I've decided that I'll invest in a First Contact Geordi La Forge, or a Han Solo in stormtrooper getup at $5 a pop, and then, in twenty years, they'll be able to pay off my student loans...

OR, maybe its because when I was little, my brothers broke most of my toys, or claimed them for their own, and this is just an excuse to preserve the toys I have...

Oh well. Anyone else collect?

I have at least one of every Star Trek starship model AMT/Ertl makes, including a number of kitbashed ones. I will keep buying them as long as they keep making new ones.

My father has almost the entire First-Run sets of all the Star Wars action figures, a complete Jabba's Palace and Ewok villiage, and a bunch of other toys (most of which USED to be my toys, but he bought them.)

I collect some things. I do it more by impulse, instead of in some orginzed manner. The earliest thing I have is a picture of Spock playing 3d chess, it's not autographed. I have all the books by James Blish, aloto Bantum books, atono tng books, some Voyager, some DS9. When First Contact came out, the local Citgo station had some promo posters, I mangaed two from the gas pumps, and one small one from inside on a display. I have bumperstickers, "My other car is a bird of prey" "He's dead Jim", some others. One plate(More of a brain fart than an impulse)"The Best of Both Worlds" A couple of models. one of 1701 and two of 1701-D. Some cards for the game game, though I've never played the game. did I mention the T-shirts. One hand pantied(By someone else)with a Kliongon symbol on the front, and Qa,pla on the back, along with comets and stars and stuff, others, you get the idea, it's a sanity thing.

I confess, I am not a collector, I am not a true Star Trek Fan.......

*cries*

Oh well, it's not something I can do about it. My mom is totally irritated by my Star Trek stuff, she burned two of my favourite books (Star Trek TNG Compendum, and ST:TNG Technical manual, to which I am still bitter at her to this very day). She thinks Star Trek is nothing more than a money making sham, as "they make money off of you."

So? She likes to collect Chinese antiques. Can it be the same thing too?

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I can resist anything.......
Except Temptation

BTW Tahna, I know how you feel. My mom hates me for my ST obsession. I'm always watching it, if not on television, then it's on video. My sisters even have a go at me occasionally. She's never destroyed anything, although she has threatened to on more than one occasion.

Even my dad who got me into trek gets a little pissed off at me at times. Well, it's his fault for getting me into trek in the first place

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"What does it mean, exact change?"

Instead, I've got a variety of SF-related books, technical manuals, "Making Of," "The Art Of," etc, for Trek, Wars, a couple of SF movies, and 20-30[?] rule books and supplements for role-playing games {RPG's}---Shadow Run, Cyberpunk, Traveller, Gurps Space, etc.

No, I don't play, but I just have to get those books!

Plus a couple of art books: Rodney Mathews, two from Wayne Douglas Barlowe, three from Dougle Dixon.

Anyone else?

*gets that 'psychotic librarian' look*

CALL OUT THE DEATH SQUADS!

If my parents ever did something like that to me, they'd be thanking whatever Gods they believe in (I don't ask) if I let them escape with their lives.

Fortunately, my folks now understand that Star Trek is my primary stress-eliminator -- the thing that keeps me from going after them with an axe -- so they let it alone.

Destroying my stuff would be tantamount to an act of war, and I've always belived in a Scorched Earth policy. Deterrence through bigger and better threats. (Burn my books? Pfah! I Burn your car, your house, and your business, and tell the neighborhood about them dirty movies you THINK you have hidden in the closet!)

Although that might be going a bit far...

*runs*

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"The one, the only, THE 359!"