There always has to be a Next Post, and it always feels wrong (especially when it’s an upbeat one), but there has to be one.
I am very, very excited. Naturally this isn’t very obvious outwardly as I’m generally calm, but I can assure you – I am. I’ve been catching up with my Star Trek film box set over the last two weeks, plus Pick has been showing episodes of TNG; so I’ve been thinking about Star Trek more so than usual. Today while mid-work I randomly stuck “Star Trek convention UK” into Google, on a whim, just to see if they ever occurred. And, lo and behold there is a convention. A UK one. A Star Trek one. In London (down the road from me). And it started today.
😯
Now if that isn’t spooky, I don’t know what is. I dithered a bit, I do hate to be spontaneous after all, but when I saw that Brent Spiner (<3) would be there, as well as Patrick Stewart, Kate Mulgrew, John de Lancie and William Shatner, and you can pay to get autographs and MEET THEM – well, I was sold. There were tickets available for Sunday, so I bought one, then found out Ammie could attend also, and bought a second. So, in the last four hours I’ve gone from girl who was planning to maybe plant some brassica seedlings out into the lottie this weekend, if the rain held off for an hour or so, to girl who is potentially meeting some of her life heroes on Sunday.
If she’s brave enough to actually meet them. And she’ll have to be brave enough. Because frankly, Trek conventions in the UK are rare, her ability to spot them is limited (as evident by only spotting this one today), and this is a special year (25th Anniversary of TNG) so there are an unusual number of said heroes present. This is it. To boldly go, and all that.
SQUEEEEEEEEEEE! 
Memo: don’t introduce yourself as Kai. It’s more weird when people might actually recognise the reference.
