This part of the web will be how ST affected me, changed my life, and gave me a world to live in.
My very 1st convention was at the New York Hilton, in 1976.
Here's a pic of me and Spock's Daddy Sarek, Actor Mark Lenard.
Notice that I'm wearing an IDIC (Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations). Lovely Vulcan concept.
Vulcan IDIC
In the fictional Star Trek universe, the Vulcan IDIC symbol itself is a circle and triangle of white and yellow gold metals resting upon each other, and adorned with a white jewel in the center. The symbol represents the Vulcan philosophy of IDIC ("Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations"), an idea that is often seen as an underlying philosophy of not only the Vulcans, but also a main focus in the message behind the TV show Star Trek. According to an episode of Star Trek: Voyager, Vulcans call the symbol a kol-ut-shan.[1]
In the series Star Trek: Enterprise, T'Pol is given, through her in-name-only husband Koss, an IDIC pendant from her mother T'Les which projects a holographic relief, enabling T'Pol and Captain Archer to find the location where T'Les and the Syrrannites are hiding.
Also in Star Trek: Enterprise, T'Pol, the science officer, holds an IDIC pendant in Terra Prime while she is in mourning for her dying cloned child Elizabeth, named in honor of Charles "Trip" Tucker's deceased sister.
In the series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Take Me Out to the Holosuite", Captain Solok, an Academy classmate and longtime rival of Benjamin Sisko, challenges Sisko and other DS9 personnel to a baseball game against his Vulcan team, the Logicians. The IDIC symbol appears on the Vulcans' ballcaps.
