Whenever someone asks me, "do you like Star Trek"" I feel that I must construct my answer very carefully so as not to give the wrong impression about myself. There can be such a negative stigma associated with being a Star Trek fan. I would never want the person to think that I am some sort of obsessed fanatic who attends Star Trek conventions, learns to speak Klingon or wears Spock ears. I will rather reluctantly admit that, yes, I do like Star Trek and hope that the coming response is not entirely negative. Although my liking of Star Trek does not extend to the lengths that Dawn Hanna's does, I felt an emotional and nostalgic attachment to what her essay entitled Hooked On Trek had to say about Star Trek. In this paper I will demonstrate that Dawn Hanna, in her essay Hooked On Trek (1994), is able...