My dad is a Trekkie

I am putting it out there once and for all: my dad is a trekkie. But it's not just my dad, its his three brothers too. I do not believe that my dad has reached the point that he would make the video. The only abnormal trekkie matter that we have accumulated in our household are Christmas tree ornaments. They are a little bizarre, but I do not see them as being over the top. One of my uncles, I fear, is video material. I noticed the problem a few years ago when I called my cousin and the answering machine picked up featuring each member of my uncle's family as a member of the "star ship" asking the caller to leave a message. At Christmas of the same year I noticed another oddity, my uncles license plate read "entprsC." Any Trekkie would know this is to be translated Enterprise C (which, fittingly, was the lost enterprise). When I eventually went over to his house around Christmas time, I found that he too had collected Christmas tree ornaments, but he had also collected other paraphernalia (dolls, uniforms, pictures, etc.) At first I was disturbed by the obsession, but then I came to the conclusion that all of us have our obsessions. Mine happens to be the Middle East. Yours might be music. Also, I was thinking that the people featured on the video have families, just like my Uncle is my family member. Okay, so this might not seem like a big deal, but coming to the realization that they have families helped make them more human to me. Their obsessions might get overlooked in their families because, hopefully, their families have some sort of unconditional love for them that does not see the oddities, or at least is able to look past these behaviors. So, that is my thought, placing the so-called weird people in a family context help make them seem more human/normal.