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Father's Day Gifts for your dad's Inner Geek

Three days until Father's day and here at Culture Shock we're featuring two father's day gift suggestions (one splurge, one budget conscious) every day between now and Saturday June, 21 -- at which point, you're on your own.

Today's featured gifts:

STAR TREK DVDs ($64- $187)

Did excitement over the new Star Trek movie get your dad revved up about the old series all over again, or make him bitterly nostalgic for the Shatner/Nimoy era he felt was sullied by these snot-nosed young punks?

Either way, you can make his Father's Day with Star Trek DVDs. You can get the any of the first three seasons remastered (and I mean gorgeously remastered) on DVD for around $70, or all three for around $160.

If dad was a fan of the original movies, you can get an even better deal -- the first six movies in the series, featuring the original crew, for just $64.

PEEK PRONTO E-MAIL/TEXT DEVICE ($20 for the basic model)

Have a dad (or even a granddad) who hasn't yet upgraded to a smartphone? Having trouble convincing them to pay for service that will allow them to get e-mail and text messaging? Here's something of a gateway drug -- the Peek Pronto, basic model starting at $20 with unlimited e-mail (from 2 accounts) and text message service for just $20.00 a month. No contract necessary.

The Pronto - this basic model and its more sophisticated, more expensive cousin - is also available in a variety of different colors at Amazon and Target.

Buy this for him and maybe even get him a a few months of service (it's $16.65 a month if you buy the first quarter up front) and you could have him texting and e-mailing from everywhere in no time at all. I know from whence I speak -- a few years ago I couldn't get my mother interested in MP3s as she felt she'd had to switch formats too often in her life already. I bought her a small, basic MP3 player and today she's surfing the Internet on her iPod Touch, updating her Facebook status while she waits in line at the DMV and buying books from the Kindle store.