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[the_gneech]

Alex sighed. "Have you ever just, suddenly, been 'done' with something? Like something that was your favorite thing ever, you just wake up one day and it doesn't do anything for you?"

"Well," said Greg, "define your terms. Are we talking about something like pet rocks or smurfs here, or a food item, or what?"

"I dunno. Say, like, Star Trek. Imagine you grew up on Star Trek and it was the greatest thing ever; you were a total trekkie when you were a kid, have copies of Spock Must Die!, The Star Fleet Technical Manual and the Star Trek Concordance, and every Mego figure ever made including the Romulan and Andorian. Then one day, just sorta Poof! you just don't care any more. Star Trek is suddenly dead to you. Have you ever had that happen?"

"Not on that scale," said Greg. "I mean, everyone has enthusiasms in their youth that fade over time. I was rather keen on He-Man and the Masters of the Universe once upon a time, but seeing them again as an adult sorta put the kibosh on that."

"No, no, that's not what I mean. I'm talking about a deeper, more profound sort of connection. Something that you make the basis of your whole sense of identity. A 'Without this, what am I?' kind of thing ... the loss of which turns your whole psyche into a complete tabula rasa."

Greg's eyebrows raised. "Well, to be honest, no. Why, are you going through one of these crises yourself?"

Alex looked down at the newspaper on the table. "Well, yeah, I guess I am."

"Can I have your Andorian, then? Those guys were the coolest!"

-The Gneech

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Comments

[rhanlav.livejournal.com]

Heheh. Guess Alex isn't gunna be picking up the Star Trek Cartoon DVD boxset now. ;)

[the-gneech.livejournal.com]

Why should he bother when he's got his old Super 8 movies of the episodes filmed right off the TV set? ;)

-The Gneech

[rhanlav.livejournal.com]

Oh, that explains so much more about the whole loss of profound connection. Really... Super 8? Jeez. Way too hardcore for me! I feel sorry for his loss of connection and I hope that his overwelming fan devotion is given a proper burial, by being shot out of a photon torpedo casing towards the Genesis Planet, so that it may be reborn once more, but only after fighting some Klingons on the planet surface and... uh... I'll be quiet now.

[amcbeagle.livejournal.com]

I favor those new Andorians from Enterprise myself, especially Jeffrey Combs. He plays such an awsome bad guy (Brunt, Wayun, Reanimator).

bye

[kylet.livejournal.com]

Those two just don't know how to stay immature forever ^.^

[exatron.livejournal.com]

What kind of guys are they?

[frostdemn.livejournal.com]

Heheh, kooky. Your fictionlets almost always put a smile on my face (The ones that don't are the few serious ones I think I recall reading).

[hossblacksilver.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I blame Voyager for killing Trek. There's something inherently wrong when all the personality on the ship belong to the hologram and the borg drone.

[kinkyturtle.livejournal.com]

I've got the Star Trek Concordance! It's got that neat dial-an-episode wheel in the cover.

[rowyn]

Horses were like that for me. I was horse-crazy as a kid, collected horse figures, read horse books, wanted to own a horse, etc. My mother had a collection of her own porcelain horse figures, and she told me that she used to be crazy about them when she was a kid.

I couldn't imagine stopping. I remember thinking, as I looked at those little porcelain figures, "I'll always love horses. I'm not going to stop being pssionate about them!"

But I did.