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We're gonna have a good time.

J“ oh, yeah j“

j“ yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah j“

Ignition sequence
starts, four, three, two, one.

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."

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.

- 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 twe...
Number 48,

- and this is guard number 28.
- That's right.

You have to understand
that... that, uh,

even now, I still have...

I still have an ongoing process

of trying to grasp
all of this, even now.

Uh, name's Douglas marcks.

Um, and 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 '605.

You know, I've been in
this for seven years now,

and it's starting
to become normal.

Thank you, wow.

Thank you all for coming.

Star Trek goes country.

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 kruge.

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 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.
- 20 to 30.

I lost count, you know?

I've been doing this
since 1969, so it's, uh,

almost hate to admit, this is my
366th convention this weekend.

I have attended, over
the course of about eight years,

28 conventions.

I'm gonna 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, uh, the red stripe here.

In the actual movie,

it's gonna 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 gonna 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.

Obviously, someone
never grew out of the 19605.

Yeah, I spent a lot of time
in vans, that's for sure.

We're gonna 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 it. Commander
Barbara Adams.

I'm commanding officer
of the USS 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, um,
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 while looking
into my drawings,

which I do as sort of a hobby.

I studied graphic design
and I enjoy drawing, uh,

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.

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 gonna do?

Why do you keep
wearing the uniform?

What are you gonna 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.

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... in...
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 wanna
look, say what we wanna 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.

While I was in Florida,

Ruth Ann presented me
with this belt buckle

on my 138th birthday.

Now, now then, everything...

Ev... every time I see someone,

they say, you know, "you look
so much younger in person."

The first one that I did,
I think was around '72.

Um, I got a call to
come to New York.

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 York?"

They said they're
willing to pay expenses

and, you know, fly me there
and put me up in a hotel.

Ithoughh
"these people are foolish."

And, there was something like,
I think there were around

three 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... 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.

And then they were

hanging out of the balcony.

It was like a bunch of
overaged Beatles for us,

you know, me being there.

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, uh 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 there.

Could I have a schedule, please?

Ah, majel.
Definitely got to see majel.

She's onstage right now.

She's on the stage now? Ooh.

Think 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.

Okay, 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 intestine head."

And, the other one I heard
is "rocky mountains."

That's the...
That's the latest one.

Here is the opening bid
for this.

$500.

$500.

We've got a $500 bid,
and it's there to a klingon.

I'll go 550.

- 550.
- Six.

- Six, 600.
- Six.

600. Do I hear 650?

- 650.
- 650.

1,000!

$1,000!

$1,000.

1,100.

$1,100.

$1,200!

What? 1,200?

- Yeah.
- 1,200?

Okay, $1,200. $1,200.

- 13.
- $1,300.

- 14.
- 14.

$1,400.

Going once.

$1,400, going twice.

$1,400 sold at a bargain!

Qapla', man.

Qapla. I

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, yes.

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.

It's... they're definitely
one-of-a-kind items.

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

is literally could...

Could run into
the millions if there was,

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.

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... he went up on stage and

and did a 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... 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,
you don't want to drink this.

He's very sick. I mean,
he's very, very ill."

"Oh, no, no. Oh, no. I want to
drink it. I want to drink it."

And he just, he 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,
His thing.

I was walking down
the street in New York,

and I caught somebody
coming towards me.

He said, "are you q?"
And I said, "yeah."

"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,

uh, “what's it feel
like to be beamed?"

20 years later, he was at
a convention in New York,

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.

There was one gentleman who,
for about te... what? 10 years?

Almost the whole run.

Almost the whole run of...
Of since the beginning

of the next generation,

has been sending something
in the mail every day

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 travel

where he travels or
sometimes he descri...

Well, look at this one.

We've got a Victoria's secret
catalog that he sent.

Something about a mission.

A... 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.

All right, go please.

That can be seen?

Exactly.
Okay, here we go, please.

- Rolling.
- Marker.

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.

There was a young man who
was confined to a wheelchair,

and his name was
Jordan la forge.

The young man was given
six 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.

Um, 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.

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 that just a casual,

"I enjoy the show,
I enjoy the concept."

It's... 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.

Although you do
notice it's spilling out

into the other
areas of the house.

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 three
hand-painted trek tiles,

the planets, the enterprise,
and one of the enemy.

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, "can we..."

Ask 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.

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.

We're here in Orlando, Florida,

at the dental offices of
Dr. Denis bourguignon.

- Good morning.
- Good morning.

How are you?

Pleasure to see you.
Good to see you.

Welcome to star base dental.

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

dentistr... uh, dentistry or
dentists as good-doers.

So, um, this is reception.

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 I give 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."

"You thinking
what I'm thinking?"

And we said, "let's try it."

Two weeks later,

we just closed down
the office over the weekend,

and we bought up everything
we could find, and... 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.

No, wait, there's
a finger missing!

- I never knew that.
- A gardening accident.

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, uh,
what's gonna be around.

They bring something
different in all the time.

Every morning you
come in, you wonder,

"well, what's gonna
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.

And you just...
How long did it...

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.

- 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... 0ur...

- Relationship, yeah.
- Yeah, it does.

Almost like going out
with different people.

- 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.

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 just... 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.

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...

Good afternoon, Preston.
How you doing?

- Hey, denis, how are ya?
- Good to see you, come on back.

Let's go ahead and
get you going here.

Okay.

All right, take a look here.

Number two, occlusal lingual.

Number three crown.

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, 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.

Kind of character-developed
it a little bit.

Um, instead of it being him,
it's his wife.

So what is your interest in,
uh, in Star Trek?

Mainly Brent, Brent spiner.

Lieutenant commander data on
the next generation,

as you well know.

Yes, I know him well.

Now, you guys call yourself...

Spiner femmes.

Spiner femmes. Yes.

- Spiner femmes?
- Uh-huh.

- 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 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...

It goes on for days.

I... 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.

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?

I mean, I... I tried to express
that we do okay, you know,

and that they should really,
you know, save their money.

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,

and 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.

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.

Could you explain that?

Well, actually I could
give you an example.

Perfect.

Episode of original series
called "space seed,"

which was the launching
for the second movie,

the wrath of Khan.

There is a song. Um.

The song is called
"vow of vengeance."

It's Khan's vow.

Let's... let's see.

J“ the summer sunlight j“

j“ the howling at night j“

j“ the blood of friends spilled j“

j“ I'll meet some quick death j”

j“ she breathes her last breath j'

j“ and dies
as I cling to her hand j'

j“ mere mortals you be j“

j“ the truth you can see j“

j“ you think you have right but j“

It's been a while
since I've sung it.

J“ you think j“

no.

Action!

An alliance with the borg?

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 gonna 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,

“I forget the body
that I am imprisoned in."

I got a fan letter
from a young lady.

It was a suicide note.

So I, u, 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.

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...

And then that went on
for two or three years,

maybe 18 times,
and all I did was talk

positive things to her.

And then
all of a sudden, nothing.

I didn't hear anything,

and I had no idea
what was happening to her

because I really never
saved her address, right?

Eight years later,
I get a letter

saying, "I 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.

Over a period of several years,

we've raised several hundred
thousand dollars

for these three 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!

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."

And what do you want
to do when you grow up?

Be a 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 nine years old,

eight years old,
when Star Trek first came on,

and one of them
told me years later,

"I 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!"'

And she said,
"I 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.

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.

- Mm-hm.
- 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."

- Anything.
- 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 seven years ago.

- And we're still on!
- And we're still

on the air!

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.

A convention on the air.

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 gonna have
a good time tonight.

We have a very special guest
with us.

- Yes.
- Denise Crosby.

Denise Crosby!

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!
- Yes, hi, you guys.

- Okay, how are you?
- Hi, Denise.

Hi, John.

One thing I 'd like to say is
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 that

I... I had to die
and get off the show

to get the best episode.

I love just being able
to talk to you like this

because when
the show originally aired,

my father passed away.

- Mm. 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... 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.

Thank you for being with us,
my friend.

There's nothing like
a bunch of trek people

getting together some place
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.

So what does
your bathtub look like

- at the end of the day?
- It looks very green.

Trust me on that.

Who is your favorite captain?

Ah, it'd have to be
captain kirk.

Captain picard.

Oh, 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 gonna beat captain kirk?

Come on, come on! He's a stud!

- I can only say janeway.
- Janeway's a stud, too, but...

- Janeway.
- Janeway.

I'd probably say split
between janeway and kirk.

- Kirk.
- I like Avery Brooks, too,

but that's 'cause he's cute.

Who's your favorite captain?

I am.

I couldn't pick one captain
over another.

The emissary!

- The emissary!
- The emissary is different.

We 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... 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 mit

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? Uh.

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," um,

and there are some people
who fit that category,

who are the people who really
do need to get a life, um,

but most fans are pretty normal
people who have a hobby,

who have a sense of
the desire to escape,

and you know,
they know it's a show,

and nobody really gets lost
in it, but it's just fun.

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... 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 two and
a half 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.

The klingon language camp

is something that we've been

having for the last four years.

It's a summer program
for people to learn

the language and
customs of the culture.

- Tlhlngan hol.
- Tlhlngan hol.

Tlhlngan hol dajatlh'a'?

Tlhlngan 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!

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 '5 island.

Klingons are really popular.

Klingons are very popular.

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.

I want to get the sour
cream and chives potato.

Would you like cheese
on the super star or without?

- Without.
- Without cheese?

This combo?

Okay, would you like that
supersized for 39 cents more?

It's got a large fries
and large drink.

- $9.56.
- 16 to go, please, 16!

Have you ever served
a klingon before?

- You've served klingons before?
- Yes.

When I was six years old,
January of 1989,

I attended my first convention,

and here is a picture from it.

One day, I was at home,

and I get a phone call,

and Gabriel at the time
was six 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.

So, 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 six years old.

Yeah, I was supposed to be
wearing my plaid pants and tie.

Another interesting
thing that...

Oh, for god's sakes!

- I'll get that, I'll get that.
- You're the one...

Peter, this is the worst time
you could have called!

Go away!

Okay, bye.

Around this entire section here,

we have my collection of

autographed Star Trek
action figures,

and over here I have the
collection of the four 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.

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.

J“ it's a beautiful day j“

j“ ooh, we'll fly away I

j“ it's a beautiful day j“

the Mark and Brian
radio program, 95.5 klos.

All right, now, there is a, um,

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.

There we go.

I'm a little dizzy now.

All right, we'll take
a commercial break and return.

Do you have a favorite episode?

The original?

- Uh, well, of course...
- The original.

- Okay.
- 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.

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.

- Per your approval.
- There's yours.

Now...

They're still... still in process.

Now you have to decide which one
you're going to wear tomorrow.

It will be a tough choice.

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 'ii 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.

I go out a lot of
times in the uniform,

and I find it
a pretty positive thing.

Sometimes I 'ii 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 gonna 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.

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.

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 three to 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 the convention?

These are from huntsville.

Huntsville, that's the only
place you can get these, huh?

Yeah. 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?

Um, I... I'm on the Internet.

I'm keeping those for myself.

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,

loving 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 '705.

The 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.

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.

Tell me about the passport.

It looks like a us passport,

but obviously it says
united federations of...

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...

Us immigration.

February 7th, 1994,
they stamped me in.

Coming is Jimmy doohan's,
Scotty's director's chair.

It's, uh, my wife is flying in
with that today, and...

And that'll be for sale?

Yes, 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'm not... I don't think
the voyager is supposed

to have saucer sep capability.

I became a dealer 'cause
when I was younger,

I read a few too many
conan books,

and I started to get interested
in swords and armor,

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 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 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 five years

of the Star Trek characters.

This is gonna 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.

A lot of people
do think she's strange,

and they'll say,
"what kind of person is she,

you know, 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.

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...
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?

23 by 35.

- Okay.
- Yeah.

- Thank you.
- Mm-hmm.

- Commander.
- Yes?

Which job is that?

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, "well, 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.

Did she explain
what these things were

that she was wearing?

Yes, 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, 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 gotta tell you,
I was actually shocked,

and then I kind of really
have grown to appreciate it.

What was weird to me
when I first... 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...

Are you... 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 en... 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 janewa y.

This is a story about
mistress janeway

and how she ties up ensign Kim

and beats tuvok
with a riding crop.

That was quite...
That was rather interesting.

A fan made this.

He sculpted it out of
an X-Men figure, repainted it,

complete with a whip,
cat-o'-nine-tails, handcuffs.

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."

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.

There's... 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
he'll watch television.

Some cats will sit there
and watch television. Um.

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 four 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.

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 some place,
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.
I t'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.

We belong to two
international fan clubs,

the united federation
of planets international

and the romulan star empire.

I am Linda Thuringer.

I'm 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.

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, um,

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' jih.

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 '705.

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 gonna take a trek?

We're not a couple
of trekkies, right?

- Right.
- Then we're watching the trek.

But the trekker,
then, is coming with us.

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, you know, 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. Um.

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,
you know, my character.

I've had a lot of ridicule,
but I've had a lot of positive.

A lot of people go,

"I wish I had the guts
to do something like that

or... or just...

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 three,
to maybe 6,000 people to town.

We have a parade,
a carnival, a contest.

It's just... just really
a boon to the town.

- Jimmy, my boy, Jimmy!
- Happy birthday!

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.

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.

You know, I like the vulcan.

The vulcan's
a very logical person.

T hat'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 bit smarter than
the klingons as well.

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, uh,

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.

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.

I'm visiting vulcan today

because of
the Star Trek convention.

Obviously,
it's a vulcan community.

My heroes are Spock and
t uvok and Spock's father.

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 York,

and I felt a pair of hands
on my shoulder.

And, um, somebody whispered
into my ear and said,

"I recognize you.
You had your ears fixed.“

and it was John Wayne.

Everybody was doing
ear jokes in those days.

Oh, god.

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... I'll tell you
the real truth.

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 s... your ears

- surgically altered?
- Yeah, I really would.

And it's not so much...

Yeah, I really would.

- I... I like to be different.
- Mm-hm.

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, 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,"

um, where the, it's gonna...

The computer robot
is gonna 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 to use... 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.

Well 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 HP 12-volt unit and
some transistors and a relay.

I talked to Craig about
my nomad project,

and he, he said
I could maybe use

the 3.9 ohm resistors
or the 2705.

Do you think I could get away
with the... with the 2705?

For my next project, I'm gonna
build a dilithium chamber

after I'm done with nomad,

and I'm gonna build some
antigravs, too, after that.

Maybe an m-5 computer.

And I'm gonna 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'5 unbelievable.
- 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,

uh, political backgrounds,
sizes, shapes, et cetera,

are all absolutely equal
at a convention,

and nobody is ostracized
because they're different.

And 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, they're... 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, uh,

who was a political cartoonist,

an English lady named sue coe.

But when she saw Star Trek,

it... 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... 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 that 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, uh, living
in a world and a society

that's not accepting.

There's a dream that
one day... 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 '605,

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.

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 215t century.

The philosophy, the ideals,
the prime directive,

they're all gonna be...
It'll all be a genetic map

to a... for a better future,

a better tomorrow,
for better mankind.

My feeling is that our...
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 gonna 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'5... it's...

As long as it's thoughtful,
it's a good thing.

And remember,
live long and prosper.

- Goodnight, everyone.
- Goodnight, all,

- god bless.
- Goodnight.

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.

J“ glory, glory, hallelujah j“

j“ Star Trek's truth
is marching on j“

j“ its truth is marching j“

ladies and gentlemen,
live long and prosper.

Uh-huh.

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, 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 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, "okay. 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 don't 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 three brains in the jars

with the gambling problem?
Remember that?

"I 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.

"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?"

"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!"

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.

"It's time you saw
counselor troi."

"This is counselor troi!"