Why isn't "trekkie" hate speech?

Or, better yet:

Is that where our star-crossed lovers, Data and C-3P0, get it on?

I just have to say, this is one of the better parody threads that have evr existed.
And it even touches on some real concerns of Trek fans.

I prefer the word Trekker. It’s the official term used by convention sponsors. The word Trekkie was made up by outsiders to describe convention goers in the mid 70s.

While either term is technically correct, I prefer the aesthetics of Trekker. While I may inform people of this pref, it really doesn’t bother me.*

Plus, I just love Starbuck, Scully, Fifi, Apollo, the Brigadeer, heck everyone on Moonbase Alpha!

:confused: What do you mean, those aren’t Star Trek?

*It’s just a TV show, for God’s sake! We did it on a lark for a few years in the 60s. You there! With the ears… Have you ever even kissed a girl? Get a life, people!

Damn trekkie!

:wink:

By the way, Early Out, that was excellent. :cool:

‘Trekker’ is an official designation, as recognised by the Oxford English Dictionary.

It’s time to come out of the closet, I used to be a trekker.

:gasps from audience:

It was a phase, like puberty, but without the sex. In fact it was anti-puberty. But it’s over now. Those days are gone and I have buried all evidence of said crime in the nearby forest. :stuck_out_tongue:

A reasonable statement until The Adventures of Jar Jar was released in theatres worldwide…

You beat me to it.

Speaking Ex Derriere, it is Trekkie. This was passed on to me at the first big Star Trek convention, Summer 1976 in Chicago. There I was apprised of this fact in a personal discussion with both Harlan Ellison and William Shatner. I also took the Ellison pledge to never, ever use the term Sci-Fi.

Glad I could clear that up.

QtM, fan of TOS when it first came out, and student of the writings of JRRT. NOT a Trekkie or Trekker.

:wink:

You would deny your inner geekness 3 times? Oh, the perfidity that is Qadgop!

Besides, caring whether or not it is called Sci-Fi just confirms your geekness! :smiley:

Hey, that works!

“Threepio, Threepio, wherefore art thou, Threepio?”

Clang-thump Clang-thump Clang-thump.

QtM is right, though. To all of us super geeks who are into Trek, Wars, Elves, Known Space, Lensmen, Doctors (fine chap, all of them), we refer to the genre of the franchise of Star Trek as Trek-Fi.

Long live Dorothy! Fontana, that is…

Abeedabeedabeedabeeda…Hey, Buck!

No, that was just another nail in the coffin.

Those goddamn Ewoks were the first major symptom of decline.

And disdain for the term Sci-Fi is spitting in the face of my revered childhood literary mentor Forrest J. Ackerman.

Forry ROCKS!

Next Generation* was the best. Lightyears better than the original. Picard could kick Kirk’s ass from here to the Horsehead Nebula. And never take one bite of the scenery.

And that is how Picard fails. Lack of scenery biting.

MUST STOP REPLYING TO THIS THREAD!!!

Hey! What happened to the extended spaces in my capitalized reply? CAN’T…SOUND…SHATNERIAN…WITHOUT…them.

No one ever types Shatner right. It’s not just… the pauses… or the RANDOM emphasis… oncertainwords. You’ve got to KNOW… when to… runthewordstogether… or the whole… EFFECT… isruined!

Unfortunetly, there’s no “Stagey, affected hand gesture” smiley to make the impersonation complete.

I must be the only person in the world who liked Janeway best. (Yes, I even liked her voice. Okay, I’ll sit down now…)

Does Artoo know about this?