Star Trek geeks: rejoice. You will soon be able to declare your fanboy/fangirl status from beyond the grave. A company called Eternal Image is offering Trek-themed caskets and urns to house your mortal remains once you’ve beamed up from this mortal coil. The casket looks comfy, but you probably won’t get to be shot out of a photon torpedo tube onto the Genesis planet where you’ll be miraculously rejuvenated. The urn looks like some cheap trinket from the MoMA catalog.
As for me, this kind of stuff is a little too crass for my taste. Sure, I like to get my Trek on, but I don’t want to be stuck on the ground or placed on a shelf encased in a pop culture artifact. Just hire a cadre of beautiful fishnet-stockinged women to dump my ashes in the the Seine and I’ll be happy.
