It's about a group of friends in a New Jersey town dominated by an asbestos factory that's also the engine of the local economy. They're all pretty different but a love of science fiction in general and Star Trek in particular brings them together.

Of course this enthusiasm also brands them as outsiders. Nobody else really understands this or even knows about it.

After attending their first Star Trek convention and winning prizes for their home-made costumes—as well as meeting like-minded people and personal heroes like Nichelle Nichols, William Shatner, Isaac Asimov, Jack Kirby— fandom becomes a consuming passion.

They make different costumes every year, counting on the prize money to recoup expenses. And of course despite this shared orbit, they still drift off in different directions as school, work, family, sex pull at them in different ways.