Other help me

[pastwatcher]

I'm visiting Nora and her mother in Montana at the moment, and yesterday we wondered briefly--but, I think, seriously--if people would start adopting the Vulcan salute instead of the handshake in order to slow down disease-spreading.

Yeah. Meeep, my poor skewed perspective. (Well, who knows, maybe the Obama-is-a-Vulcan idea *will* bring it about!)

We've been watching at least one Star Trek episode a day, and I've read "Spock's World" by Diane Duane (wow, not a Wizard book, for the most part quite good though), not to mention fanfiction (the good ones often beat the show)...help! I continue to like the acting a lot--I love the characters!--and love to make fun of the effects and the plastic boulder and so on. My addiction all started with the new movie this spring, and so did Nora's, and I hadn't seen much of the original series before that.

I know I raise my eyebrow sometimes, but if I do it too often, or I do one and then both (not a meaningful expression on me, yet), or God forbid I start thinking about dressing up in Starfleet uniform, someone, please pull me back to reality. Of course I admire Trekkies' invention and the consistency fans and later writers have managed to give to the canon, but I am alarmed by my own possible rate of adoption of fannish behavior. I already find myself wanting an IDIC pendant, and maybe a "What would Spock do?" T-shirt, though the former is also pretty. Actually I think it would be quite amusing and maybe effective if Star Trek were to start a "Dear Spock" column, or "Dear [Vulcan]", it'd produce better advice than "Dear Abby". And the first movie is terrible and I riff it but I'm too attached to want to see it destroyed. ([filler] /Oh no! It's moving so fast the Doppler effects are producing music!/ /Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to the fourth Screensaver Concert of the movie.../
"How do you define 'unwarranted'?" /You need an extra-special warrant to search a cloud!/)

I mean, this is fun and the personalities really are appealing. I also really like the philosophies that are avant-garde in many ways. But I want to keep the rest of my life, thank you very much, and quit worrying about whether T'Khut counts as a moon for Vulcan. I don't like seeing my behavior so easily influenced by addiction.

...comments? Does this surprise you?

Comments

[reversepolarity.livejournal.com]

...fascinating.

(Sorry, I couldn't resist ^_^)

[silkspinner.livejournal.com]

Relax. You've got a new shiny to be interested in right now, and it's normal to want to think about it a lot, but there are lots of shinies in the world, and eventually this one will go from monopolizing your attention to joining the ranks of things that enrich your worldview and give you interesting things to think about. Take it from someone with her own Starfleet uniform. :-)