Quote Originally Posted by jfellrath
Not been around a lot of Trekkies, have you? I used to work at a comic book shop where we also carried a lot of collectibles... I could stamp "Star Trek" on an ashtray that my sister made in 4th grade art class, call it a "Romulan Ear Wax Scraper Holder," and sell it for $25-50. Those folks will buy almost anything, and if it's actually FROM the series, forget about it.
On the contrary, I've been around a lot of them and I know exactly what you're talking about. I'm a bit of a closet Trekkie myself, but nowhere near that bad.