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Does it make you a dork to get excited about spotting an R2-D2 cameo in the newest Star Trek film (on Blu-ray and DVD this week)? Maybe a little bit, but what does it make you to get this excited about such a find? Excited enough to merit 1,800 Diggs in 13 hours?

We've never really understood R2's appeal anyway, so perhaps that clouds our judgment, but we think sci-fi fans are going hilariously overboard about this. Here are some of the choicest comments, including one with which we completely agree:

You can learn a lot from reading comments by obsessive-compulsive sci-fi fans, like the existence of other Star Wars crossovers. This guy points one out, but gets slammed by the Star Wars grammar police:

JediCorran: "probably ILM having a little fun at the star-trek franchise's expense. sweet cameo though. r2d2 and c3p0 also make a cameo in raiders of the lost ark."

BattleChimp: "for some reason i never thought of their names spelled out like that..."

True, the accepted forms are either R2-D2 and C-3P0, or Artoo and Threepio. Deviate, and you'll be sleeping alone in your room at the convention.

Then, there's the guy who squealed "wow its real, at first i didnt believe it," or the multiple iterations of the joke "That's the droid I was looking for," especially egregious because Gizmodo made that joke in their post.

The geekiest comment has got to go to Purple Dave who says, "I dunno ... that looks more like R2-A6 to me."

Most hilariously annoyed ennui goes to ShadowMan99 with "the Millennium Falcon was visible fighting the borg in ST:First Contact. Tributes like this are nothing new in Scifi."

Finally, our favorite comment has got to be from HasslinTheHoff, who says, "If only that was a cold, stiff Jar Jar wheeling endlessly in the vacuum of space..."

We couldn't agree more.