He: “I like the time travel episodes best. Like the one where Tasha comes back and leaves on the Enterprise C, and then a few seasons later she returns as her own daughter.”

Me: “Yeah, good times, good times. Didn’t she just leave the show after the first season?”

He: “She didn’t even make it through the first season, but she must have left on good terms. I mean, she was back for season three and then again in season six. I wonder if they planned that! Do you think they planned out what would happen to her character six seasons out? What if they…what? What is it? Do I have something on my face?”

Me: “You’ve got a little Geek dribbling down your chin. You may want to stop frothing about Star Trek.”