I'm a geek. That's not news to anyone who knows me, or anybody who's even seen me. I'm all kinds of geek. Movie geek, horror geek, goth, science fiction geek, gaming geek, and so on, and so on. I've always been proud to be a geek. But I have not, in fact, always been kind to my fellow geeks.

When I was a very young geek and I first started going to science fiction conventions, there was a schism between the Star Trek geeks and the Dr.