User:CaptainNaomiWildman

=About Me=

Why CaptainNaomiWildman?
I'm CaptainNaomiWildman, aka Vanessa Zee. Voyager was the first Star Trek I fell in love with (you can't blame me for being too little to watch when it first aired), which was less than a few years ago. And what made me want to watch it? Seeing Naomi Wildman in the Forest of Forever. Of course, you can't just watch one series of Star Trek, right? So of course the first thing I did was pull out my laptop, got on the internet, and began reading in depth about Voyager, then expanded on to the other series. And of course, the timing of my obsession couldn't be better. Exactly one week after seeing VOY's, I met my boyfriend. . . who happens to have been a mega star trek fan all his life. It was too crazy. We have lots of debates, especially over time travel and the borg. It gets to be so ridiculous, I end up cracking up in the middle, leaving him confused.

So, of course I had to make my screen name CaptainNaomiWildman. It was the least I could do. After all, I never would have been able to talk to my boyfriend about anything if I hadn't seen her.

TV Tastes
I have a theory (I have many theories, actually but this is only one of them). My theory is that there is a "trekkie gene". I'm not saying that someone has to have this gene to love sci-fi or that just because their ancestors do, they will too or vis versa. I'm just saying that, especially if you want to go into the whole nature vs. nurture debate, that children of sci-fi lovers may love it too because of that, hence my "trekkie gene" (not that this is always the case, but it is for me).

And what made me realize this? Well, One day I was watching Star Trek and working on a project for school having to do with CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. The commercials came on and, being on the sci-fi channel, I saw a preview for Doctor Who. Which made me remember that my father has all, and I mean all, of the original Doctor Who episodes on VHS. And that's when it hit me.

All of my favorite shows, with the exception of Friends and some Disney and Nickelodeon shows I rarely watch, are sci-fi. Of course CSI is a stretch but it still is science fiction. And so I tried to see if I really did watch as much sci-fi as I thought, so I made a list of all the shows I watch. They include: Star Trek Voyager, Star Trek Deep Space Nine, Star Trek Enterprise, Star Trek The Original Series, Star Trek The Next Generation, Doctor Who, Code Lyoko, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: Miami, and Friends. And I realized that was it. From that list, only one show isn't sci-fi.

And of course, I only thought, "How cool is that?" If only my friends felt as enthusiastic about my revelation. ..

Life Outside of Star Trek
Star Trek isn't the only thing in my life--although it is a big part of it. I love to watch the shows and read the books and fanfics (and even write some, too). But I do have other interests. One of them is soccer. I just love the sport. It is fantabulous (another one of my quarks--making up and using funny sounding words). I also l-o-v-e LOVE dogs and puppies. The irony of the situation is that I have a cat--not a dog. But I'm fine with it. As soon as I get my own place, I'm getting a dog. It's that simple. However, since I'm still in high school, not much I can do about it.

When I'm not reading (and usually it's a some star trek book) I'm writing. I typically write fantasy and science fiction because they are the best writing genres. Where else can you make something so unrealistic and unbelievable be believable and realistic? Even before my "trekkie gene" revelation and star trek, I have always loved writing fantasy and science fiction.

=Me and Star Trek=

Star Trek: Voyager
I always laugh when I think about how I fell in love with Star Trek because I wasn't even doing anything related to Star Trek when it happened. So what had I been doing?

Well, I had been sitting on my couch, trying to find something to watch. Nothing good was on--not much really is between five and six where I live--and I was waiting for CSI to start on Spike in twenty minutes. I knew Star Trek Voyager was on before CSI. I was really board so I decided to turn it on. Star Trek couldn't have been that bad. I had seen the last minute of a few shows turning it on just before the start of CSI, but that was it. Of course, my mother was clueless about Star Trek say that it was all about people getting lost and finding their way home, which was true about Voyager but not so much about the others. And I had vague memories of seeing a person in the Voyager science uniform, who looked like Seven of Nine, when I was little. Other than that, I had no clue as to what was going on.

So imagine my surprise to see Naomi Wildman. I was shocked and excited. Seeing Naomi for that short period made me what to know more about her and so I was off the the Internet.