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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nisarg" data-source="post: 1737531" data-attributes="member: 19893">Ah yes.. nothing quite so pathetic as the guy who feels its his "duty" as a "starfleet officer" to wear his uniform to the museum opening, new years party, or private party. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" />(its one thing to wear it at a con, then you're just a loser, but wearing it to public events unrelated to ST is truly dysfunctional)But the furthest extremes of pathetic that I encountered was the guy who wore his starfleet uniform during Rememberance day (the Canadian equivalent of memorial day, for you yankees).  That went from pathetic to downright offensive: I'm not a great fan of the military-industrial complex, but those joes gained the RIGHT to wear their uniforms on that day because they were in life-threatening battles, whether fighting for something they believed in or because they were innocent dupes of the government war propaganda, but in either case they paid for it in blood. The pathetic mouth-breather who feels the need to sully that by wearing a FAKE uniform from a FICTIONAL series, and refer to himself as an officer, and pretend he knows how they feel because he's a "military man" too, is someone who merits a well-earned beating from the local Infantry Battalion. Nisarg</blockquote>

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