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matthew writes: Adam Goldberg and his girlfriend of six months, Rena al Yousif, have called it quits over irreconcilable differences in their choice of fandom. Adam, a long-time Star Trek aficionado, and Rena, a Star Wars fan, were unable to decide how to raise any potential offspring from their relationship.

“It’s really sad that Rena couldn’t come around. At first, we were both really stoked that we’d met another person that was really into sci-fi, but the cultural differences were just insurmountable. We totally got into a huge argument about whether Captain Kirk would be able to take on Darth Vader if their weapons were blinked out of existence by an omniscient race of beings of pure energy who had transported them to a planet of gladiators. She was like “why would that ever happen? What is the physics behind it?” I say physics, schmisics. It’s about the underlying ethical metaphor.”

“The final straw was when I told Rena that I wanted to ‘go where no man had gone before.’ I probably shouldn’t have phrased it that way, in retrospect.”