We've all been there in one form or another, at late night giggle fests after long rounds of Table Top Gaming. These events bring Mountain Dew inspired philosophizing about which comic book character bests sums up your life's views and your personality, impromptu wrestling matches, and Funyon fights because you are TOO Wolverine damn it!

These conversations are an important part of understanding the culture behind the geek, and become the keystone to unraveling the mysteries of their behavior. Now we're pleased to bring you a new daily column that looks at both the question, and the behavior as we explain to you exactly why it really is an "action figure".

Our Debut piece looks into the question:

""Why do geeks behave like the Star Trek Universe is a real place?"

The answers are not always pretty.

This is also because like the fictional "Federation", the United States seems to think that it is their job to protect the world. Just like the Federation, we put on a smug sense of superiority while pretending to respect and observe the cultures and diversities of people foreign to us with a quiet reverence no matter how badly they weird us out. We offer them the olive branch of friendship, and extend forth a hand of equality and learning...

And then somewhere about 25 minutes into the episode, we have to blow the ever loving snot out of them - in a respectful and understanding way, of course.

Read on if you dare and enter the world of It's All Geek to Me.