Figure it out. The average life span lasts about 29,000 days. Might sound like a lot, but that's all you get.
So why would you spend a single one at a Star Trek Convention?
The original Star Trek's Captain Kirk, William Shatner, had a lucid moment a few years back when he wondered the same thing.
"I didn't want anything to do with a group of obsessives who paid to get together to talk incessantly about a TV show that had been cancelled. It wasn't logical."
That was then. Apparently in his dotage these days, he made the trek to London this past year in order to revel in the adoration of the obsessives.
How obsessive are they? They're so obsessive that the big event of the two-day fest consisted of setting the record for the largest gathering of people dressed in Star Trek themed costume. The previous record of 1,040 nerds in a room was crushed, as 1,083 Klingons, Vulcans and Ferengis came together to … come together.
One couple really came together, exchanging vows as Klingons, the war-like aliens immortalized by Worf in Star Trek, the Next Generation. They spent their honeymoon at the convention, natch. I can’t help but wonder what happens the first time Jossie tries to bite Sonnie (they’re both Swedish in real life) on the neck (how a Klingon indicates he or she is interested in sex), and Sonnie says “Not tonight dear, jIwuQ (I have a headache). The fur will fly, no doubt.
Not only did trekkers (the politically correct version of “trekkie”) waste two of their 29,000 to pine for a program that went out of production on May 13, 2005, they spent as much as 3,000 British pounds on a ticket.
To be fair, the damn thing is tougher to kill than a Romulan battle cruiser. JJ Abrams directs the next movie – Star Trek Into Darkness – , which documents the further adventures of a reinvented Captain Kirk, set to open on May 17, 2013, eight years later, almost to the day the series died.
How’s that for symmetry? Symmetry is very important when you’re a trekkERRRR.
If this keeps up, Star Trek will eventually catch up to its fictional “real time”, sometime in the 23rd century. In fact, I’m surprised this has never been a Star Trek episode, as it’s right up their alley.
Full disclosure. I used to be a fan, but bailed when the show jumped the shark somewhere between Deep Space Nine and Voyager. 
But I’d like to think I never thought of Scott Bakula (Star Trek captain #5) as “legendary” or the kiss between Captain Kirk and Lieutenant Uhura as a milestone in US race relations.
Yes, all the various Star Treks won 31 Emmys. But Frasier won 37 all by himself, and they don’t have Frasier convention every year with 1,000 Jack Russell terriers called Eddie. At least not yet.