Seeking out new life and new civilizations

Yes, that was a Star Trek reference. We LOVE Star Trek!

The characters, the missions, the discussions, the romance, the action, the adventure, the moral dilemmas, so intriguing! I had only seen a few minutes of one TNG episode when I was ten. I thought Trek was only for nerds and geeks. But my honey grew up watching it. His dad and brothers like it too, but we like it the most. In fact, come to think of it, we are the biggest Star Trek fans I know. ha! I dream about it often, I dream I am in the Star Trek world, it feels so real.
We have watched every single episode in order except for the last season of The Original Series. To those of you that have only seen the newer Star Trek movies with Christopher Pine, you are missing out! The newer movies are set in an alternate universe, and the cinematography, the cast, the characters, the stories are not even close to being as deep and thought-provoking as most of the television show episodes. Most recently, we have been re-watching "Enterprise".

Which aired in 2001-2005, it's the most recent Star Trek tv show. We have even started showing some of the episodes to the kids, it's TV-PG.
Oh, yeah and we like to dress our kids up like Spock.

In April we have tickets to Salt Lake Comic-Con, which will have most of the Star Trek: The Next Genergation Cast! http://saltlakecomiccon.com/project_category/star-trek-the-next-generation/
 cool! Don't worry, tons of nerdy/geeky pics coming.
One last confession. Yes, we named one of our kids after a Star Trek character, Wesley Crusher.

Engage.

We are sooooooooooo super excited!!!!!

Captain Furr & I

Some awesome friends of us invited us to go here (Thanks Julie & Grant!), the Christa McAuliffe Space Education Center. We didn't really know what to expect, but we loved it. We participated in a Space simulation on a ship similar to ships in Star Trek. It seemed as though everything was Star Trek referenced, It was so totally rad! Justin was elected Captain and I got to be the First Officer. 

 Here we are right before the simulation.

 Waiting in line before the breifing.

 We tried making serious Starship important people faces.

I even found a bomb and someone on my crew detonated it in time to save our crew. Our mission was successful.  We also met a few super cool new friends we now hang out with, who love Star Trek as we love Star Trek. We are still kind of mourning the loss of the Star Trek Experience in Las Vegas, so this made up for it a little. Someday we plan on attending a real Star Trek Convention and hope to meet some of the characters in the Star Trek world. I know this must sound super geeky but yes I am really that into it.

What I really wanted for Christmas

Future Communicating Devices by Jennifer Trend

My ideas for phones of the future:

#1 Gigantic Zak Morris inspired phone, but with an iPhone display, in either pure gold, vintage floral, hippie rainbow sky, or zebra print
#2 About twice as big as a iPhone, but a little thicker and sturdier with gigantic buttons and an amazingly clear screen
#3 It will look like the handset of one those old phones from like the 1960's, but with buttons on the inside, in colors reminiscent of that era: teal, perinwinkle, canary, queen anne's lace
#4 A phone shaped as a cat, (you know you would want one)
#5 A phone that could double as a baby rattle
#6 a phone that could also be used as a digital picture frame but with an awesome chunky wooden frame that would still be cool but small enough to be sensible
#7 A communicating device inspired by Star Trek
#8 A communicating device inspired by the ones on Star Trek but have the appearance of a darling little flower pinned on your shirt, all you have to do to make a call is push the button on the front if you want to make a call, it will have voice recognition, same thing for answering a call.

Guilty Pleasure

Have I ever mentioned to you how much I really really really like Star Trek? Well it's true. I, well we, just can't get enough of it. Here is some random trivia: We really did name our son Wesley after Wesley Crusher on Star Trek:The Next Generation and I frequently dream about being a part of it all. I think Star Trek changed the world and continues to change the world. It has sure changed mine.  ;)