“Two Types… Star Trek and Star Wars”
In an earlier post, I admitted that in my youth I was more a fan of Star Trek than Star Wars.
After seeing this Macleans piece by Jonathon Gatehouse, I am not only going to retract that statement, I am prepared to deny that I ever made it in the first place.
The Star Trek connection
The first thing detectives from the Toronto police sex crimes unit saw when they entered Roderick Cowan’s apartment was an autographed picture of William Shatner. Along with the photos on the computer of Scott Faichnie, also busted for possessing child porn, they found a snapshot of the pediatric nurse and Boy Scout leader wearing a dress “Federation” uniform. Another suspect had a TV remote control shaped like a phaser. Yet another had a Star Trek credit card in his wallet. One was using “Picard” as his screen name. In the 3 1/2 years since police in Canada’s biggest city established a special unit to tackle child pornography, investigators have been through so many dwellings packed with sci-fi books, DVDs, toys and collectibles like Klingon swords and sashes that it’s become a dark squadroom joke. “We always say there are two types of pedophiles: Star Trek and Star Wars,” says Det. Ian Lamond, the unit’s second-in-command. “But it’s mostly Star Trek.”
For the record, when I was a kid my favourite TV show was Star Trek, uhhh, Hinterland Who’s Who.
October 4th, 2005 at 1:28 am
I had to get a good chuckle out of that. In all fairness my father (Ian Lamond) has always had a bias towards anything sci fi. In fact growing up my favorite show was Star Trek: The Next Generation. He teases me about that all the time. I even went to a sci fi/horror/comic convention a few months ago. Don’t be ashamed of the inner geek. I’m not…and look who I have to answer to about it
October 5th, 2005 at 2:46 pm
I’m not sure what to say about that, only that I’m sure being a Star Trek fan I’ll be offered some kind of protection from her father being as we’re such good friends.