Signs that Star Trek is Taking Over Your Life
- Saying “make it so” in casual conversation
- Indignation because the periodic table doesn’t include dilithium and tritanium.
- Able to use “variable phase inverter” in a sentence without excessive thought first
- More than one pair of Spock ears on junk drawer
- Have figured out the stardate system
- Sudden urge to wear lots of Lycra
- Scanning shelves at local liquor store for synthehol
- The Star Trek theme becomes background music for your dreams
- Major quote sources for thesis are Shakespeare, the Bible, and “The Omega Glory”
- Memorization of the crew’s authorization codes
- Forgetting that present-day elevators don’t have voice interface
- Attending a convention wearing non-Terran vestments
- Actual serious thoughts about buying that $300 model of the Enterprise from the Franklin Mint
- Understanding Klingon
- Lecturing any science professor on how transporters work
- Playing fizzbin and understanding it
- “The Outrageous Okona” seems like a fine piece of writing and dramatic stylistics
- Paying rapt attention during those endless special effects sequences in ST:TMP
- Inexplicable rock-climbing urges
- More than three original episode outlines buried in your drawers

