Do you tend to ID yourself as a Trekker or a Trekkie?
Gives reasons if you wish.
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[Please avoid the stupid snark that often comes up in these types of threads. If you aren’t into one or more of the Treks, just avoid this thread, it’s really that simple.]
When I first got deep into Trek (watched since first run TOS, followed early syndication like a religion almost, went to early conventions), I was called a Trekkie. People like to attach labels, I didn’t mind.
With TNG and the Nitpickers Guild, I started calling myself a Trekker. Trekkie seemed TOO nerdy, was reserved in my mind for those guys that perform Klingon operas in their Mom’s basement.
Now, I don’t really care what others call my fandom. I tend to still refer to it as my being a Trekker, tho. The differences seem mostly semantic to me now.
Trekkie, it’s what I learned first and I don’t particularly care about the impetus to exclusion and marginalization exemplified by those using the “Trekker” label.
I have no Spock ears, never built a model of the NCC-1701, and have no idea what Nichelle Nichols favorite color is, but if I had to pick a label, I would call myself a Trekkie. Just not a very good one, obviously.
Trekker seems to me to be a latter-day deflection of the uber nerd tag, and I just never felt the need for the re-branding. Personal opinion, of course, and not a slight against any self-identified Trekkers in the house.
Someone who is a fanatical devotee of the show Star Trek, especially if they take it to the extreme of dressing up in costume, attending Star Trek conventions, collecting show memorabilia, etc., is a trekkie.
A trekker is either someone who is on (or has been on) on a trek, or else a trekkie who is deluded enough to think that if they can avoid the label “trekkie”, and insist upon some other, very similar, label, somehow non-fans of the show will not think that they are a nerd. Actually, what this shows it that they are even more nerdy than the other trekkies are.
Although I liked the show in its first two incarnations (I lost interest somewhere in the middle of Deep Space Nine) I do not believe I was ever sufficiently devoted to it to be considered either a trekkie or a trekker (though I may be a nerd for other reasons).
I’m a huge fan of all incarnations (except Voyager and JJ Abrams of course), but only passively. My only collectible is a Starfleet keychain. Oh, and a UFP passport that someone gave me.
I’ll answer to either term, but I don’t think I really earned it.
I am a “Star Trek fan”. I have watched many episodes of the various Star Trek series. I’ve seen all of the TNG- and Abrams- era movies at least once (I never really got into TOS, but I’ll give an episode a chance every now and then). I’ll happily chat about Star Trek with other fans. I’ll tune in to the occasional re-run.
I don’t consider myself to be a hardcore fan, though. I have never gone to a convention, I have never acquired any collectibles, and I don’t expect that I’ll ever dress up as a Star Trek character even on Halloween. So if someone asks me if I’m a Trekkie, I say I’m not, because I have the distinct impression that the term Trekkie connotes someone who is into conventions, collectibles, and costumes. I used to think that Trekker meant a non-hardcore Star Trek fan. However, upon seeing how weird and hostile some people get over that term, I have decided to avoid it.
I would call myself a “Trekkie”, because it’s the term that is more likely to be understood outside of a very narrow demographic. If someone told me that they were a trekker, my first thought would be that they do long-distance hiking.
Nailed it. And I don’t have any animosity towards Trekkies. In fact I’m kinda jealous. I’d like to go to a convention some day and shake hands with Bill Shatner. But to me Trekkies are like those fans depicted in the infamous SNL “Get a life” sketch who are obsessed with finding out the combination to Kirk’s safe.
I’m not really that much of one anymore but I was a major one when I was a kid. I’m a Trekkie. I think the whole “Trekker” thing just reeks of unnecessary pretension.
It may surprise some of you who have read my posts in other Star Trek threads, but I don’t consider myself any kind of hardcore Trek fan. I like TOS, quite a bit of TNG, occasional episodes of other series, and several of the movies. Voyager, I found…regrettable, and I felt that DS9 was actually burdened, in many respects, by being part of Trek. In truth, the main thing that appeals to me is the marvelous scope for geeking out and retconning things.
If someone feels it qualifies me for a fandom label, it matters little to me which. It would be as well to call me a Whovian, or a Dresdenphile, or a Browncoat, or even a Brony. I am a geek, and I like what I like. Labels are irrelevant.
Both and neither. I am a fan of a lot of stuff in the science fiction/fantasy genre. I have been to conventions, I have worn costumes, I have some collectibles and autographs*. I was even in some Star Trek clubs at one time but then I got more interested in other stuff and didn’t focus on Star Trek anymore. So I may have been and could still be labeled a Trekkie but I just prefer “fan”.
*I probably have an equal amount of collectibles from different shows/movies. I tend to buy these things because I like them, not because I think they will be valuable at some point.
