Another one of those days where I drive home with a million things on my mind and so I don't even want to begin to babble on. I came home from work and watched Trekkies and Trekkies 2 on Showtime. WOW. I was scared by some of these people. Denise "I Quit" Crosby hosted these documentaries about Star Trek fans and the conventions. It's funny because I have always loved Science Fiction and grew up watching the Star Trek reruns. I may even have my old posters of Spock and the Enterprise. But these people really are scary. Harmless, but scary. blah blah, we all have our hobbies and such, but c'mon. I am impressed by how much effort some of these people put into their love of Star Trek. And it really is cool in a way that the conventions and such have lasted so damn long.
I think what may be more sad is people like Denise Crosby and Michelle Forbes who made the great career decisions to quit Star Trek. I have so much respect for actors who have the brains to milk something for years and make money at it. Hopefully they do it well and the shows are still fun to watch, like the Simpsons. anyway, so these movies are interesting at their look at how much people get into Star Trek. The worst part is the people who try and justify their love of it, by talking about how smart it is and how its about science and such. Granted my love for Mr. Spock influenced me in some ways, but I am not going to say more than I enjoy Star Trek and leave it at that. It's fiction and many of their stories have deeper meaning, etc. but it's also fantasy. A few months ago our CEO was whistling the theme song to the XFiles and he asked me if they still made them. Uh, no it's been a long time since it was cancelled...For some reason he asked this question two more times, as though I was either lying or mistaken. He told me he recently watched season 4 on DVD. Yah thanks, for not running the company while you watch tv, asshole. Then he asked me if they still made Stargate. The inner geek in me woke up and said oh sure, in fact they are heading into their ninth season, and they have a spin off, Stargate Atlantis, which is more serious... He cut me off to tell me he doesn't like spin offs. Which is funny because I never knew him to have any principles he would stick to. He then proceeded to tell me how much he enjoyed Stargate because it was "Smart and the science is good." Now I love the show, it's fun and very entertaining. But I will never justify it by saying it's smart or some such shit. Anyway, so I told him about Battlestar Galactica and how they made a new one and he should watch it because it rocks. By this time our General Manager walked out of his office to see what in the hell we were talking about. A few other people walked by and gave me an odd look that also told me they were freaked out that the CEO and I were talking about Stargate. Hell even I knew how odd it must have looked. Two of my friends were in the GM's office and overheard this exchange. They told me that they looked at each other and both were like "WTF?" So now I just joke with them that on Fridays the president and I hang out and watch Stargate.
It just goes to show you, something. I don't know what, but I suppose it must. I was going with a whole thing on why he would justify watching it, or how things like that bring people together. But I think it just proves what a geek I may be.