Here is an image of Trekkies demonstrating at NBC studios because NBC canceled Star Trek: http://allyourtrekarebelongto.us/1960s-stfans.jpg There wasn't one "Trekker" among them.

Trekkie claims auctioned prop was a fake By DAVID B. CARUSO, Associated Press Writer Fri Dec 28, 7:04 PM ET http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071229/ap_en_tv/star_trek_auction_1 NEW YORK - A Trekkie who paid $6,000 for a poker visor that was supposedly worn by the android Data on the television show "Star Trek: The Next Generation"...

Trekkies 12pm – 2pm Seven Sunday 1 April 2007 Denise Crosby of Star Trek: The Next Generation hosts this intriguing and often-humourous documentary about the Star Trek fan-omenon. Interviewing hundreds of devoted fans and cast members - including Leonard Nimoy, Deforest Kelley, Walter Koenig, and Brent Spiner - the film creates an entertaining and endearing portrait of a series which ...

...school. I was never exposed to Sci-fi as official reading material until I got to high school, and that is only (probably, IMHO) because of the cultural influence of Star Trek. I am a Trekkie in every sense of the word. SO SUE ME. :) I'm a bit older than you... loved sci-fi before Trek, loved the original series, and call myself a Trekker. If you'd just come out and...

...had never read any Sci-fi. I knew nothing about Sci-fi before Star Trek. This (IMHO) was not my fault. No Sci-fi was required reading in my public school. I was never exposed to Sci-fi as official reading material until I got to high school, and that is only (probably, IMHO) because of the cultural influence of Star Trek. I am a Trekkie in every sense of the word. SO SUE ME. :)

ToolPackinMama wrote: You are a Trekkie. Just go with it. http://allyourtrekarebelongto.us/trekkie.htm

GeneK wrote: "Anim8rFSK" <ANIM8Rfsk@cox.net> wrote Here we vary. I'd say Trekkers rolled in the aisles and Trekkies didn't get it. I suppose one's perception is colored by which group one belongs to. My reaction to "trekker" vs "trekkie" is still, "ok, whatever," so I don't know which one best fits me. You are a Trekkie. Just go with it.

... a decade away. My recollection is somewhat different. The term "trekkie" was originally science-fiction con speak, and was a derisive term...just discoveries in Sci-fi fiction, but in life. In any case, Trekkie is the word that is properly used to designate a Star Trek fan. Too bad if Sci-fi fans (who are probably also Trekkies) have a problem with that.

... Trek wanted to distance themselves from a) the fans (and not necessarily just children) who put on Spock ears and pointed plastic phasers at everyone But that's what *I* thought: that some Trekkies wanted to think of themselves as better then others. For God's sake, man, can't you see that you are only encouraging me? They don't think of themselves as ...

... Trek wanted to distance themselves from a) the fans (and not necessarily just children) who put on Spock ears and pointed plastic phasers at everyone But that's what *I* thought: that some Trekkies wanted to think of themselves as better then others. For God's sake, man, can't you see that you are only encouraging me? They don't think of themselves as ...