Date: Thu, Aug 8, 1996 3:14 PM EDT

To: info@trekkies2.com

I'm one of the "right wing fanatic West Bank Israeli settlers" seen on American news shows, a extra-religious gun instructor, and a rabid Trekker who exemplifies the worldwide appeal of the Star Trek universe.

My five year old can spot a Beverly Crusher mug in a store window across a major thoroughfare in a strange country, and can identify Patrick Stewart's dulcet tones on commercial voiceovers, and won't go to sleep without her Bev Chrusher holodeck action figure. My seven year old is begging for hair dye so she can look like Gates McFadden (though the young lady is torn between red and blond). My nine year old compares every situation in life to Trek, and wants to have a Klingon uniform for his next Purim costume.

We keep Trek dolls in the car where some people have statues of Saints. We hold Trek screenings for entertainment, in a town where there is no other entertainment. We serve our kids *gagh* (well, chocolate Twizzlers pull and peel--but the kids call them gagh). I write fanfic, and have been published in several fanzines.

My gun got a Klingon name before I did (but neither of us has had our forehead ridges done yet).

And, of course, I have a high Internet Trek profile, being an honorary member of the AOL P/C board, a member of two BonC sandboxes, listmom of one, and babysitter of the next generation of baby Bev fans. I am also a frequent poster to Strek-L, and have inspired several Trek websites, along with writing a serious academic paper on the dominant rhetorical metaphor in TNG.

I live in the settlement of Bracha, on historic Mount Gerezim, home of the Samaritans (as in "The Good Samaritan") right outside Nablus. I've even braved a barrage of *intifada* stones to see "Generations" when it premiered at an Israeli movie theatre.

Althea /AdmiralTAG (a name I had to earn by filking one musical, two rock bands, and at least three national anthems to fit the Trek theme!)

AdmiralTAG