Uber Trekkie Weirdness Syndrome

I'm currently working on my bucket list, which you can read about here.  One of the items on my list was to have an epic Star Trek DS9 marathon.  

The problem with this is that I develop a psychological condition known as Uber Trekkie Weirdness, which leads to an uncontrollable desire and ability to make obscure Star Trek references to every single topic imaginable, an overactive imagination and a tendency to overact everything and speak in a slow dramatic voice without realising it.  It can also lead to excessive quoting of Wrath of Khan, despite Wrath of Khan being totally irrelevant to DS9. 

An excerpt from the blog post: #471 - Watch every episode of Star Trek: DS9 from bucketlistingblog:

"It happened almost instantaneously. I was barely three episodes into the seven seasons of Deep Space Nine (DS9) that I was aiming to get through when I began to talk like Benjamin Sisko, the commander of the space station featured in the series.

I began… to speak…in a slow voice…with lots of pauses.

If that wasn’t bad enough, I also began to use similar facial expressions so people could truly feel the moment I was trying to communicate. Because, after all, moving your head in a strange tic like movement ,widening your eyes and taking five minutes to say something like ‘I don’t believe you’, is much more effective than simply saying it. It didn’t stop there though…

I decided that I would name my next daughter Jadzia, after Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax.

I actually threw a shoe at the television when Odo was too busy getting it on with the other shape shifter to help Major Kira, and Rom the ferengi was sentenced to execution (of course they saved him in time).

Conversations with my family members and friends started to go something like this:

Friend: Maybe you could outsource this particular piece of work, if it’s giving you a headache?
Me: I bet you a bottle of bloodwine that I won’t be able to find anybody!
Friend: A what?
Me: Bloodwine! The Klingon drink of choice. Qapla’!
Friend: Are you speaking English?
Me: Well you’d know it if I was speaking Klingon, wouldn’t you? *exasperated sigh*

I began doing things like yelling ‘your mother has a smooth forehead!’ at inanimate objects when they displeased me.

People would tell me stories of how they broke their toe/had a cold/found a cure for cancer, and I would in turn tell them stories about the time Major Kira smashed a Cardassian in the face, about the virus that infected the founders, or how Dr Bashir found a vaccine for an incurable illness on some random planet in the Gamma quadrant.

It wasn’t until I caught myself attempting to exterminate an arachnid, Wrath of Khan style, that I realised I had a problem.

Useful tip: bug spray kills arachnids. Yelling ‘from hell’s heart I stab at thee!’ does not.

I made it through all seven seasons of DS9, and just as I was about to start tackling #74: Watch every Star Trek episode and movie in chronological order, I had a moment of pure clarity (something which Major Kira has in DS9 right before she decides to get together with Odo). I realised that I probably should take a break from Star Trek before my family and friends started bat’lething me, because I’d lost the plot."