*Please excuse the crappy quality of this picture. I assure you the original is AWESOME…my phone just took a really crappy photo of the photo…

Two months ago Erik & I went to St. Louis. It was a “knock some sh*t off Sarah’s bucket list while getting the heck out of dodge & being child-free” weekend.  We had a great time. The highlight of the trip (especially for Erik) was the Anheuser Busch Beermaster Tour.

Running in a close second was the Star Trek Exhibit at the science center.  Depressingly, pictures were not allowed in any capacity – except for those that they themselves took & you had to pay for (mind you, it was an expense I didn’t hesitate to pay…but I digress).

Erik & I spent over an hour looking at everything on display.  Pointing out errors in the placards (seriously? You’re going to allow blatant errors in a ST exhibit?  Shame…).  Soaking in the dozens of costumes on display.  Erik took this killer picture in the original series captain’s chair (depressingly not set in an actual set – but against a green screen).  Toward the end I about passed out as I beheld the TNG bridge set.  In geek heaven I wandered around, had my picture taken in the captain’s chair, kept wandering. I sat in Data’s chair, people…DATA’s CHAIR.

Geek heaven.

In the past few weeks there’s been an emergence of an up and coming geek.

The teen has been watching anything & everything Trek (or Trek-approximate) in our house.  Considering Erik has ALL the movies (some in double w/ Blu-Ray and Standard) – and Netflix carries all the series – this is a lot of Trek.  He also has a Play Station Star Trek game that I don’t remember us having…but he’s been playing pretty non-stop

First it was the movies. All of them.  From The Motion Picture to the new Star Trek.

Then he tried the series.  Much like me, the Original Series didn’t float his boat much – and he stopped watching it within about 3 or 4 episodes.  In the past two days he has watched the entire first season of The Next Generation.  I know he’s chomping at the bit to get to Deep Space Nine, but seems dedicated to watching them in order.  The proper order.

The kid is my kind of geek.

Wish I could take full credit – but I’m pretty sure most of it goes to my movie-obsessed husband whose fail-safe “I don’t know what to watch” movies are the Star Trek movies.

Either way – the new generation has started it’s Trekkie-love. And I couldn’t be more proud.  After all, this is something we can share as a family. Most of the time, we don’t agree on much (that is difficult to do with a teen).