated with that." "You say, "I'm a Trekker,"" "and then people just start making all the rude comments, et cetera, so I'd rather be known as a Spiner femme." "I usually just refer to myself as a Star Trek fan and just forget about this whole Trekkie/Trekker debacle." "I met William Shatner the first time on the Tonight Show." "I was fortunate enough to get the name of the casting director, and I sent her a package and found out that within a couple weeks after I sent that package that he was due to be a guest." "They wanted me to come on and do a quick spot with him, which we did, and it was great fun." "he was a perfect gentleman to me." "My name is James Kirk." "I changed my name because ever since I was little," "I always wanted to change my name to something I would enjoy, I would like, something more befitting my character." "I've had a lot of ridicule, but I've had a lot of positive." "A lot of people go, "l wish I had the guts to do something like that or change it to something I would be pleased with."" "I go, "You can." "You can do anything you want in life."" "I am with the starship Riverside from Riverside, Iowa." "It's a small town that's become famous because in the movies," "Kirk actually says he's from Iowa." "About approximately 12 years ago," "Riverside proclaimed the right to be the future birthplace of Captain James T. Kirk, and so far, it's been a big boon to the town." "We have our Star Trek fest the last Saturday of every June." "We get anywhere from 3,000 to maybe 6,000 people to town." "We have a parade, a carnival, a contest." "It's just really a boon to the town." "[Applause And Cheering]" "Jimmy, my boy, Jimmy!" "Happy birthday!" "Man:" "We've been having this party now for years." "It seems like every year, it gets to be a little bit more fun and a couple more people come." "You know, it started off small, and now the younger people are coming, and this year, we had a girl come and everything, so, you know, I just foresee it going on and on." "Man:" "It's just kind of a fun bonding thing we do out here." "Every year, I whip up my world-famous Romulan concoction." "I won't reveal the ingredients." "Man:" "You know, I like the Vulcan." "The Vulcan's a very logical person." "That's why I like Spock, and he's very logical, and with the conventions that we go to, there's a lot of Klingons." "And being a Vulcan, it's kind of nice to kind of stand out in that way, and, you know, the Vulcans are obviously a lot smarter than the Klingons as well." "Man:" "I drove down from Calgary today to take a look at the starship Enterprise," "The model that we have here in Vulcan, Alberta." "I'm really impressed with the beautiful job they've done on it, and I think it's really great that here in Canada, the town of Vulcan has adopted the Star Trek theme." "Man:" "We really enjoy having people from all over the world to talk with and share with us their stories of Star Trek and the things that they've been involved with." "Woman:" "I'm visiting Vulcan today because of the Star Trek convention." "Obviously, it's a Vulcan community." "My heroes are Spock and Tuvok and Spock's father." "Man:" "Some people have fake or phony Spock ears, but I have the real thing." "It's been a--as you can imagine, 30 years of amazing experiences, one after another." "I was at a party once many years ago that Paramount was giving, a big promotional party for a number of their movies, and all of the stars of these various films were there, and I was invited." "The place was packed with people, and it was in New Y ork, and I felt a pair of hands on my shoulder." "And, um...somebody whispered into my ear and said," ""l recognize you." "You had your ears fixed."" "And it was John Wayne." "Everybody was doing ear jokes in those days." "I got a kick out of that." "It was fun." "There is a great deal of my personality that is Mr. Spock." "I try to function on logic and intelligence and not get carried away with emotion." "I do consider myself, as I say, half Vulcan." "I did draw the line, though, at having my ears surgically altered to points." "It was just too expensive." "But I'll tell you the real truth." "I..." "If I had the money, I would do it." "I don't march to the regular drummer." "You would go through the pain of having your ears surgically altered?" "Yeah." "I really would." "And it's not so much..." "Yeah." "I really would." "I like to be different, and this is a unique way of being different, and it's a noninvasive, nonharmful way of being different." "And even if I have pointed ears," "I can still function in the world in whatever I do." "It just makes me that much more different, and I would think in a positive way." "But I don't think I'll be out, you know, getting it tomorrow." "I would hope he couldn't find a doctor who'd be willing to do that, personally." "This is Computer." "This is" " Hi, Computer." "This is my dog." "All the stuff that Star Trek predicted is all coming true." "The talking computers-- I mean, computers are better now than they were in the original series." "There are people that are intrigued by the speculative technology on Star Trek." "You know, my buddies would have Cheryl Tiegs, Freddie Mercury," "Farrah Fawcett posters in their bedroom." "I had the blueprints for the Enterprise." "I started to build this--Nomad." "This is from the episode "The Changeling,"" "where the--it's going to" "The computer robot is going to sterilize the Enterprise and destroy it." "One of my other projects is the Romulan cloaking device." "I've started it here, as you can see." "This is the main power generator unit." "This is the--the round part here of the actual cloaking device, and I think I can modify it just like they did in "The Enterprise Incident."" "I can modify it for use on a Federation ship." "I mean, I've built a lot of stuff, you know," "like a communicator, phaser." "The best one, the one that's the coolest, is the chair that Captain Pike was in after he was crippled from radiation burns." "This is Captain Pike's total life support unit, as you can see." "It encompasses the entire body except for the head, and it supports life and takes him wherever he needs to go." "The beautiful simplicity of the way it works is that you can ask him a yes or no question, kind of like a binary computer, and for yes, it's one blink, and for no, it's two blinks." "So if you ask me any question, I can just answer with a yes or a... no, just like that." "It's motorized, so I drive it around." "I drive it in parades and stuff." "Hi." "Is Craig around?" "I think he set aside some stuff for me, some parts-- an H.P. 12-volt unit and some transistors and a relay." "I talked to Craig about my Nomad project, and he, um, he said I could maybe use the 3.9 ohm resistors or the 270s." "Do you think I could get away with it with the 270s?" "For my next project, I'm going to build a dilithium chamber after I'm done with Nomad, and I'm going to build some antigravs, too, after that." "Maybe an M-5 computer." "And I'm going to connect my house with Jefferies tubes." "I got a lot of projects, like, down the road to do, to build." "Star Trek, I think, has had a lot of impact on the future." "I mean, we have cellular flip phones." "They have nuclear-powered rocket engines already that will I'm sure take us to Mars, and basically, all science fiction now is true." "Star Trek has always been a real fun part of my life." "As a matter of fact, it was one of the big motivators for me going to the Air Force Academy." "It encouraged me to go out and study, and being that Star Trek took place in space, it turned my interest towards things of a space nature, such as astronomy and astrophysics." "As a result, I got both my bachelor's and my master's in astronomy, and I now work as a data analyst for the Hubble Space Telescope Science Institute." "I really liked Spock's mind, his logical mind, and that pushed me into a logical field." "Or at least, it helped push me into a logical field, which is computer science." "It's unbelievable." "Crosby:" "Oh, absolutely." "It has had such an effect, just from an educational angle alone." "Oh, it's--it's affected, I mean, all of us." "All the actors have received so much mail." "I get a lot of mail from parents who tell me," ""We really appreciate what you did because you provided a positive role model for our son."" "I very much support the future that Gene projected as far as an elimination of hunger and elimination of poverty." "I think that Star Trek has a really, really neat message." "The whole infinite diversity in infinite combinations is something that's very attractive to all of us, and it's something that I wish the world would grasp onto as beautifully as the Star Trek fans have." "People of all races, religions, political backgrounds, sizes, shapes, et cetera, are all absolutely equal at a convention, and nobody is ostracized because they're different." "I think that attracts a lot of people because elsewhere in their lives, they don't have that kind of freedom." "Well, this weekend was great because I got to go to the convention and pick up some great stuff at the dealer tables and meet some of my favorite cast members from the series and get their signature and..." "Talking to them, shaking their hand is just the most wonderful thing you can ever imagine." "Well, I also got to meet a lot of other fans very similar to myself, and, uh, they're great, gorgeous people who really know how to place Star Trek in the proper context with the rest of their lives," "and that's a unique gift for fans." "I met a very wonderfully talented lady who was a political cartoonist, an English lady named Sue Coe." "But when she saw Star Trek... it gave her a vision, not of a world, necessarily, that she could live in, but it gave her a vision that-- it gave her an understanding that there were people who were thinking those thoughts," "the people who were making the show." "The reason most of the people I know like Star Trek is it expresses issues that can't normally be expressed in today's society without somebody coming down on you or looking at you funny or hauling you off." "My father grew up in, um, in the Nazi era." "He was in Poland when it was taken over, and because he was a German citizen, or considered German, they were protected." "When they came to the United States, he came to realize that the principles that he grew up with were wrong, and when we watched Star Trek, he would tell me," ""The things that they're doing there is the right thing to think."" "The right things, you know, like treating people like they're equals and treating people with respect." "I would love to believe that everybody can get along in the future." "We struck a note, a chord, with the youth of this country, and particularly those who came back from Vietnam and the hippies." "Plus the fact it came at a very turbulent time when the future of society, the planet, everything was up for grabs." "Nobody knew where we were going." "For the first time, people--on television, people saw themselves... men and women, as equals." "I think I like the hope and the chances it gives people." "Especially gay men and lesbian women, they're living in a world and a society that's not accepting." "There's a dream that one day down the road, there will be acceptance." "I think Gene Roddenberry, at that time, offered a vision of hope and that we would have a future." "Not only did we not annihilate ourselves on this planet, but we are going forth." "What progress!" "With a sense of adventure." "Gene said not only there is going to be a tomorrow, but it's going to be a better, kinder, more gentle world tomorrow." "And he liked to talk about the things that bug us today, which was back in the sixties, and put them in some kind of a disguised form because of course, the network would never let us talk about" "things that were political or war or stuff like this." "We couldn't mention the black/white problem, so you know what happened" "We painted Frank Gorshin half-black and half-white and his adversary was half-white and half-black." "We set them at each other, and it looked so ridiculous up on screen that everybody had to look at it and say, "Hey, we get this."" "I think this is going to be my basic prediction here, that Star Trek will become the blueprint for the 21st century." "The philosophy, the ideals, the prime directive-- they're all going to be a genetic map for a better future, a better tomorrow, for better mankind." "My feeling is that we've had a great time." "We've had 30 years." "There have been tribulations and trials as well as triumphs, but, you know, the consensus is of a very positive nature." "I don't want to be one of those people who's still talking about it 20 years" "Well, it is." "It's 30 years after the fact." "God almighty." "I am one of those people!" "Oh, my God!" "No!" "We would do these conventions." "We'd say," ""Well, it will probably last another couple of years and that'll be it,"" "you know." "10 years later, we're saying, "Well, it'll probably last another couple of years."" "20 years later, we're saying, "Good God, it's going to go on forever."" "I don't think that it will ever die." "I don't think that something like that can ever die." "You've got a phenomenon." "After all, this is our 20th century mythology." "That's big." "I don't know." "I hope it lasts forever." "It's a good thing." "It's--It's, um..." "As long as it's thoughtful, it's a good thing." "And remember, live long and prosper." "Man:" "Good night, everyone." "Good night, all." "God bless." "I want to thank all of you for my stamp," "And I want you to know I'm a Trekkie, too." "I love Star Trek, and all I can say is this..." "Glory,glory,hallelujah" "StarTrek'struth is marching on  itstruthis marching" "Ladies and gentlemen, live long and prosper." "Uh-huh." "On" "Thank you." "Hah!" "Thank you." "I am a big Star Trek fan and got beat up most of my life for being a Star Trek fan, usually by sports fans, which I think is ironic, 'cause, um... someone that's, like, really into football" "will wear the uniform of the game, a jersey, and walk around town, and that's fine." "Yet if I put on my Klingon uniform and go to Safeway," "I'm a big f--king geek, you know." ""Excuse me." "These yams have no honor."" "I love their motto" " We boldly go where no man has gone before." "But when they get there, there's someone waiting for them." "James Kirk as an archaeologist." "Bones!" "You know, there's supposed to be this prime directive, you don't tamper with cultures because you're so advanced." "When you land on their planet, you don't mess with any of their beliefs." "You just get that one thing you need and you beam out." "He didn't pay attention to that at all, man." "He would just burst into their hallway, "Your bible is a lie!" "Everything you believe is wrong." "Run!" "Freak out!" "I'm the bloated God-being from the sky."" "They've always got one minority that gets beamed down that don't come back up." "It's like, "OK." "Jim, Spock, Bones, Scotty... and Rodriguez."" "Rodriguez is dead." "When they get down there, Jim goes, "Rodriguez, check behind that rock." "Regular cast, stand over here... 'cause there's a brain-sucking plant behind the rock."" "We want Rodriguez to say, "Hey, Jim, you check behind that rock." "I lost two cousins on this show last season."" "Remember the old one with the 3 brains in the jars with the gambling problem?" "Remember that? "l bet 400 quatloos on the newcomer."" ""Where are you from?" "Earth."" ""What's the spread on the UCLA game?" "Got a lot of quatloos on that."" "One day you'll have Klingon comics." "Worf as a comic." "[Deep Voice] "Thank you." "It's a pleasure to be here at the first ice house on Klingon." "Remember when you were in school, and your teacher would anger you, forcing you to kill him?"" "[Laughter]" ""My father would be so proud of me, he'd hold my hands in the flames of Roqah."" ""Scotty!" "How are the engines?" "And don't use a metaphor."" ""Aye, sir." "The circuit board is cross-wired" "like a Christmas tree on the Fourth of July."" ""No, Scotty!" "The engines, Scotty." "How are the engines?"" ""Aye." "They're overheated, sir, like a supernova in the middle of August with the windows closed." "No, Scotty, no metaphors!"" ""Can I use a simile, sir?" "No!"" ""An allegory?" "No!"" ""Can I tell an anecdote?" "The Klingons are here!"" "Weinhold:" "Remember Wesley, the little kid?" "14 years old, he's never kissed anyone." "There's a holodeck on the ship." "Now...if I had a holodeck... when I was 14," "I never would have left the thing." "They'd have to send Captain Picard looking for me." ""Where's Weinhold?" "He's in Holodeck One."" "The doors open up, I'm climbing out of a giant --." "[Laughter]" ""It's time you saw Counselor Troi."" ""This is Counselor Troi!""