Have you heard about the Star Trek fans' internet dating site, Trek Passions?

It was after a wildly unsuccessful run with Esquire.com Personals, a paid service affiliated with the men's magazine, that "S" (he asked that his name not be used) sought out Trek Passions. The final straw came when he was rejected by a woman with whom he had nothing in common. "She was the complete and total opposite of me in every way," he confesses. When the self-proclaimed "Spock-like personality" turned out not to be "fashionably ironic," she was disappointed. (He doesn't think his day job as a janitor helped his cause any.)

"S" says that he's been told: "Weird people should date other weird people - the normals don't quite understand."

Your basic Spock-like personality here, seeking a woman with a personality somewhere in the Deanna Troi to Subcommander T'Pol range. will consider B'Elana Torres to Kira Nerys types depending on extenuating circumstances. No tribbles, please.

I've been in way too many relationships where the girl I'm with thinks "He's great, except for that Sci-Fi fascination" . . . I'm so done with that, and just looking for someone who can enjoy an hour of Trek with me instead of in the other room.

This one's short and to the point:

Take me to your bedroom, earthling. I live ST:OS, ST:TNG, BSG and BDSM.

Now, I know some of my readers have probably already opened up another window and are feverishly typing their intros as we speak. On the other hand, some of you geeks might be skeptical, like Conan O'Brien was:

Trek Passions received a boost back in March, when, on his late-night talk show, Conan O'Brien quipped: "The fans say the dating website is going great and any month now they hope a girl will join."

My pictureÂ’s a stretched horizontally; IÂ’m not nearly that wide in real life, jeez. Just bought STNG 1 and 3 collectorÂ’s on DVD. . . . I like characters and episodes more than series, although STNG and Voyager have the best decorating, I mean, where would you rather be quartered; on PicardÂ’s Enterprise or KirkÂ’s? . . . To sum up my personality lets just say that if there were Hobbits in the Trek series I would identify strongly and have the same values. I also probably look and act like one, except IÂ’m bigger.

Well, stop wondering. Even if I didn't have a boyfriend already, you wouldn't catch me posting my Janeway inspired picture on the internet, trolling for über-nerds in some cyberspace version of the Mos Eisley Cantina.

I would simply wait until the next Creation convention, hang out by the comic tables, and bat my eyelashes like one of Mudd's Women.

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1 Interestingly, theres as actual online Mos Eisley Cantina. This is actually kind of cool. I bet they have a lot of those Klingon weddings, like on the Simpsons!

Posted by: E.M. at July 02, 2006 01:13 PM (qx/RL)

2 Try as I might, can't find any scantily clad pics of Uhura.

Posted by: Scof at July 02, 2006 04:13 PM (COaYC)

3 I think it is a great idea - If I was more star trek inspired and I was single, I'd consider looking there. As it is, I met my spouse on-line on one of the very old Prodigy bb's - rush limbaugh's, actually.

Posted by: Beth Donovan at July 02, 2006 05:08 PM (9FPYz)

4 Gimme a fuckin break, like they didn't invent 25th century pocket pussys and sex androids that are better than the real thing! Why would these guys NEED women?

Posted by: Casca at July 02, 2006 07:20 PM (2gORp)

5 Speaking of Hollywood, check out this socialist, anti-American loooove! Being so uber-evolved must be quite the aphrodisiac.

Posted by: Radical Redneck at July 02, 2006 09:10 PM (8qdYC)

6 MY EYES, MY EYES!!

Posted by: Casca at July 02, 2006 10:07 PM (2gORp)

7 My wife and I went to a Sci-Fi convention recently and the big costume contest is always a hoot. This one featured three Princess Leah's in the dancing girl costume and they ranged from about 180-240 lbs. They should have had a special category for "most likely to be mistaken for a dirigible."

Posted by: kyle8 at July 03, 2006 03:28 AM (1jWFc)

8 Kyle8, I know!! Jesus H, man! Everytime I see one of those, I wanna yell out "Hey! It wasn't Jabba wearin' the suit, ya freak!"

Posted by: ElMondoHummus at July 03, 2006 08:10 AM (xHyDY)

9 It's the very same reason that I avoid Whalemart like the plague. C'mon people, do you really need a fucking McDonald's in there? Hell even if they got rid of the morbidly obese, I'd still be off put by the hordes chattering like monkeys in their savage tongues. Durkha, Durkha, Mohammad, Allah.

Posted by: Casca at July 03, 2006 11:40 AM (rEC2k)

10 Man, I've said it dozens of times: Wal-Mart's like a cross between Dawn of the Dead and a cattle drive: Super-sized humans in a zombie-like trance. Totally... that's why I avoid Wal-Mart. Cas: The Wal-Marts around me have Subways installed. I wonder if they're not subliminally saying "Our customers need to make like Jerrod". Back on topic: I'm pretty geek, man, but even I recoil at the thought of trolling for dates through a Star Trek-centric service. Although catch me on certain days, and my resistence might be lower... And what's with that line outta the CSMonitor story?: "Weird people should date other weird people - the normals don't quite understand." Ok. Once, and one time only for those supposed anti-stereotyping stereotypers in the MSM: Science Fiction fans Are. Not. Abnormal.. We fans Are. Not. Weird (well, maybe the ones who dress up are, but man, those guys are really out there...). We have our own obsessions, true, but how's a guy who's memorized lines out of ST:TOS any different from a guy who can recite box scores for any given World Series from memory? No, I can't do either... but lines from X-Files, I might have a shot Another rant at the story: Who the HELL writes "May the Force Be With Them" in a story about Star Trek??!! Hel-lo!!

Posted by: ElMondoHummus at July 03, 2006 01:38 PM (xHyDY)

11 Casca you sound like John Rocker...

Posted by: Scof at July 03, 2006 06:00 PM (COaYC)

12 "it`s not exactly "scifi". It`s simply on the SciFi channel." hmmm, there's a new rubric i've seen occasionally: "speculative fiction."

Posted by: annika at July 03, 2006 06:38 PM (fxTDF)

13 BTW, can't wait till the new Battlestar Galactica's return. Even if that show were not SCI_FI it is absolutely the most kick ass writing on TV since perhaps the old Playhouse 90 in the early 1960's.

Posted by: kyle8 at July 04, 2006 07:03 AM (SLmNP)

14 This still says it all.

Posted by: Dave J at July 04, 2006 07:07 AM (S6J6x)

15 "Casca you sound like John Rocker..." Why, because I often feel like a stranger in my native land? Because I swim in a sea of the culturally ignorant?

Posted by: Casca at July 04, 2006 09:17 AM (2gORp)

16 Beth: Ok. You got me there. Anni: I've seen that term tossed about too. Don't see any advantage to sticking a new moniker across several well-established and accepted categories, but then again, the language isn't alive unless it morphs and evolves, right? Dave J: Best Triumph skit ever! Best Star Wars skit too!

Posted by: ElMondoHummus at July 04, 2006 12:45 PM (xHyDY)

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