The Gorn, Spiderman shower puffs and Doctor Who Monopoly.

I wanted to write a quick piece about a few things that have happened over the last couple of weeks. I feel like I should be writing more but I seem to barely be finding time to myself at the moment. But that's boring - on to more interesting things!

It was my birthday last week and my friends, as usual, came up trumps with the geeky stash. Over the past few years I have received David Tennant as Doctor Who posters, Star Trek (TOS) keyrings and many other exciting things. This year I got my very first Star Trek TNG comic.

As you can see it's a late TNG storyline. It's set before Nemesis as far as I could tell because Data was present. I don't read a lot of comics but the characterisation as far as I could tell was not brilliant. It was a bit typical of the later movies actually; a lot of focus on Data and Picard with the other characters reduced to parodies of themselves. Riker in particular. As I've said before, I don't like bashing things so we'll move swiftly onto the positives. The artwork in this issue was beautiful, as you would expect in the first issue of a series. There was a brilliant little 'case file' in the back of the comic that explained how the creator had gone about drawing the Gorn and building up the mythology of the race and the background. Clearly, a lot of thought had gone into it. This made me enjoy it all the more. Going into the Gorn aspect in more detail, my friends hadn't heard of the infamous Gorn fight scene in TOS. This is alluded to in the comic and I loved that. Here's the clip if you've not seen it:

This is just a taste but as you can see it has to be one of the worst fight scenes in sci-fi history. The scene has been alluded to numerous times by various other shows (including Star Trek:Enterprise, see the episodes "In a Mirror, Darkly"). Anyway, the creator of this comic creates a whole back story to the Gorn species which makes the whole thing seem not so silly. I'm very appreciative of that and I think it works.

Other geeky things that have occurred this week:

I got a new shower puff:

You like? I do feel a little bit weird using Spiderman to wash myself but oh well, it was like 50p or something!

I got a retweet! Yay! By the lovely Geek Syndicate. (I'll add there website to the list at the side when I've finished writing this.) I used my personal account so I won't go into too much detail but I was excited. Those guys are lovely.

I'm getting WAY too excited about the Hunger Games. I've promised my flatmate that I'll go with him to see it next Saturday but I might have to go for a sneak peek on Friday. SFX have been running daily interviews with cast and crew, you can find them here. I have tended to scoff Twilight fans (which is what many are comparing this to) but NO LONGER. I have officially turned into a fangirl when it comes to this film. Although it seems I've become obsessed with Jennifer Lawrence as opposed to a male lead. This was proven in a pub quiz a couple of weeks ago when she was the answer to a question and I was the only one who knew that. Out of all the people on all the teams. Not a fangirl wannabe for nothing you know.

I played a lovely game of Doctor Who Monopoly with friends the other night. We had extra points for DW references made throughout the game. Someone suggested adding an infinity mirror to the inside of the box to make it look (altogether now) bigger on the inside.

I finished Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds as well. The ending was breath-taking in its scope and themes. I was blown away and when I find the time, I promise to put up a short post/review about it. I'm trying to find the time to write a review for The Time Traveler's Wife as well but that's for other reasons.

Fun and geeky japes this week. Apologies for dodgy photography, it's really not my forte.

Til next time folks, keep squeeing!

(Don't worry that's not a catch-phrase and it definitely won't be used again. I promise.)

At the start.

Trying to find a way to express the undeniable nerd in yourself is hard I've found. Especially if you're a little bit scared of what your friends/family/random strangers might think (like me). So, hopefully an (almost) anonymous blog might help. Even if no-one reads it and it gets lost among all the other dregs of the internet.

I think I've always been a nerd, I don't think it's something you learn or succumb to, I was a nerd from birth. I remember sitting up on a Sunday night to watch Star Trek with my dad and I guess he's the one I have to thank for my adoration of all things sci-fi. I developed an early obsession with all things Buffy, Voyager and Farscape (shocking I know). I loved science and learned things like red-shift at the tender age of 7. Unfortunately, my academic abilities haven't allowed me to follow this but that's another story.

Anyway, when I started secondary school my nerdiness had to be suppressed in order to fit in, something I'm not really proud of but such things are necessary at schools like mine. When I got to university it suddenly started to make a reappearance mainly due to the fact that I learned it's ok to like things that other people don't (shock horror). This really started with Battlestar Galactica and proceeded to Star Trek: Enterprise in swift succession. I discovered that sci-fi had much more to it than just a good story and adventure (the kind I liked when I was younger) but could encompass all the things I'd come to hold as important as I grew up.

As I finished uni I faced 2 months of unemployment and this ended up being filled with Stargate. How did I stop watching this when I was younger? It's AMAZING! And so I was introduced to a world of fan fiction, the Nerdist, The Guild and all manner of nerdy things. A lot of this was through Twitter as well. I also discovered that sci-fi fans and nerds of all kinds tend to be the nicest and most accepting community. It doesn't matter what you like, there are other people out there willing to discuss it with you. So now, 3 months on, I seem to have transformed into someone who is much more at ease with themselves and happier to have an outlet for something I have come to realise is just a part of who I am.

Well, this was supposed to be a little bit funny but has turned into more of a confessional... Next time more fan girl wannabe stuff, such as waiting up for a Twitter reply and the like...