If You’re Going to Have a ‘Star Trek’ Themed Wedding, the Least You Could Do Is Dress Up As Uhura (VIDEO)

Am I a Star Trek fan? Let's just say that the body modification I had done to my ears to make them into points isn't because I'm into elven culture. Star Trek Into Darkness doesn't come out until May of next year but I'm still refreshing my Apple.com/trailers browser every five seconds just in case a teaser trailer appears (because I looked away for that one second, so you never know, right?). But even as a massive and life-long trekkie, I have to say that I've never understood the convention universe of Star Trek.

If I wanted to spend my money and time hanging around with a bunch of smelly space-alien looking creature,s I would take my niece and nephew back to teh Bronx Zoo. At least there the crap that's being thrown on you is from a monkey and not some guy trying to sell his extra set of Topps 1992 TNG trading cards. Pricetag: $700. But okay, different strokes for different folks. But for one Swedish couple, simply arriving to a convention in Klingon-garb wasn't enough. The marriage of the young Swedes at a London-based Star Trek-convention has become Britain's first official Klingon wedding ceremony. Now before I continue, keep in mind this couple is Swedish. Look at their hands in the video above. They're practically albino. And they're dressed up as Klingons for their wedding. AKA they dressed up in black face for their wedding.

How do you say 'Mazel Tov' in Klingon? Or Swedish for that matter? In any event, the Klingon wedding ceremony for 23-year-old Jossie Sockertopp and 29-year-old Sonnie Gustavsson was as true to possible as an episode of Deep Space Nine in which Worf married. That means Klingon outfits, gongs and a service done in the original Klingon language, eschewing the traditional Swedish wedding tradition of marrying in Greece with Abba music playing in the background.

While I congratulate the happy(?) couple and England on being so progressive with their laws on non-traditional weddings (when will the U.S. realize that a marriage can be something between a man and a woman, but also two Klingons?), I'm still left wondering if this was taking the love for pop culture too far. Hey I love Back to the Future but you don't see me having my wedding reception be an 'Enchantment Under the Sea Dance' theme, do you?

Actually, come to think of it, that would be kind of amazing. Though I'm not sure if I'd go dressed up as Marty or George. No, scratch that, Marvin Berry. Done. Now I just need to convince my fiance to put our 'Just Married' sign onto the back of the DeLorean I still haven't told her I blew my savings on buying.