Nerdgasm explosion!

Austin Trekkies gathered at the famous Alamo Drafthouse cinema on South Lamar Street (Best. Chocolate malts. Evar.) on Monday to view a special screening of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. The show was being hosted by Harry Knowles from Ain’t it Cool News and attendees would get to ask questions of the screenwriters and producer of the new ST movie that’s opening in May. It’s nerd paradise, basically, and had I been in Austin Monday night, you can bet I’d have been there with my chocolate malt and popcorn.

So apparently, as the opening credits for STII rolled, the film burned and stopped and the lights came up in the theater as they tried to fix the problem. The special guests (the screenwriters and producer of the new ST movie) decided to take some questions from the audience. As they’re talking, Leonard Nimoy walks up to the front of the theater carrying a 35mm film canister. Naturally everyone in the room went crazy. Nimoy flashed his Spock gang sign, took a microphone, and proceeded to explain what a shame it was that 3 hours hence from that moment, the new Trek film would premiere in Australia. It was then that the fans realized that they had actually walked into the world premiere of Star Trek.

Here’s some cell phone video of the moment…

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On April 8, 2009, JIMO said:

What’s the buzz for the new film? The trailers look promising…
On April 11, 2009, andrew dalio said:

HOLY FRAKKIN’ SH*T!!! That was the night Gen, the Bug, and I arrived in Austin! This happened 100 yards from us, and we DIDN’T EVEN KNOW! AARRGGHH!! (Now back in NOLA, and sobbing quietly…).
On April 16, 2009, odum said:

I keep coming back to this, and I think you may mean mean geek-gasm or possibly dorkgasm. As I understand it, nerds are the obsessively academic-to-the-point-of-poor-socialization types. A nerdgasm moment might, for example, be the discovery of another thousand-digit extension of the value of Pi.

A geek though, I believe is an obsessive fanboy type – again, often to the point of being socially challenged. I am probably a comic book geek. I am definitely a ST geek, in that way too much of my brain is taken up by ST trivia and information, and it always seems desperate to break out of my brain into my mouth and socially awkward or inappropriate moments, bringing by socialization into question.

A dork on the other hand is probably a more inclusive term for the more generally socially awkward, and could include members of either previous group – and probably others.

I dunno. Am I off base here?

….and JIMO, the buzz is awesome. 100% Tomatometer already. Woo-hoo!!!
On April 16, 2009, odum said:

Man. This comment feature needs a preview option so I can catch all my typos. Yerg.