Geeks in LB!

[fangirljen]

My brain is too tired to come up with any real description of today's trip to Long Beach, in specifics to see the Star Trek Tour. I'm not a Trekkie, or a Trekker, by any means, but it was fun. Hung out with friends, three who were hyped about it, so that made it very awesome. Also, what I witnessed? Even more awesome. Katie met people from the Star Trek fan series Hidden Frontier and it was such a beautiful moment to witness. Goodness knows she's seen me meet enough people I like!

Besides the meetup with the Hidden Frontier guys (which was so random! This was their first time at the tour. What luck! And you know what I say to that? Not luck! It was meant to be. :D ), seeing the Zach Quinto look-a-like was one of my fav moments! He was running this booth where you can get filmed into three minutes of an ep of Classic Trek. He had thick eyebrows (though they weren't Sybrows), the hair, the smile, the ears. The only thing was he probably had about twenty pounds on Quinto and wasn't as tall, but aside from those two things, daamn. He might just be some distant relative or something! So crazy. And I wasn't the only one to think that he shared a strong resemblance to Quinto. We all agreed. Usually it's just Jen imagining these things, but nope, not this time! LOL I told him he should be Zach's stand-in and tell people that he is Zach. :D What a place for him to be working. *L*

Besides Katie, scififreak, hystericblue42, and sarumann were with us, too. Good people. This is only the second time I've met sarumann in person, but I feel like I know him better than that--likely because of LJ! I felt loved. These are good people. I love having friends offline who are as geek as me. It's a blessing.


Edit: Check out Sarumann's report for pictures and Katie's report for more info!

Comments

[sarumann.livejournal.com]

It was great to see you and partake in the Trek with you and everybody else! I suppose I should unlock my post about it so people can click through and see it.

[fangirljen.livejournal.com]

Oh hey! Oops! Didn't notice it was locked. Sorry about that!

[scififreak.livejournal.com]

Will you come to the dark side now? We have cookies *and* a whole freaking universe to play in where nearly anything is possible! *offers a kickass ship and awesome crew*

[fangirljen.livejournal.com]

Tempting, very tempting. Are there canon books for the Titan? Because Riker, Troi (I'm assuming?), Tuvok, and Wesley? I can get behind that!

[scififreak.livejournal.com]

yeah, they started a book series for Riker's command. And from what I've read/heard, there's a canonical gay character (one of the male crew members was married to a guy that died in First Contact).