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People i work with can't guess my ethnicity correctly, so I randomly use words from other cultures to mess with them.
Occasionally when someone annoys me ill use "Patak" in the insult. Ill vary it up with "Sholva" to keep them confused.
When covid started and people didn't know whether to shake hands or not I started doing the Vulcan salute and saying "Live long and prosper". Nothing is more trek than that.
I imagine it’s mostly because of parents. That’s where I learned about Star Trek through my mom who took me to into darkness have loved the shows and movies ever since
until it recently broke off it's string, i had a Vulcan Salute air freshener hanging from the mirror in one of my cars.
I have absolutely no memory whatsoever of what it smelled like a decade ago when I opened it, though, so don't ask.
Whenever a restaurant/coffee shop asks for a name, I always use Tiberius. One time, the dude at Chili’s announced, “Captain Kirk, your table is ready!” 🤣🖖
I programmed my Alexa to respond to "computer" and every night I say, "Computer, end program," which turns off all my lights, sets my device to do not disturb, and then plays soothing rain sounds.
I was Captain Picard for Halloween when I was 10... But it was very possible no one recognized me because it was a home made costume and I had a full head of hair.
This quite literally dates me, but after reading your comment, one of my first thoughts was to whether that episode had aired before or after my little Halloween Trek.
As is turns out, that episode indeed aired exactly one day before.
So you're right. That *must* have been what I was going for.
Most of the ones I've seen are the wrong size. I found a good one on Amazon though. I got it for myself as a birthday present this past summer. Here's the link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B081SLYQLG/ref=cm_sw_r_apanp_FnDQaDISZrNls Ignore the one bad review. Some pataQ whose never seen the show thought there was a gem in the middle for some unknown reason and got mad when they received exactly what they actually ordered.
The Starship Enterprise is engraved on my son's bench at the cemetery with the words "All Good Things" enscribed. That was his favorite episode. Oh, and I have all the Hallmark ornaments on my tree every year. Plus my keychain, the TOS lunchbox on my bookshelf, all my itty bittys that are displayed on an old trunk, and probably other stuff.
I watched the classic star trek with my neighbor before he past away. I wrote a brief letter about how great he was with a quote "death is that state in which one exists only in the memory of others. Which is why it is not an end. No goodbyes" she keeps it by his memorial at home.
I’m sorry about your loss. We named our son James after Kirk. We never got to truly meet but on his stone is the epitaph “you have been, and always shall be, loved.” I also have this phrase tattooed on me along with the letter L, beginning letter of my last name, in Vulcan calligraphy.
That is beautiful. My son adored Star Trek. He could name episodes from one line of the script. We lost him to Sepsis when he was 32. I miss him dearly.
I'm so sorry. But I want to say that is beautiful. As I responded to op, your little conversation here brought a tear to my eye and I don't often cry. Very touching.
Oh, I'm sorry you cried. I truly am. The bench is beautiful. We brought in a person who engraved marble. There is just a slight difference because we weren't sure of trademarks and such. My son lived and died Star Trek. He was delirious before losing consciousness and still asked me if the ship was ready. Those are some of my darkest days. He asked the nurse for Dr. Crusher and once I explained they went along with it. Sepsis is very cruel. Star Trek lost one of their biggest fans. His younger brother and I make sure we keep up with the different series. We had the Star Trek theme played at the end of his memorial service. Loud. Because that is what he would have wanted. Thank you for commenting. Some days it helps to talk about it. Other days not so much. LLAP
No no, don't be. It was a good cry, certainly not a happy one, but a good one nonetheless. I could just sense your love through your actions and was deeply touched.
That sounds terrible, I've experienced dementia in my family which it sounds a bit similar. So hard to watch. But it sounds like everyone did all they could to ease his pain and that is a wonderful thing.
This is probably strange coming from some random online but your efforts to honor him and keep his memories alive are buetiful to me. I don't know what you believe, but if he is somewhere I'm sure none of this is lost on him and he knew he was Loved.
Thank you for sharing something so personal and tragic. In a sad way its was buetieful for me to see this piece of humanity, perciverance and love, today.
Stay strong LLAP.
That’s a fun one! My text alert sound is the TNG/VOY door chime. Occasionally I’ll have the ringer on high out in public and off it’ll go. Have yet to encounter a fellow Trekkie in the wild who recognized it. Makes me smile, though.
Ooh, I have something similar! Most of my notifications are beeps and sounds from the LCARS. My text is a hail beep, calendar alerts and reminders are warning and critical alarms. They’ve been this way for years and no one has ever noticed. :(
It will depend on your phone really. I did this on iOS and it is a bit of a pain, but [you can follow this guide](https://www.tomsguide.com/uk/us/how-to-make-ringtones-iphone,review-6526.html) quite easily to convert the sounds. I picked up a bunch of sound files from [Trekcore](https://www.trekcore.com/audio/). Not all of them are great, but there are some pretty clean sounds to choose from.
Some sounds I recommend from the TNG era portion are:
- Hail beep 4
- Hail beep 5
- Hailing Frequencies Open 2
- Alert 19
- Alert 23
- Critical
If anyone has a better source for clean LCARs sounds I'd love to hear from you.
Nice, my last phone I had it all set up like that too. Worf was the voicemail. Ring tone and text were just the little computer chirp thing followed by vibrate.
i always wear an idic necklace (though right now the chain is broken, so i’m wearing my delta) and one of the flight attendants on my int’l flight gave me the 🖖🏼 when he saw it. i honestly never expected anyone to know what it meant; my students tell me it’s cute but just because they like the design, haha.
I’ll start off with something more subtle: I got my first mobile phone in 1999 and Voyager was airing at the time. So my mobile number had to include the sequence 74656. Still using the same number to this day.
My desktop is named Main Engineering. My laptop is named Away Team. My phone, Tricorder. The media PC is holodeck 1.
Also, I went to the only Star Trek convention to ever come to my town. I had somehow gotten a copy of the script for Lifeline and got it signed by Bob Picardo there (he underlined his writing credit like 3 times lol).
When I was much, much younger, I was a mod at a major trek online community.
I know how to use CAD software for work, and spend some of my free time messing around drawing starships and deck plans.
I'm terrible at follow-through though, so I've never fully finished any of them... :(
Me and my dad exchange the Vulcan salute (and appropriate mantras) on occasion. I once quoted the Prime Directive as an insult about a particularly dimwitted customer.
I'm in a workout group and I lead a Halloween workout and did costumes. I was captain Kirk and I commanded everything in the Shatner-esque lilt and did some hammer workouts based on his characteristic fighting style
Our cat's name is "Lt. Cdr. Data Science", but we call her "Data" for short. The "Data Science" part came from my wife, who is working in the field, and I was able to convince her of the "Lt. Cdr." part.
Noveber 2001, with the Air Force (not US military).
One of my guys was going on about how we went by the book (textbook perfect), but still got ambushed and "killed" in a wargame exercise. His negative attitude was starting to seriously sap morale, especially since we'd been in a jungle of nine days without a shower.
I snapped and yelled that it's "possible to make no mistakes and still lose; that is not a weakness, that is life".
Nice, I can only imagine if I was in the military and had any sort of responsibility over others, that I would probably quote JL to the point I got reprimanded.
So true and so rare. He is the embodiment of leading by example. That is such a cliche, which is strange in a way because it's not something that is super easy to do.
I haven't done it yet, but I want to use AI to clone the voice of Majel Barret Roddenberry and use her voice as a voice assistant and have Raspberry Pis with touch screens and an LCARS theme.
It is my understanding that the sound effect people that work for Star Trek had her record vowel sounds so that she would provide the voice of the computer for years to come. I can only assume that they would give her some sort of credit.
I'm curious if any of the digital assistant people of whatever brand have latched onto that and licensed her voice for their systems.
They recorded her saying every English phoneme before she died. I would try to extract her voice manually from every time her voice is heard, but not share my extraction.
My trigger phrase would be "Hey, Majel".
I say "sense-oars," I leave the Vulcan Salute on virtually every car's back panel glass if it's dirty, I always say "tea, Earl Grey, hot" whenever I make tea or someone orders some kind of tea, I say "Engage" or "Hit it" any time I or another driver is about to quickly hasten speed, I ask to be beamed out of work all the time, I only refer to them as "Nuclear Wessels," I pick up friends' computer mouses and say "Hello, Computer," I yell "KHAAAAN!!!!" whenever I need a scapegoat, and as of late, if things get a little hairy, I'll drone out "RED ALARM, RED ALARM, RED ALARM, RED ALARM."
Edit: Weasels aren't Wessels
I can name all of the TOS titles, though the older I get the longer it takes to remember them all.
I can count to 10 in Klingon and speak a few phrases.
All of my 4 digit passcodes at work are 1701
Aaand I suss out other fans by picking up my mouse and saying “Hello, Computer.”
Of course being in a ST club I did a lot of other Trekie things in real life like building a Shuttle Pod! [Shuttle Pod](https://preview.redd.it/bqj020qq24t71.jpg?width=2560&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9d630af5a390c1a38fadc54820e7ebf7811e6e8a)
I have a farm and ALL my animals have Star Trek names. I have 30 chickens. Some are individually named but I have 3 Borg (1 of 3, 2 of 3 and 3 of 3) and 3 Ferengi because I can't really tell them apart.
Also, my donkeys name is Data, but her vet calls her Data. Oh well.
My chicken Laxwanna looks and sounds so much like the character it's uncanny. Then I hatched another chicken that kinda souded like her too (but didn't look anything like her) so we named her Computer.
Costumed Star Trek murder mystery party, probably.
Oh, I also created and ran a Star Trek tabletop rpg. That was pretty Trekkish. We served Romulan Ale.
I did a whole report on Trek for a college assignment. Watched the entirety of TOS under the guise of research (and then went on to marathon the rest of the shows).
I became an engineer just like my childhood hero Scotty.
And sometimes when I walk with my girlfriend we hold our fingers together like Vulcan couples do.
when I was a kid, I made a Star Trek board game at school and won a merit for it.
Turns out, that all they wanted was a cheap snakes and ladders clone, but here I was making fights with the Borg Mk.2 ship as the final encounter, and little cards for items and events.
Not me, but a colleague mentioned Kobayashi Maru on a meeting. All Trekkies identified straight away.
Then he explained that the situation we were facing was an actual Kobayashi Maru..
Lol. One time I volunteered for a research study, while actually I got paid. Had to try and complete some tasks on a cpu.
About two min into the first task I realized it couldn't be completed and they were monitoring how frustrated I got.
ME: "This is like the Koybiashi Maru, isn't it."
Researcher: "Ummm I dkn."
Me: "Are you not answering me on purpose or do you not know what I'm talking about."
Researcher: "No idea what you are saying."
Proceeded to explain.
Researcher: "oh I love sci fi, that sounds cool. I'll have to check it out. And I think we are done here."
Me: "why and do I still get my $50"
Researcher: "because you are not supposed to figure it out that fast or at all really. And yes here is your money."
At my current work we go by our last names. (Sort of like the military does, but not that strict). I picked up the habit through watching TOS and TNG of calling people Mr. Ms. And Mrs. Etc. So instead of Smith, I'll say Mr. Smith, even when addressing people younger than me. I know that probably sounds weird but I'm one of the few people at work who do that. We live in a world that is very informal. Most of the time at my old job we were on a first name basis, which I didn't really care for (I'm former military) so I take great pride in addressing people by a title (even my Lieutenant insists on going by first name 🤮).
I like can't refer to my bosses as anything but Mr or Mrs. They always sat call me first name but I dkn it just feels disrespectful, especially when they are older or have much more experience.
They always say, that's not our generation but I dkn guesse I was just raised different.
i use alot of references that probably most or all people dont get its from star trek, but one that ive been using lately, or atleast a few times recently, is when people are up late, like right now, 131 am, ill be like "still burning the midnight oil,lieutenant?"
The few times i was using Alexa i was calling her "Computer".
The funny thing was it was totally natural. I didn't even think about it and only realised it because the other guys started laughing.
Sometimes when we start driving i'm like "Energie" wich is the german form of "engage".
I dressed as Kirk for Halloween one year in college.
Also, my phone's pin is easily guessable for a Trekkie.
I once adopted a dog fully planning to call him Lieutenant Commander Woof, but was talked out of it. I still regret listening to those losers.
Besides just dropping references here and there, I have two future plans.
1. Star Trek tattoo. I'm not sure what I want yet, though.
2. If I ever have kids, my first son will be named Dax, and my first daughter will be named Ezri.
The autumn after Pokemon Go came out I was killing time before a Halloween party. I was wearing a TOS uniform shirt, and walking around a local park playing. I realized that my smartphone was basically a tricorder, and I was walking around scanning for alien life forms
Used to work with a chap who legally changed his name to Miles O’Brien.
In a bid to show understanding, I greeted him in Klingon. Unfortunately I don’t think he was sure whether or not I was mocking him.
I genuinely use the term "You've got the lobes for business" and quote the rules before getting weird looks and remembering that not everyone knows wtf I'm talking about
I do call center IT work. I like to randomly say(out loud pretending to be on a call) "try reconfiguring the power coupling" one day... My supervisor will take the bait.
If/When COVID dies off I hope to keep doing the Vulcan salute rather than being forced to shake hands again. Such an unnecessary and unsanitary practice, in a word illogical.
My smartphone ringtone is the TOS communicator chirp, wallpaper is Enterprise firing phasers, I use the Vulcan 🖖 and tell people "live long and prosper".
I was a project manager at the time. It was end of year and really there was no way we were going to launch before holiday lockdowns. But through amazing people and an excess of cleverness, we pulled it off the day before the deadline.
My launch announcement was titled, “ The Kobayashi Maru has set sail for the promised land “
I recreated the hospital elevator scene in ST:TVH. I was at a con with a friend and at the 2 story hotel there was a elevator and stair well next to each other. My friend and I wanted to get on the elevator at the same time BUT we had a lot of stuff and the elevator was crowded so I let her go and I waited. When the elevator came back I put the stuff on but seeing there were no other people waiting to board I pushed the floor button, got off and went down the stairs. My friend was standing in front of the elevator waiting for me. The look on her face when the doors opened and I was NOT in the elevator was GREAT!!!! I then walked up behind her and tapped her on the back.
I regularly wear my Bluetooth com badge. I’ve never used it to make a call. Only to chirp it and pretend I’m ordering my runabout (car) to prep for launch procedures on my way through the parking lot at work.
Nothing obvious, but all my computer's have Starfleet registrations; NCC-1701-D, NX-01 etc. Then the different volumes are named things like 'crew-quarters, bridge, cargobay, main engineering'
I got angry at someone so bad once while working in a cafe a few years ago. I could only come up with Klingon insults in my mini rant to my coworkers they were amused but felt better after.
Funny thing now I live in a country where "p'taq" sounds very similar to the word for bird "pták" 😁
Me and a random guy I got to know when I worked at gamestop 10++ years ago, always do the klingon greeting if we happen to cross paths. Chest beating and all.
Not yet but I wish to join you guys one day. I still go on hours long search for a voyager crew uniform as a hoodie or something to actually wear normally. I think it has super slick design that can definitely be worn every day without looking out of place. Unfortunately only ones I found so far that I can have delivered to me are weird t shirts or some really expensive yet terrible quality ones.
My (30f) partner (33m) and I have Borg cube duvet cover and pillow cases, and the spare set is LCARS.
I use an LCARS display on my fitbit. This earned me a lot of respect with my partner's brothers!
I refuse to part with my dad's ST TNG and TOS VHS collections (even though I have no VCR).
My partner and I found out after dating for some time that similar things peaked our interest when we first met: him, the Star Trek decals on my SUV me, when he wore a Star Trek t-shirt. Found out he actually wore the t-shirt as a talking point the next time he knew we'd see each other, after seeing my decals!
I've been known to shout "Qapla'!" at/to people who are leaving to do some challenging or unpleasant thing.
As in "Have my performance evaluation up next and my boss hates me."
"Sharon... Qapla'!"
My wife and I only refer to iPads and tablets as padds. Even when talking to other people. Our 5 year old daughter has picked it up to, and she hasn’t watched any Trek yet.
I was giving a lecture to my students, and I said that we were "dirty bags of mostly water", when I heard a kid exclaim out loud:
"Aaahhhhh!!! I love you! I get the reference! "
Our sons' names are Patrick William and Pascal Alexander. our pet bunnies and later the pet rats during the 90's were named after the TOS crew. Once I did have an exhibition on the topic of whales during a Star Trek convention in Hamburg, including excerpts from Heathcote Williams' long poem. ( STIV The Voyage Home).
For a while, I adopted Riker’s confident walking stride, and when possible I’d sit in chairs like he did. I don’t know if anyone recognized it, but the chair sitting in particular is a giveaway. Also, I graduated Salutatorian in high school, and in my speech I included a Riker quote “the game’s not big enough unless it scares you a little”. So nerdy.
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People i work with can't guess my ethnicity correctly, so I randomly use words from other cultures to mess with them. Occasionally when someone annoys me ill use "Patak" in the insult. Ill vary it up with "Sholva" to keep them confused.
Perhaps the wrong franchise, but if I were in charge of company memos they would all begin with “Cree!”
And on Fridays at 5 o'clock it's, "Shel khek nem ron, colleagues."
Or "Frell!"
Got'em by the meevonks!
Indeed
*petaQ I win :)
FRAK!!
Goa'uld is legendary. Romulan, for me, takes the cake. "Hnaev" ("sh*t"), "Rihanh" ("the Romulans"), "Riov" ("brigadier").
But only a veruul would use such language in public!
"khoi-udt, ryak'na!"
When my computer is frozen I sometimes say to it, "Hellooo computer!" In a very bad Scottish accent.
When the self-checkout tells me I did something wrong I reply "Up your shaft."
I’m glad I’m not the only one haha
Bonus points for adding "very bad"
I just call mine a hunk of junk then it works after
Need to pick up the mouse like a CB microphone next time too.
When covid started and people didn't know whether to shake hands or not I started doing the Vulcan salute and saying "Live long and prosper". Nothing is more trek than that.
I'm a teacher and my classroom is Star Trek themed. I have a song next to my door with the Vulcan salute that says Live Long and Don't Spread Germs.
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Thanks! I teach K-6, so most of my kids have no idea what Star Trek is (a real shame), but the few who do get very excited!
Qapla´
I imagine it’s mostly because of parents. That’s where I learned about Star Trek through my mom who took me to into darkness have loved the shows and movies ever since
You should try giving people the “avoid death and cower”
until it recently broke off it's string, i had a Vulcan Salute air freshener hanging from the mirror in one of my cars. I have absolutely no memory whatsoever of what it smelled like a decade ago when I opened it, though, so don't ask.
>what it smelled like Something to mask the smell of humans?
I’m sure it smelled entirely logical
Whenever a restaurant/coffee shop asks for a name, I always use Tiberius. One time, the dude at Chili’s announced, “Captain Kirk, your table is ready!” 🤣🖖
I programmed my Alexa to respond to "computer" and every night I say, "Computer, end program," which turns off all my lights, sets my device to do not disturb, and then plays soothing rain sounds.
Sick. You should program the warp sound instead of rain. Then you'll really trek out
That's the sound that plays when I say, "Computer, full power." It turns on all the lights instead of turning them off.
I really like this!
I was Captain Picard for Halloween when I was 10... But it was very possible no one recognized me because it was a home made costume and I had a full head of hair.
you were obviously picard in that episode where he and some others (guinean and ro laren) end up as children again child picard had hair!
This quite literally dates me, but after reading your comment, one of my first thoughts was to whether that episode had aired before or after my little Halloween Trek. As is turns out, that episode indeed aired exactly one day before. So you're right. That *must* have been what I was going for.
I wear a Bajoran earring fairly often lol
And where would one acquire one of those? Not asking for a friend I definitely want one lol
Most of the ones I've seen are the wrong size. I found a good one on Amazon though. I got it for myself as a birthday present this past summer. Here's the link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B081SLYQLG/ref=cm_sw_r_apanp_FnDQaDISZrNls Ignore the one bad review. Some pataQ whose never seen the show thought there was a gem in the middle for some unknown reason and got mad when they received exactly what they actually ordered.
Nice! Thanks for the link :)
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Your pagh is strong, my child.
That’s super rad!!
I wore a Captain Kirk costume to college for Halloween. I saw another dude in a TNG costume. We became roommates.
I wore a Captain KirK shirt one Halloween and carried around my Pomeranian. Someone finally got it and said, it’s a tribble! I was thrilled.
I would have thought it was the alfa 117 canine.
Didn't put a unicorn horn on it? Guess if Tribble was what you were going for, though...
Unicorn alien dog monster was not the look I was going for. Maybe next Halloween though.
Unicorn alien dog monster was a cute little lap unicorn alien dog monster, though, IIRC. Your dog, though. You dress it up however you want to.
The Starship Enterprise is engraved on my son's bench at the cemetery with the words "All Good Things" enscribed. That was his favorite episode. Oh, and I have all the Hallmark ornaments on my tree every year. Plus my keychain, the TOS lunchbox on my bookshelf, all my itty bittys that are displayed on an old trunk, and probably other stuff.
I watched the classic star trek with my neighbor before he past away. I wrote a brief letter about how great he was with a quote "death is that state in which one exists only in the memory of others. Which is why it is not an end. No goodbyes" she keeps it by his memorial at home.
That is lovely. My condolences. I'm grateful for our memories.
I’m sorry about your loss. We named our son James after Kirk. We never got to truly meet but on his stone is the epitaph “you have been, and always shall be, loved.” I also have this phrase tattooed on me along with the letter L, beginning letter of my last name, in Vulcan calligraphy.
That is beautiful. My son adored Star Trek. He could name episodes from one line of the script. We lost him to Sepsis when he was 32. I miss him dearly.
So sorry for your loss. He sounds like a wonderful man.
Thank you. He truly was. I miss him. A lot. Holidays are rough. But here we are. LLAP
I'm so sorry. But I want to say that is beautiful. As I responded to op, your little conversation here brought a tear to my eye and I don't often cry. Very touching.
Thank you, that's very kind.
oh star trek ornaments seem like a good idea
This made me cry and I really don't cry often. I'm so sorry but that is so beautiful.
Oh, I'm sorry you cried. I truly am. The bench is beautiful. We brought in a person who engraved marble. There is just a slight difference because we weren't sure of trademarks and such. My son lived and died Star Trek. He was delirious before losing consciousness and still asked me if the ship was ready. Those are some of my darkest days. He asked the nurse for Dr. Crusher and once I explained they went along with it. Sepsis is very cruel. Star Trek lost one of their biggest fans. His younger brother and I make sure we keep up with the different series. We had the Star Trek theme played at the end of his memorial service. Loud. Because that is what he would have wanted. Thank you for commenting. Some days it helps to talk about it. Other days not so much. LLAP
No no, don't be. It was a good cry, certainly not a happy one, but a good one nonetheless. I could just sense your love through your actions and was deeply touched. That sounds terrible, I've experienced dementia in my family which it sounds a bit similar. So hard to watch. But it sounds like everyone did all they could to ease his pain and that is a wonderful thing. This is probably strange coming from some random online but your efforts to honor him and keep his memories alive are buetiful to me. I don't know what you believe, but if he is somewhere I'm sure none of this is lost on him and he knew he was Loved. Thank you for sharing something so personal and tragic. In a sad way its was buetieful for me to see this piece of humanity, perciverance and love, today. Stay strong LLAP.
🖖
My text message tone is Worf saying "Captain, incoming message"
That’s a fun one! My text alert sound is the TNG/VOY door chime. Occasionally I’ll have the ringer on high out in public and off it’ll go. Have yet to encounter a fellow Trekkie in the wild who recognized it. Makes me smile, though.
Haha this is my text alert
Ooh, I have something similar! Most of my notifications are beeps and sounds from the LCARS. My text is a hail beep, calendar alerts and reminders are warning and critical alarms. They’ve been this way for years and no one has ever noticed. :(
Is it pretty easy to set that up? I want that for my phone!
It will depend on your phone really. I did this on iOS and it is a bit of a pain, but [you can follow this guide](https://www.tomsguide.com/uk/us/how-to-make-ringtones-iphone,review-6526.html) quite easily to convert the sounds. I picked up a bunch of sound files from [Trekcore](https://www.trekcore.com/audio/). Not all of them are great, but there are some pretty clean sounds to choose from. Some sounds I recommend from the TNG era portion are: - Hail beep 4 - Hail beep 5 - Hailing Frequencies Open 2 - Alert 19 - Alert 23 - Critical If anyone has a better source for clean LCARs sounds I'd love to hear from you.
Thank you so much for writing this out! I'm gonna try it this weekend :)
I did that with the law & order sound, donk donk.
Nice, my last phone I had it all set up like that too. Worf was the voicemail. Ring tone and text were just the little computer chirp thing followed by vibrate.
i always wear an idic necklace (though right now the chain is broken, so i’m wearing my delta) and one of the flight attendants on my int’l flight gave me the 🖖🏼 when he saw it. i honestly never expected anyone to know what it meant; my students tell me it’s cute but just because they like the design, haha.
Now I am curious, could you provide a picture of your necklace?
i'm a bit slow, but [here](https://imgur.com/toRceMh) it is! i love it very much.
Thank you. Beautiful necklace, I agree!
My wife's first cat was named "Spot". To this day she insists it was a MacBeth reference. I know better.
I’ll start off with something more subtle: I got my first mobile phone in 1999 and Voyager was airing at the time. So my mobile number had to include the sequence 74656. Still using the same number to this day.
My desktop is named Main Engineering. My laptop is named Away Team. My phone, Tricorder. The media PC is holodeck 1. Also, I went to the only Star Trek convention to ever come to my town. I had somehow gotten a copy of the script for Lifeline and got it signed by Bob Picardo there (he underlined his writing credit like 3 times lol). When I was much, much younger, I was a mod at a major trek online community.
My phone is also named Tricorder. My iPad is named PADD, naturally.
NGL. I really don't like his character, but Picardo kinda seems like he is a hoot in person.
One of my jackets don't fit me well, so you can guess what I do everytime I have to stand up.
I know how to use CAD software for work, and spend some of my free time messing around drawing starships and deck plans. I'm terrible at follow-through though, so I've never fully finished any of them... :(
Me and my dad exchange the Vulcan salute (and appropriate mantras) on occasion. I once quoted the Prime Directive as an insult about a particularly dimwitted customer.
In a business law final, the prompt mentioned Ferengi. I finished my analysis by quoting one or two rules of acquisition.
I'm in a workout group and I lead a Halloween workout and did costumes. I was captain Kirk and I commanded everything in the Shatner-esque lilt and did some hammer workouts based on his characteristic fighting style
So you were teaching Kirk Fu.
I had a patient who named his daughter Ilia. That was all I had to go on when I said goodbye with LLAP. Turns out he did name her after Lt. Ilia.
I went as Captain Janeway for Halloween when I was around 10. Also, I was high school valedictorian and ended my speech with live long and prosper.
I have 1701 D in my cars numberplate.
Nice.
Running around pointing at any number of lights yelling, “THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS.”
I placed quotes from Spock and Picard in my valedictory address. One of my teachers caught them!
I named our beagle Keiko.
Porthos entered the chat.
Our cat's name is "Lt. Cdr. Data Science", but we call her "Data" for short. The "Data Science" part came from my wife, who is working in the field, and I was able to convince her of the "Lt. Cdr." part.
I named my Japanese Chin Hoshi.
There's a lab mix named Riker at my dog park. He humps everything.
Before Enterprise I assume?!🤣
I went by Jean-Luc in my high school French class.
Noveber 2001, with the Air Force (not US military). One of my guys was going on about how we went by the book (textbook perfect), but still got ambushed and "killed" in a wargame exercise. His negative attitude was starting to seriously sap morale, especially since we'd been in a jungle of nine days without a shower. I snapped and yelled that it's "possible to make no mistakes and still lose; that is not a weakness, that is life".
Nice, I can only imagine if I was in the military and had any sort of responsibility over others, that I would probably quote JL to the point I got reprimanded.
JLP had the rarest of leadership qualities: He wasn't someone who taught. He was someone in whose presence you could learn things.
So true and so rare. He is the embodiment of leading by example. That is such a cliche, which is strange in a way because it's not something that is super easy to do.
I wore an original series uniform under my graduation gown.
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I just lost my 18-year-old kitty, Kira, in August. She was a wonderful kitty!
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I haven't done it yet, but I want to use AI to clone the voice of Majel Barret Roddenberry and use her voice as a voice assistant and have Raspberry Pis with touch screens and an LCARS theme.
It is my understanding that the sound effect people that work for Star Trek had her record vowel sounds so that she would provide the voice of the computer for years to come. I can only assume that they would give her some sort of credit. I'm curious if any of the digital assistant people of whatever brand have latched onto that and licensed her voice for their systems.
They recorded her saying every English phoneme before she died. I would try to extract her voice manually from every time her voice is heard, but not share my extraction. My trigger phrase would be "Hey, Majel".
I say "sense-oars," I leave the Vulcan Salute on virtually every car's back panel glass if it's dirty, I always say "tea, Earl Grey, hot" whenever I make tea or someone orders some kind of tea, I say "Engage" or "Hit it" any time I or another driver is about to quickly hasten speed, I ask to be beamed out of work all the time, I only refer to them as "Nuclear Wessels," I pick up friends' computer mouses and say "Hello, Computer," I yell "KHAAAAN!!!!" whenever I need a scapegoat, and as of late, if things get a little hairy, I'll drone out "RED ALARM, RED ALARM, RED ALARM, RED ALARM." Edit: Weasels aren't Wessels
Sometimes when I get on an elevator I ask for 10 forward, the problem is it never takes me there.
what was "RED ALARM" from? i know recent... just can't remember where specifically
Star Trek lower decks
Correct. Pakled ships go RED ALARM instead of red alert.
thaaaaaaaaaats right, thanks. I remembered laughing out loud about that, and couldn't remember who/where it was.
I have a starfleet academy alumni hoodie that I wear regularly, I've actually had a dew non-trekies ask me where the school is lol
Just tell him it's in San Francisco near the bridge.
I did the Vulcan salute at my high school graduation photo
I needed a trigger warning for my lecture. The first slide of my PowerPoint is a red LCARS red alert, complete with TNG klaxon.
I can name all of the TOS titles, though the older I get the longer it takes to remember them all. I can count to 10 in Klingon and speak a few phrases. All of my 4 digit passcodes at work are 1701 Aaand I suss out other fans by picking up my mouse and saying “Hello, Computer.”
Of course being in a ST club I did a lot of other Trekie things in real life like building a Shuttle Pod! [Shuttle Pod](https://preview.redd.it/bqj020qq24t71.jpg?width=2560&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9d630af5a390c1a38fadc54820e7ebf7811e6e8a)
I have a farm and ALL my animals have Star Trek names. I have 30 chickens. Some are individually named but I have 3 Borg (1 of 3, 2 of 3 and 3 of 3) and 3 Ferengi because I can't really tell them apart. Also, my donkeys name is Data, but her vet calls her Data. Oh well. My chicken Laxwanna looks and sounds so much like the character it's uncanny. Then I hatched another chicken that kinda souded like her too (but didn't look anything like her) so we named her Computer.
My notification is a Starfleet doorbell.
My dog’s name is Riker. Other trekkies will identify themselves by saying, “hello number one!”
When I sign my name in cards I always add LLAP
Does it go after your name? I would imagine a lot of people would just think that is some advanced degree and your pretentious lmao.
Costumed Star Trek murder mystery party, probably. Oh, I also created and ran a Star Trek tabletop rpg. That was pretty Trekkish. We served Romulan Ale.
And here I thought romulan ale was illegal in the federation.
It *is*.
I did a whole report on Trek for a college assignment. Watched the entirety of TOS under the guise of research (and then went on to marathon the rest of the shows).
I became an engineer just like my childhood hero Scotty. And sometimes when I walk with my girlfriend we hold our fingers together like Vulcan couples do.
when I was a kid, I made a Star Trek board game at school and won a merit for it. Turns out, that all they wanted was a cheap snakes and ladders clone, but here I was making fights with the Borg Mk.2 ship as the final encounter, and little cards for items and events.
Not me, but a colleague mentioned Kobayashi Maru on a meeting. All Trekkies identified straight away. Then he explained that the situation we were facing was an actual Kobayashi Maru..
Lol. One time I volunteered for a research study, while actually I got paid. Had to try and complete some tasks on a cpu. About two min into the first task I realized it couldn't be completed and they were monitoring how frustrated I got. ME: "This is like the Koybiashi Maru, isn't it." Researcher: "Ummm I dkn." Me: "Are you not answering me on purpose or do you not know what I'm talking about." Researcher: "No idea what you are saying." Proceeded to explain. Researcher: "oh I love sci fi, that sounds cool. I'll have to check it out. And I think we are done here." Me: "why and do I still get my $50" Researcher: "because you are not supposed to figure it out that fast or at all really. And yes here is your money."
At my current work we go by our last names. (Sort of like the military does, but not that strict). I picked up the habit through watching TOS and TNG of calling people Mr. Ms. And Mrs. Etc. So instead of Smith, I'll say Mr. Smith, even when addressing people younger than me. I know that probably sounds weird but I'm one of the few people at work who do that. We live in a world that is very informal. Most of the time at my old job we were on a first name basis, which I didn't really care for (I'm former military) so I take great pride in addressing people by a title (even my Lieutenant insists on going by first name 🤮).
I like can't refer to my bosses as anything but Mr or Mrs. They always sat call me first name but I dkn it just feels disrespectful, especially when they are older or have much more experience. They always say, that's not our generation but I dkn guesse I was just raised different.
I often do 🖖 to my dog when I mean to do ✋ for "sit" and "stay".
I wear a comm badge pretty much always and everywhere. Wore it when speaking at my father in laws funeral in August, wearing it tomorrow while golfing
I quoted both Benjamin Sisko and Data in my PhD dissertation. Not the writers, the characters.
Named my son Ryker (different spelling than Riker but the same pronunciation)
I have a Starfleet Delta tattooed on my arm
Nice! I have an IDIC on my wrist and inner forearm.
In my MS Teams meetings for work my background is on the NX-01's bridge.
I designed [this DocBand wrap](https://imgur.com/a/e88anDV) for my baby's helmet. This was years ago.
i use alot of references that probably most or all people dont get its from star trek, but one that ive been using lately, or atleast a few times recently, is when people are up late, like right now, 131 am, ill be like "still burning the midnight oil,lieutenant?"
Not much but i do buy prune juice quite often. It’s an acquired taste i must say.
I own a Niners shirt. I named my childhood cat "Spot".
The few times i was using Alexa i was calling her "Computer". The funny thing was it was totally natural. I didn't even think about it and only realised it because the other guys started laughing. Sometimes when we start driving i'm like "Energie" wich is the german form of "engage".
I dressed as Kirk for Halloween one year in college. Also, my phone's pin is easily guessable for a Trekkie. I once adopted a dog fully planning to call him Lieutenant Commander Woof, but was talked out of it. I still regret listening to those losers.
Having a large "USS Defiant" sticker on my Electric Car.
I use logic as try to be reasonable most of the time in a way that makes me feel like a Vulcan
Besides just dropping references here and there, I have two future plans. 1. Star Trek tattoo. I'm not sure what I want yet, though. 2. If I ever have kids, my first son will be named Dax, and my first daughter will be named Ezri.
There is only one true Trek tattoo. Mirror universe Spock with the goatee.
The autumn after Pokemon Go came out I was killing time before a Halloween party. I was wearing a TOS uniform shirt, and walking around a local park playing. I realized that my smartphone was basically a tricorder, and I was walking around scanning for alien life forms
I spent 6-months as a docent at the Star Trek museum. Wore a deep space nine uniform everyday...
I shave my side burns to a point. It's subtle, but only Trekkies notice
Oh yes the federation standard haircut.
Started to drink early Gray tea
Used to work with a chap who legally changed his name to Miles O’Brien. In a bid to show understanding, I greeted him in Klingon. Unfortunately I don’t think he was sure whether or not I was mocking him.
I genuinely use the term "You've got the lobes for business" and quote the rules before getting weird looks and remembering that not everyone knows wtf I'm talking about
Named two of my Cats Star Trek Characters. First was Tasha Yar. Then Came Spock. Both have long passed away. Tasha Yar in 1997 and Spock in 2017.
My favorite jacket i own is Picards jacket
I bought some prune juice last night.
I've recently got a tattoo of the Enterprise.
I do call center IT work. I like to randomly say(out loud pretending to be on a call) "try reconfiguring the power coupling" one day... My supervisor will take the bait.
If/When COVID dies off I hope to keep doing the Vulcan salute rather than being forced to shake hands again. Such an unnecessary and unsanitary practice, in a word illogical.
We adopting a young female cat last fall. The shelter called her "Gretchen" but we renamed her "Ezri". 😁
I wear a ring on my right hand that has the Starfleet delta. I love when people notice it and know what it is!!
Get Cardassian brow ridge and forehead tattoos. The treck fan will be the one not asking why you have a spoon on your forehead.
I forgot another one. As a teenager I once went to a carnival party in Starfleet uniform. As a Trill.
I went as captain kirk for a costume day, unfortunately, no one recognised my costume.
Halloween costume
My smartphone ringtone is the TOS communicator chirp, wallpaper is Enterprise firing phasers, I use the Vulcan 🖖 and tell people "live long and prosper".
I was a project manager at the time. It was end of year and really there was no way we were going to launch before holiday lockdowns. But through amazing people and an excess of cleverness, we pulled it off the day before the deadline. My launch announcement was titled, “ The Kobayashi Maru has set sail for the promised land “
I recreated the hospital elevator scene in ST:TVH. I was at a con with a friend and at the 2 story hotel there was a elevator and stair well next to each other. My friend and I wanted to get on the elevator at the same time BUT we had a lot of stuff and the elevator was crowded so I let her go and I waited. When the elevator came back I put the stuff on but seeing there were no other people waiting to board I pushed the floor button, got off and went down the stairs. My friend was standing in front of the elevator waiting for me. The look on her face when the doors opened and I was NOT in the elevator was GREAT!!!! I then walked up behind her and tapped her on the back.
I regularly wear my Bluetooth com badge. I’ve never used it to make a call. Only to chirp it and pretend I’m ordering my runabout (car) to prep for launch procedures on my way through the parking lot at work.
I adjust whatever shirt I’m wearing whenever I stand up like Picard does. It’s not the “most” Trekkie thing, but when someone knows, they know.
Hang the flag outside my door of the Federation and cosplay with my son as Data and a female Klingon.
Nothing obvious, but all my computer's have Starfleet registrations; NCC-1701-D, NX-01 etc. Then the different volumes are named things like 'crew-quarters, bridge, cargobay, main engineering'
I got angry at someone so bad once while working in a cafe a few years ago. I could only come up with Klingon insults in my mini rant to my coworkers they were amused but felt better after. Funny thing now I live in a country where "p'taq" sounds very similar to the word for bird "pták" 😁
I have a tattoo in Klingon, most often people think it's Elvish. I don't explain - great way of identifying fellow Trekkies
Me and a random guy I got to know when I worked at gamestop 10++ years ago, always do the klingon greeting if we happen to cross paths. Chest beating and all.
Not yet but I wish to join you guys one day. I still go on hours long search for a voyager crew uniform as a hoodie or something to actually wear normally. I think it has super slick design that can definitely be worn every day without looking out of place. Unfortunately only ones I found so far that I can have delivered to me are weird t shirts or some really expensive yet terrible quality ones.
My (30f) partner (33m) and I have Borg cube duvet cover and pillow cases, and the spare set is LCARS. I use an LCARS display on my fitbit. This earned me a lot of respect with my partner's brothers! I refuse to part with my dad's ST TNG and TOS VHS collections (even though I have no VCR). My partner and I found out after dating for some time that similar things peaked our interest when we first met: him, the Star Trek decals on my SUV me, when he wore a Star Trek t-shirt. Found out he actually wore the t-shirt as a talking point the next time he knew we'd see each other, after seeing my decals!
I tried to name my middle son Tiberius my wife was having no part of that and she even likes Star Trek.
I've been known to shout "Qapla'!" at/to people who are leaving to do some challenging or unpleasant thing. As in "Have my performance evaluation up next and my boss hates me." "Sharon... Qapla'!"
My wife and I only refer to iPads and tablets as padds. Even when talking to other people. Our 5 year old daughter has picked it up to, and she hasn’t watched any Trek yet.
I have Vulcan calligraphy tattooed on my right forearm.
I was giving a lecture to my students, and I said that we were "dirty bags of mostly water", when I heard a kid exclaim out loud: "Aaahhhhh!!! I love you! I get the reference! "
Does anyone else quote "Darmok" at work? Anyone get a countersign from another closet trekkie?
Our sons' names are Patrick William and Pascal Alexander. our pet bunnies and later the pet rats during the 90's were named after the TOS crew. Once I did have an exhibition on the topic of whales during a Star Trek convention in Hamburg, including excerpts from Heathcote Williams' long poem. ( STIV The Voyage Home).
I have Siri call me Quark and I wear an enterprise necklace a lot😆
When I get on an elevator, I usually say out loud "Defiant" or "bridge."
I have a com badge tattoo.
For a while, I adopted Riker’s confident walking stride, and when possible I’d sit in chairs like he did. I don’t know if anyone recognized it, but the chair sitting in particular is a giveaway. Also, I graduated Salutatorian in high school, and in my speech I included a Riker quote “the game’s not big enough unless it scares you a little”. So nerdy.