Rascals: My Star Trek Comfort Episode

Tea: Earl Grey, hot

Image Credit Paramount Studios

I was a Star Trek-obsessed kid. I watched Star Trek 4, The Voyage Home about a dozen times, and I thought Data was the coolest android ever to grace the screen. I really wished I could be BFFs with Wesley Crusher. I made an early TNG uniform out of an aerobics unitard complete with an iron-on combage that my grandma found at a garage sale (I later found out it was a really early…