My Wife Used to Call Me A Train-Geek...

Incredible!

I loved it, Jon!

 

I'm waiting for a holosuite layout program to be built....

 

Peter

 

 

made me think of the Castle episode about Nebula 9.

 

good stuff, this.  

I love a good 'gotcha'!

 

You two have a lot of fun.

 

 

 

Andrew

Lol

I bet your house is interesting at Halloween.  Nick 

Hey, I can be called both a train geek and a Trekkie!  Resistance is futile!  Believe it or not there is an anime series (Japanese cartoon) that combines trains and Star Trek and includes trains that run in space (the main engine in the series is actually a Big Boy!).  It's called The Galaxy Railways.

I tried once, really tried to watch Galaxy Railways.  Couldn't do it.  I don't recommend it. 

 

Nathan

The first few episodes have a rocky start, but once you get to episode 5 it gets a lot better.

Priceless, but where's her medical tricorder?

Oh, no, no, no.  It's still very geeky.  You're just realizing that she and everyone else understand!

 

That would be a difficult decision: do I want to be in the cab of a Big Boy going up the Wasatch Front, or on the bridge of the Starship Enterprise boldly going . . . "?

The wife of a couple of my friends was complaining that her husband paid more attention to his trains than her. I suggested she wear a Zephyrette uniform....

Jon:  well, the wife has one-upped you on this one.  The only thing I can say is "Set your phasers to stun."   double LOL

 

My wife is laughing!

 

Jon

 

Oh yeah, and James Doohan has been dead for several years...

Jon:

 

If I were you, I would keep her very happy. Now with her Star Trek connections, when they say "beam me up", you want to be included. 

Happy now?

MartyE,

 

Yes, it is the set of Star Trek Phase II.  They have exactly the same number of square feet as the Desilu Studios had, and are recreating each set to the exact configuration they used back the 60's. 

 

On a train note, there is a beautifully restored station just down the street in the heart of downtown Ticonderoga.  There are no tracks, but one can see the remnants of the right-of-way.  The current Ti train station on the CP (former D&H) is closer to the lake-shore on the main.  Was there a spur into Ticonderoga at one time?

 

Jon

Now u need this album

 

 

KJ 1,

   Cool post, real Geeky memories all they way!

PCRR/Dave

IS there a train set on the USS Enterprise???

She may call you a Geek,

 

but at least she still calls you.....

 

And look on the bright side, you didn't marry the "green chick".

 

Gilly

 

 

Jon

 

That's cool.  Can't wait for Mind Sifter to come out.

Glad to see you guys are having fun! Keep it up, enjoy life!

That's great and it looks as though you both had a good time.

Ralph

The answer is "possibly" given Kirk's love of antiquities. (Citation, Spock presenting Kirk with a rare book in "Star Trek II -- the Wrath of Khan")

I don't know if I would brag that my wife had the tour of Kirk's bedroom.

 

Anyway I thought a train geek would bit the engines off train sets.

Jon,

 

Sorry to say that I agree with Lee.  wearing your conductor's uniform doesn't make you less geeky compared to your wife's Trekkinees, it's just as geeky but in a different way. 

 

Would have loved to have gone to that exhibit myself.  I'm still kicking myself for not attending the temporary one they did at the aerospace museum here in Balboa Park a few years back.

Well then I am a geek too. I admit it! I like Star Trek and seeing KOOLjock1's wife dressed up as Lieutenant Uhora is both hilarious and thrilling!

 

Now if only MTH or Lionel could license the Star Trek brand and develop a thematic train set based on the popular television series, I would be all set. It's about time one of the OGR train manuacturers went "where no one has gone before" by releasing a Star Trek train (even though I've never seen a train on Star Trek). 

 

Beam me up Scotty!

 

(Yeah, I'm a geek alright)

In HO...

 

That would make me depart from my rivet-counting and plunk down money for a set. There are several Trek properties that could be done -- TOS, TNG, DS9, Voyager, Enterprise, and Reboot. That doesn't even include TOS/TNG movie options, but the ones worth doing are 2, 3, 4, 6, and First Contact.

Better "Train Geek" than "Train Wreck"

Well, beam me up! What a great picture. And I guess you could say that your wife is out of this world! Love to go there sometime.

 

Signed,

one train geek to another.....

Mike

 

They are always looking for volunteers for a couple weeks at a time.

 

Star Trek Phase II

At least she's not a "red shirt!"  lol

 

Did anyone see the episode of the Next Generation where the holo deck has an old west train and the locomotive's controls actually run the Enterprise?

There was a sort of train in the 4th Movie. They were showing the area around Headquarters and a Train / Monorail was going past. As I recall it Looked similar to the Disney Train without any colorful paint.

 

Bring It.

I would rather have a train trek than a train wreck!

This is just too funny.  I have a place on the lake in Ferrisburgh VT, more or less right across from Ticonderoga... and I had NO idea this was going on.  Just followed the link and watched episode 8, "Kitumba".  And you're right.  The acting is as bad as the original, and the low-budget cardboard props are just as ridiculous.

 

In fact, it is delightfully faithful to the original series in every way - right down the the philosophical discussion between Kirk, Spock, and Bones at the end of the episode - but it's also shot through with little asides and winks at modern sensibilities, to let us know they're all in on the joke and don't take themselves too seriously.  These folks are having a tremendous amount of fun.

 

And the Klingon home world filmed at night at Fort Ticonderoga, site of the midnight raid by Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys. There is some kind of intergalactic, time-warped poetic justice in that.  What a totally outrageous project.  This is the best entertainment I've viewed in some time.  Whoever is doing the writing for these is actually quite good.   Well done!

 

And Jon, as Scotty says in TNG 'Relics'; "I'll say this about your Enterprise... the doctors are a fair sight prettier!"