# Real Life Community of Trekkies? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 3, 2003, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-life-community-of-trekkies/166099 "2003-04-03T01:19:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SandWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8491ac/32.png) [@SandWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SandWriter)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2003, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-life-community-of-trekkies/166099/1 "2003-04-03T01:19:35Z")
Hey All, In an argument with a coworker it came up about the existance of a community, in real life, that had dedicated itself to living by the Star Trek Federation laws. I thought there was a gated community in the USA or something where you could go and live as a member of the federation. I searched on Google, Star Trek community town based federation, and got a bunch of hits, but nothing indicating the existance of such a community. Does there exist now, or has there ever existed, in real life, a community of people that lived as members of the Star Trek Federation? If so, does it still exist today? Where is/was it located? ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2003, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-life-community-of-trekkies/166099/2 "2003-04-03T10:36:21Z")
I’m a pretty devoted Trekker and I’ve _never_ heard of anything like this in any book, magazine, website I’ve ever read on the subject. I think someone was trying to pull one over on you. For what it’s worth, there’s a town in Iowa named Riverside that is the “official” future birthplace of James Kirk in the 23rd Century. That’s the closest I can come to helping you out. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Earthworm\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f07891/32.png) [@Earthworm\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earthworm_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2003, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-life-community-of-trekkies/166099/3 "2003-04-03T12:39:29Z")
There’s Ms. [Barbara Adams](http://www.cnn.com/US/fringe/9603/03-14/trek.html), an individual who made the new and is apparently living by Federation law. Not quite an entire community, though. I’ve never heard of an entire community, but maybe this is what you’re thinking of? ---
**Author:** ![critter42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@critter42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/critter42)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2003, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-life-community-of-trekkies/166099/4 "2003-04-03T14:12:35Z")
I reposted the question to a Star Trek fan club list I’m on ([Starfleet International](http://www.sfi.org), [http://www.sfi.org](http://www.sfi.org) ), so we’ll see what kind of response I can get from them 🙂 critter42 ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2003, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-life-community-of-trekkies/166099/5 "2003-04-03T14:37:28Z")
I love Star Trek in all its incarnations, with the possible exception of DS9. I have loved Trek ever since we used to watch it in syndication during my freshman and sophomore years in college, 1975-1977, dreaming of the yet to be released first movie. But a Federation community? I don’t want to go there! ---
**Author:** ![SandWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8491ac/32.png) [@SandWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SandWriter)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2003, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-life-community-of-trekkies/166099/6 "2003-04-03T15:57:03Z")
Beelzebubba, I saw her story in the [movie](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6305582394/qid=1049385231/sr=8-4/ref=sr_8_4/102-7908075-8715301?v=glance&s=video&n=507846). That was not what I was thinking of. I thought the community wore normal clothes. Critter42, Thanks for the cross post. I’m very interested in the results. Aesiron, Spectre, Thanks for the responses. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2003, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-life-community-of-trekkies/166099/7 "2003-04-03T21:15:42Z")
Ugh… Trekkies. Even as a huge Trek geek, the people in that movie _really_ freaked me out. ---
**Author:** ![critter42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@critter42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/critter42)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2003, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-life-community-of-trekkies/166099/8 "2003-04-04T01:25:24Z")
well, nothing concrete yet, but a couple of people remember it - they seem to think it was around the late 80s/early 90’s timeframe. I’ll report if anymore is found/remembered about it. critter42 ---
**Author:** ![SandWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8491ac/32.png) [@SandWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SandWriter)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2003, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-life-community-of-trekkies/166099/9 "2003-04-04T16:13:35Z")
Aesiron - Yep, that was a weird movie, esp. that guy that dressed up as the wife of a dead character and sang alien love songs or something, _shiver_ Critter42 - Thanks for the update. That’s about what I remembered. ---
**Author:** ![kasuo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8c91f0/32.png) [@kasuo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kasuo)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2003, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-life-community-of-trekkies/166099/10 "2003-04-04T16:20:54Z")
So would the ST community go to war with a SW community if it existed? And who would win? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![SandWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8491ac/32.png) [@SandWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SandWriter)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2003, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-life-community-of-trekkies/166099/11 "2003-04-04T16:32:54Z")
Kasuo - I think you’re going to have to start a new thread on that one. I believe it has been discussed before in Great Debates. Live long and may the force allow you to prosper. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2003, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-life-community-of-trekkies/166099/12 "2003-04-04T18:14:28Z")
**SandWriter,** You’re thinking of a place called “Federation Township,” a hidden refuge for the Roddenberilly inclined. It was mentioned in a blurb in _Maxim_ a year or two ago, but keep two things in mind: They wouldn’t say what state it was located in, and nothing torpedoes one’s credibility like citing _Maxim._ ---
**Author:** ![SandWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8491ac/32.png) [@SandWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SandWriter)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2003, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-life-community-of-trekkies/166099/13 "2003-04-05T00:13:52Z")
Krokodill, Not only no state, and from Maxim, but searching Google with “Federation Township” only turns up four hits, none of which point to a trekkie community. Doh! Maybe it’s cloaked? The good news is that your post shows you were reading the articles… ---
**Author:** ![SandWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8491ac/32.png) [@SandWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SandWriter)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2003, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-life-community-of-trekkies/166099/14 "2003-04-05T00:14:59Z")
oops, Krokodil, one L, one L! ---
**Author:** ![Matsky1981](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@Matsky1981](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Matsky1981)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2003, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-life-community-of-trekkies/166099/15 "2003-04-05T01:33:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Krokodil \* > \*\ ***SandWriter,** > You’re thinking of a place called “Federation Township,” a hidden refuge for the Roddenberilly inclined. It was mentioned in a blurb in _Maxim_ a year or two ago, but keep two things in mind: They wouldn’t say what state it was located in, and nothing torpedoes one’s credibility like citing _Maxim._ \*\* I read that article and the township was a fake, Maxim saying that several other news agencies phoned them wondering where this place was…