Just over a year ago on May 5th, 2006 I wrote of my own geekiness in relation to Star Trek Fandom. Well, I am here to revise it.
While I was away last week on a business trip a package came in the mail for me. It was a box of 3 Deep Space Nine novels (The Millennium Series) I won on eBay for $0.99 (plus $7 shipping). After getting home, I lay in bed reading Volume 1. My wife who is renowned for not letting me read in peace in bed, on the toilet or wherever looks over and mocks, "The Fall of Tebuk Nor!"
"TEROK Nor" I correct. "That was the name of DS9 before the withdrawal of the Cardassians."
"DS9?" she laughs. "Is that some kind of cool abbreviation [similar to KFC I guess she was getting at--ed.] I've never heard it called DS9 before."
Before I went off about how everyone knows DS9 is the shortened version of Deep Space Nine and how she really needs to bone up on her Cardassian occupation of Bajor history I stopped myself. It was another geek moment battle I knew I would not win.
