There I was, in my local Star Bucks, with my Chanel sunglasses in my hair, drinking a non-fat Valencia orange latte, typing away on my Vaio. Nothing was out of the ordinary this partly cloudy morning as two guys a few meters away from my table laughingly asked me if I watched Star Trek. I smiled and said sure. 'What race is Spock?' he continued and after two and a half seconds thinking, I replied 'Vulcan'. I knew my Star Trek facts, this was an easy one.
They both laughed and it turned out that he was teasing the other one because of his spiky ears and I jokingly agreed that he looked a bit like a vulcan. Although this is totally speculatory, I assumed that they had just picked me because I was there (there were only about 5 other people in the shop) and seemed approachable, NOT because I looked geeky with my laptop and surely would know about Star Trek. I actually know embarrassingly much about Star Trek; although the Next Generation is my favorite series and Voyager and Enterprise share a second, I have even picked up a lot from the Old Series through just chatting with other Trekkies. So of course I know who Spock is. And although I will have to give up my Star Trek and Sushi Wednesdays when I go back to Denmark, I will keep on liking the Star Trek world just as much as I always have.
Posted by Louise at March 26, 2004 11:49 AM