You picked the worst possible time to call!

[vovat]

I'm not sure how much longer I can stand this heat. It was even hot in the middle of the night.

Anyway, last night, bethje, her cousin Dorothea, and I went out to eat at Bob Evans, where our waitress barely paid us any attention at all until after our food was ready. She seemed like she might have been sick or something, which makes me wonder why she was working that day at all. I had the spaghetti and meatballs, which came with garlic bread. I sometimes think everything should come with garlic bread.

After eating, we went back to Beth's house and watched old videos that had young Beth and Dorothea in them. They were cute children. {g} Then, after Dorothea left, Beth and I watched Trekkies 2. It was pretty interesting, but not as good as the first one. This time, people from around the world were interviewed. They talked about the first Star Trek Convention in the Balkans. They also got back in touch with some people from the first one, including Gabriel Köerner, the guy who had mispronounced words like "debacle" and "plethora." He's now married and working as a digital artist, and he says the mispronunciations were because he'd only seen the words written out. Fair enough, I suppose. He's also directing a fan film, as were several other people interviewed in the documentary. Some of them put a lot of effort into creating sets and such. There was also some significant emphasis on Trek-related music, including filk singing and rock bands. There was also quite a bit on when Trek fandom goes too far, to which pretty much everyone had a different answer.

I've never really been into Star Trek myself. I mean, I'm okay with it. I've seen more than half of the movies and various episodes from different series, and I've generally enjoyed them. I can hear stuff about Trek without being totally lost, but I can't really talk about it in depth. I do sometimes wonder if I'm just as obsessed with Oz as some of these people are with Star Trek, though. I mean, I've dressed up as characters for Oz conventions and everything. I guess it doesn't impact my everyday life as much, though.

I'd probably go to a Star Trek convention at some point. I tend to enjoy the whole convention thing in general. I've been to several Oz conventions, plus three Monster-Mania Conventions (four by the end of this month), and a comic book convention. They've all been fun, and I wouldn't mind going to more.

I had two dreams last night that I wanted to write about. The first was where Beth and I discovered an abandoned town near where she lives, and it was called "Emptyville," or something of the sort. The second involved some movie about a couple who got married shortly after meeting, and they worked on some kind of farm where there was a giant pane of glass that they had to climb and clean. There were giant bottles of soda involved, and there was apparently a scene where the woman went to the grocery store topless.

Comments

[jenhime.livejournal.com]

I didn't realize that the first Trekkies movie was popular enough for them to make a second... o_O

[loz]

Star Trek and I are old friends (actually, I can't remember any single episode from the original series and spent a lot of time whinging about Ds9, Voyager and the horror *but potential brilliance* that was Enterprise, but I still feel an affinity with it).

My Star Trek fan tendencies are stronger than my Star Wars fan tendencies but significantly lower than, say, Futurama, Angel or other things which take my whimsy. Having said that, the Trek centred episodes of Futurama were adored by me.


I hate hot nights. Guh.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

I don't think I ever actually saw an episode of Enterprise. It seems like the common opinion of people who did watch it is that it was a good idea that wasn't executed that well, though.

[loz]

It was a good idea that they proposed and never, ever followed up. It had actors, it had acting, it had characters. The plots were...

Oh this could go on for hours so I'll stop right here.