Introduction

Firstly, I realize that the term "Trekkie" is supposed to be the derogatory form of "Trekker"  but I've decided that we're taking it back. Maybe "Trekkie" can refer to female fans of Star Trek, and then the guys can have "Trekker" all to themselves. Whatever. We're taking it back, and that's final.

I guess I've always been a Trekkie. It wasn't a choice. Believe me, I denied it for many years, before I finally embraced my true nature. I think my family always knew on some level. But this is who I am, and who I was always meant to be.

It's hard for me to pinpoint the defining moment when I decided to come out of the turbolift, and claim my place in the geek world. It might have been in 1991, going to a Star Trek movie with my dad and hearing someone whisper "There's a GIRL in here!" Or possibly, the paper I wrote in college about "The Women of Star Trek" was what pushed me over the edge. (The only "A" I got in college.) I think about the woman I worked with, who proclaimed she liked the new Star Trek movie with the qualifying "even though I'm a girl" statement. Most people would say it was when I lost my mind in "The Star Trek Experience" in Vegas during my honeymoon, but really, it started long before that. That was just the first clue my husband* had that he was now married to a geek.

Regardless, I'm "out" now, after hiding it for most of my life, and ready to blog about life as a Trekkie, a geek, or whatever you want to call me. Whatever I am, I know I'm not alone, and I know I'm not the only woman who has been afraid to shout out loud "I am a geek!" So, while this blog was started for every person who has told me "You should write a book," I'd like to offer it as a gift to everyone who has been afraid of what people might think of them. I'm not sure how this will evolve, but I'd like to offer the same thing that I have found by watching Star Trek: hope for the future. Or, maybe I just want to write stories that I think are cute and clever. At the very least,instead of telling the "Star Trek Experience" story for the ump-teenth time, I can just tell everyone to "go to my blog."

And don't worry, I'm pretty sure my blog won't be ALL about Star Trek. I like Joss Whedon too. :)

Let your geek flag fly!


*My husband has requested that I not mention him in my blog. However, since most of my recent stories revolve around his non-geek reactions, we have reached a compromise, and he will only be referred to by his Borg designation, which is "Three of Eight."