I'm excited and scared at the same time.
I wish I could find this old photo I have of myself back when I worked. Our office had an annual Halloween contest, and each team got to dress up their whole area. We did TOS. The guy in the cubical next to mine was also a huge fan, and happened to looks like a short James Dohan, so he went as Scotty, and he built a transporter down on our end (circles of plexiglass you could stand on that set off some flashlights behind colored celphane). It looked really cool. He also made a little dilithium chamber, I loaned him some large hunks of quarts, and another small flashlight.
I took 4 refrigerator boxes and spray painted them all grey, cut them up and and built the bridge outside our team leaders office. There were all the upper displays with xmas lights, and the lower display panels as well as the science station. We also created a little rec room, with a tridimensional chess board I built, some blue water in a decanter and some trippy win glasses for the Romulan ale, and a few other things like round cards.
We also had one whole cubicle filled with tribbles (which were also here and there all over), and music playing through our whole area. It was tons of fun. Every single team member dressed up, we had crew members and romulans and one guy even dressed up quite accurately as Harry Mudd. We won first prize, dinner out at McMenamins for the whole team, including drinks!
Anywho, I've also been to a couple of conventions (I own a collectors plate of Data signed by Brent Spiner who I actually got to talk to for about 3 seconds!), and I STILL have a TOS uniform in the "dress up" area of my closet. I even have boots for it....
I bought the collectors edition of Time when Nimoy died. My husband teases me because it is still sitting on my nightstand. I will put it away eventually.
So to say I'm a fan is, perhaps, an understatement. I am not, however, pissed about the new movies or the alternate universe. I am open to new interpretations, as long as they don't suck ass. I tried to get into Enterprise, but failed. I managed to watch most of Voyager, but that pretty much took everything I had.
So yeah, I'm excited, but also scared.
I wish I could find this old photo I have of myself back when I worked. Our office had an annual Halloween contest, and each team got to dress up their whole area. We did TOS. The guy in the cubical next to mine was also a huge fan, and happened to looks like a short James Dohan, so he went as Scotty, and he built a transporter down on our end (circles of plexiglass you could stand on that set off some flashlights behind colored celphane). It looked really cool. He also made a little dilithium chamber, I loaned him some large hunks of quarts, and another small flashlight.
I took 4 refrigerator boxes and spray painted them all grey, cut them up and and built the bridge outside our team leaders office. There were all the upper displays with xmas lights, and the lower display panels as well as the science station. We also created a little rec room, with a tridimensional chess board I built, some blue water in a decanter and some trippy win glasses for the Romulan ale, and a few other things like round cards.
We also had one whole cubicle filled with tribbles (which were also here and there all over), and music playing through our whole area. It was tons of fun. Every single team member dressed up, we had crew members and romulans and one guy even dressed up quite accurately as Harry Mudd. We won first prize, dinner out at McMenamins for the whole team, including drinks!
Anywho, I've also been to a couple of conventions (I own a collectors plate of Data signed by Brent Spiner who I actually got to talk to for about 3 seconds!), and I STILL have a TOS uniform in the "dress up" area of my closet. I even have boots for it....
I bought the collectors edition of Time when Nimoy died. My husband teases me because it is still sitting on my nightstand. I will put it away eventually.
So to say I'm a fan is, perhaps, an understatement. I am not, however, pissed about the new movies or the alternate universe. I am open to new interpretations, as long as they don't suck ass. I tried to get into Enterprise, but failed. I managed to watch most of Voyager, but that pretty much took everything I had.
So yeah, I'm excited, but also scared.
“Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
