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A funny story about the Picard sticker, which my friend got me at the San Antonio Star Trek convention. I was on the jury panel (with 119 of my luckless fellow citizens) for a major murder trial in SA, and we had to fill out a long questionnaire, including "What bumper stickers do you have on your vehicle?"

When I was questioned by the attorneys, nobody asked about "I'm part of the Nicaraguan Resistance!" but the defense attorney asked about "Picard for President". "Who's Picard?" he wondered. I asked the judge, a distinguished white-haired Latino gent, "Do I have to answer?" and he said, "Yes," so I said, "He's the captain of the Starship Enterprise!"

The judge cracked up, the prosecutor cracked up, even the defendant cracked up. Later (after I'd told both attorneys that I didn't believe either one of them wanted an impartial jury, but rather each wanted a jury on his side), the judge said, "I've had so much fun having you in my courtroom, Ms. Tax-chick, and you may tell the clerk on your way out that you are Dismissed for Cause!"