HI MY NAME IS SP@M AND I AM A STAR TREK GEEK AND THIS IS MY PUBLIC CONFESSION
I remember many years ago (approx 10-11 years) when I was still living at home with my parents, I was a PA by day and a Barmaid by night, I was pretty normal for an 18-19 year old but I had an evening ritual. On the nights I wasn't working in the pub I would religiously make myself a cup of hot chocolate and put 3 maryland cookies on a plate, snuggle up in my bed and watch Star Trek the next generation on Sky one at 11pm. It didn't even worry me that I had a secret crush on Wesley Crusher or that I knew what a deflector shield was, because I never told anyone, it was my favourite time of day and I hated missing any of it.

A year or so later I met Mr Sp@m, he was a customer in the pub I worked in, and in time I left my home to move in here and my nightly ritual was replaced with washing ironing and eventually mothers duties. I often looked back fondly to those nights when I would snuggle up under my toasty warm duvet and I felt always felt like something was missing in my life.

Life went on until mid 2007 and I went to a family BBQ and got chatting to my uncle about star trek, not revealing the extent of my previous obsession I nodded my head and mumbled something about how I used to watch it, roll to his 60th in November and my dad announces that he's has bought said uncle every episode of the original series on DVD, feeling secretly envious I began to hide away on the PC when no-one was about, looking for TNG episodes on the PC and failing.

Then, one night a few weeks later I am sat in bed flicking through the late night crap that is Little Britain and Catherine Tate, I press the up channel on the remote and pass the sci-fi channel. OH MY GOD STAR TREK IS ON, NOT ONLY THAT IT'S ON AT 11pm - I felt equal amounts of joy to that of seeing my child take their first step. Not only was it on Sci-fi at 11pm every night, I had caught it at the start, the very first episode (encounter at farpoint for those in the know). I promptly ran downstairs put the kettle on and grabbed the biscuit tin, but I had to make do with bourbons as up until then I felt that eating maryland cookies without start trek was a betrayal.

Snuggled up under my duvet with my biscuits and hot chocolate I felt whole again, the next time I went shopping I stocked up on cookies and resumed my ritual, only now it's better, because if I miss it it doesn't matter I have the technology that is sky plus.
Christmas came around and Mr Sp@m asked me what I wanted, I didn't know what I wanted (well I did but I wasn't about to admit it to him) but I had a cunning plan. When he had gone to work, I went on his amazon account and searched for star trek box sets, knowing that it would show up on the list of previously viewed items. My plan worked, Christmas morning I saw I box with "To Sam, lots of love, Mark" on it. I was itching to rip that paper off, but family tradition states that I cannot do this until it is handed to me by my dad and he's read the tag out and all the family including my two sisters and their children all have their eyes on me. I sit trying to decide how to react when I open it, do I go "ohhhhh yay star trek, thanks love" or do I show excited I really am? I chose the former and decide to go down the "im so cool" route. I fail miserably, I rip the paper off and see it's not only a box set but a collectors one, with every single episode and something like 3 hours of special features. I scream I jump up and down and kiss mr sp@m all over the face. The blank looks on everyones faces says it all. I am a geek, I am THE family geek. They have all lost their respect for me. But I don't care I have 178 episodes of star trek.

My youngest started at nursery in January and my afternoons were not taken up by washing or ironing, I was watching star trek. By the end of February I had watched it all, every single episode, except the last one. I can't bring myself to watch it, because when I do it's over , finished, gone, and I will feel empty again. So I bought myself Voyager season one and I am being good this time I am limiting myself to one episode a night, at 11pm with my duvet, hot chocolate and maryland cookies.
( Mrs.Sp@m, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 9:12, 12 replies)

Aww,
that made me smile right the way through. :)
(Belgaer is, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 9:20, closed)

Awwwww Sp@m
You're ace you are!
( jim_bob can herd cats., Fri 7 Mar 2008, 9:24, closed)

That was lovely

Voyager is good, avoid enterprise like the scabby bag of shite it is

Babylon 5 is worth a look though ;)
(sittingduck Attention seeking, bullshitting fuck-knuckle, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 10:03, closed)

I like Voyager
I watched an episode of Enterprise the other day and wasn't impressed, for starters the theme tune is bollocks. Not Star Trekky at all, no trumpets or violins or whooshing sounds. Even DS9 managed to make a whooshing sound coming from the wormhole.
( Mrs.Sp@m, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 10:06, closed)

Im currently watching through all the Voyagers.
They are fantastic. Never really got into any of the other star trek series but Voyager kicks ass. Currently about 4 episodes from the end of series 3. I can smell borg.
(Miggyman, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 11:04, closed)

I'm worse.
I used to have the blueprints for the original Enterprise on my bedroom wall. But in my defense, at the time I was 13...
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Fri 7 Mar 2008, 12:54, closed)

LOL
Me and the other half are currently doing the same with TNG on Bravo at 11pm every night with cheese on toast.

If your family ever disown you, you can come to ours for xmas as long as you promise to bring your box set. I've always wanted all 178 episodes. I currently have seasons 1-3, and dropping heavy hints about the rest.

Oh yeah. Voyager rocks too.
(MadBouncyDog Barking at the moon since, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 22:57, closed)

ooohhhh...you have all 178 episodes and Voyager too...
I'm so jealous.
( flirting with badgers What? It sounded good at the time., Sat 8 Mar 2008, 4:38, closed)

Ohhhh Christmas day spent watching Star Trek - it sounds like heaven
Good to know I am not the only trekky here.
( Mrs.Sp@m, Sat 8 Mar 2008, 15:19, closed)

That was a lovely read
And in honour of your story, i am off to duvetland for series 3 of Red Dwarf on DVD
( ogwen69 has returned from Reddit, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 1:24, closed)

I feel mildly hurt...
.. at how much flack Enterprise actually gets, I think it's brilliant. Up until perhaps the last series. When a certain character died... I was heartbroken.


Lovely story though, being a fellow Spam (gf's nickname for me...) and secret Trekky... I was truly touched by this. I think I'm putting TNG on my Xmas list. *click*
(RizzJizz doesn't do life., Sun 9 Mar 2008, 20:06, closed)

I love it
"But I don't care I have 178 episodes of star trek"

Comedy gold mate, comedy gold.
(theweapon never ever bloody anything ever, Mon 10 Mar 2008, 1:33, closed)