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<v ->My first point of contact with Star Trek,</v>

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I guess is when I was a really small child,

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catching reruns of the original episodes

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that would need original classic series.

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And then when I was just getting into college,

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getting into next generation,

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and then from there on out,

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and that was that.

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And I've always admired the way

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they take that kind of,

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a very unique unorthodox approach and commentary

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on the human nature and what we're all about,

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but doing it from a really novel way

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and their depiction of this ideal kind of existence

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in society has always been appealing.

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<v ->It was the only TV show my mother would watch</v>

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She had us watch it when we were children

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and we've loved it ever since.

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And I went to my first convention

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in the mid seventies up in the Bay area.

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<v ->And you took me to my first convention,</v>

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where I still have the necklace of the USS enterprise

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that you bought me.

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<v ->My favorite favorite episode</v>

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has to be "Mirror Mirror".

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I'll watch it backwards and forwards.

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Uhura and and Spock in that

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were just great

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and how they deal with their alter egos

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and all that kind of stuff.

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And it's one episode

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I'll just watch again and again.

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<v ->You are so much better at this than I am.</v>

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<v ->And we gotta give love to "Deep Space Nine".</v>

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That is also an amazing show for me.

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It probably goes the "Original Discovery"

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and "Deep Space Nine" in order.

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<v ->I remember watching Star Trek</v>

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on the reruns with my family

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and the original Kirk, Spock, McCoy,

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just sitting on a couch with my family

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and it's been embedded in my DNA ever since.

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<v ->He sent me this spreadsheet a couple of years ago.</v>

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<v ->Yeah.</v>

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<v ->And it was every single episode of Star Trek</v>

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in chronological order.

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<v ->Yeah.</v>

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<v ->It's taken us a couple of years already.</v>

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<v ->It's just finding the time</v>

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to watch a couple episodes of DS9.

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And then I got to flip over to Voyager

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and then I don't, I don't have that DVD.

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I got to buy that DVD.

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So it's been a project, but it's Star Trek.

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You know.

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<v ->It made me fall in love</v>

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with Enterprise theme song though.

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I know that's a very controversial thing.

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(sings) It's been a long.

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<v ->Okay. Not going to say that.</v>

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<v ->I love it!</v>

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<v ->(sings) From there, it's been a long time.</v>

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And my time is finally here.

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<v ->I remember the very first episode</v>

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of Star Trek when I was five years old

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and I hated it

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because it wasn't the original series,

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but eventually I loved it so much

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that I had my senior pictures taken

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in my Star Trek TNG uniform.

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I get told, I look like Deanna all the time.

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They look at Troy.

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(sings) I've got stray, the hug,

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no one's gonna offend or break me.

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I've got faith to believe

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I can do anything.

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I think I may have switched those lines,

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but it's been a few years since it was on.

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(upbeat music)