# How's your Trekdar?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hows-your-trekdar/96677>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 3, 2001, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hows-your-trekdar/96677 "2001-12-03T19:44:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![AtomicDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac91a4/32.png) [@AtomicDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AtomicDog)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2001, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hows-your-trekdar/96677/1 "2001-12-03T19:44:14Z")

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…Mine isn’t very good. I can work alongside someone for months and not realize that he or she is a Star Trek fan, until they overhear me talking Trek with someone else; then I find out that they know the last three series backwards and forwards, and they understand me when I curse in Klingon.

So, fellow dopers, can you tell when someone’s a Trekkie?

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**Author:** ![Opengrave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/919ad9/32.png) [@Opengrave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Opengrave)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2001, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hows-your-trekdar/96677/2 "2001-12-03T20:04:28Z")

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Usually my Trekdar is pretty good. My PythonDar is even better!

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2001, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hows-your-trekdar/96677/3 "2001-12-03T20:47:28Z")

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I’m a physics major. Everyone I ever meet is a Trek fan to some degree. Of course, it gets a bit more obvious when one of them wears a Starfleet Admiral’s uniform to class, or something…

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**Author:** ![Estilicon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/848f3c/32.png) [@Estilicon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Estilicon)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2001, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hows-your-trekdar/96677/4 "2001-12-04T01:41:51Z")

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A person that can curse in Klingon is not only a Trek fun but also a mental case 🙂