I'm just as self-conscious and fearful of attention as you are, you know.  Well maybe not quite as fearful, but I certainly don't enjoy being the center of attention.  I'm not at all the type to dress up like Pac-Man or the O RLY owl or Lt. Uhura, but one, it's a sci-fi convention, so something like that would cause us to stand out LESS, not more, and two, there's something about you that makes me go all silly in the head.

When I'm with you, I don't care what anyone else thinks because all that matters is you.  Whenever you suggest something crazy or ridiculous for us to do together, it sounds awesome to me because it's romantic and spontaneous and makes me all weak in the knees.

So it breaks my heart not that you didn't want to dress up as a Star Trek character, specifically, but that you didn't think it sounded fun the same way I did and that you didn't think the symbolism was romantic.  The spontaneity that delights me so when YOU suggest it just dropped to the floor with a thud, and so that was just difficult.  I just wanted to do something exciting and embarrassing and fun that I wanted to do for once, not just you...

Plus, as I said, I didn't mean those two characters specifically but rather the symbolism.  I was okay with dressing up in a yellow T-shirt with a big bow in my hair and a pearl necklace... Why was a silly uniform any different?  If that's asking too much, then I shudder to think what will happen when I really need you to do something big for me...