Novelist and literary fiction aficionado Mark Sarvas has a fun post today about his secret past as a phaser-packing Star Trek geek — a revelation inspired by the publication of Captain Kirk’s Guide to Women.

So, I’m a rabid Trek fan, and William Shatner comes to town on his now infamous university lecture tour, the one in which he “sang” Rocket Man. I’ve arrived early and snagged a good seat with my friends, and we are grokking the proceedings. Then come the questions and answers. Someone in the audience asks “Who designed the Enterprise?” to which Shatner answers, incorrectly, “Gene Roddenberry.”

Well, this won’t do. I cup my hands around my mouth and I shout out “Matt Jeffries! Matt Jeffries!” Shatner squints down toward the disruption, points at me, and says, “You. Come up here.”

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