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I am a hardened geek, a nerd who strides across the planet with 20 km boots, a dork of such vastness that I can crush you into oblivion with my HP calculator before I even hit Enter.

Yet I was reduced to near-normalcy in comparison by listening to this [some brief NSFW language]. If you are a Trek fan, specifically of TNG, and are a fan of Wil Wheaton, Jonathan Frakes, and/or LeVar Burton, then you need to drop whatever you’re carrying — a Steuben crystal, a cooler with a transplant heart, your bowl of Quisp — and listen to that. These three men are all +20 for geekery.

And next year, by Grabthar’s hammer, I’ll try to go to Phoenix Comic Con.

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June 3rd, 2010 1:50 PM Tags: Comic Con, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Star Trek, TNG, Wil Wheaton
by Phil Plait in Geekery, SciFi, TV/Movies | 29 Comments » | RSS feed | Trackback >

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