Just spent a very enjoyable couple of hours talking to @BridgetPhetasy (on a Twitter break for Lent) on my podcast, #TwoForTea. Among other topics, we discussed addiction & addictive behaviours & I realised that—every cloud has a silver lining—that’s how it became a Trekkie.
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I not it! That’s what comes of squinting at my phone through bifocals. But, one miserable winter in London, every night my then husband & I, as soon as we were both home from work, would get into our pyjamas, pour ourselves the first of many gin & tonics with a generous hand,
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put out a pantagruelian bowl of Bombay mix, & watched episode after episode of Deep Space Nine on DVD. I wanted the real world to disintegrate. I ached with longing to leap inside the TV. I’ve never been the entrepreneurial type, always I’m happiest when I’m clear about my duties
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when I have my instructions. I longed to be in Starfleet. I would have been happy to clean the plasma manifolds & drink bad Rajtaccino from a malfunctioning replicator, to hand O’Brien the spanners or count the vats of yamak sauce in the cargo bay.
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I crushed on Bashir—not Alexander Siddig the actor but Bashir—as if he were a real person. It hurt me that that world didn’t exist. I’ve since discovered that two close friends of mine, separately, discovered Star Trek after binging on DS9 during a major depression.
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I watched—and loved—Next Generation as a teen & crushed on the suave Patrick Stewart and on Data, the android with such innocent curiosity and hunger for life. But it was this binge session of DS9 that imprinted the Trek universe on my soul.
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How did you become a Trekkie?
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My childhood friend had every ST episode, and we’d watch a few before heading into his garden to re-enact the starship battles. We’d build ships out of wheelbarrows, pallets, and crates. We’d open hailing frequencies, engage in brief diplomacy, then begin hurling “photon” apples.
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Replying to @G_S_Bhogal @IonaItalia and
In time, I grew out of the space battles, but by then I’d grown to love the characters, and realised that Star Trek was not about aliens but people. That was when I started to appreciate the politics and philosophy that underpinned the series.
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Replying to @G_S_Bhogal @IonaItalia and
Beautiful. Makes me want to watch it.
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