> Wiseguy wrote:
>

>> The way I remember it is sometime in the mid-seventies, either during
>> or not long after the animated series, serious fans of Star 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?
>

> The way I remember it is sometime in the mid-seventies, either during or
> not long after the animated series, serious fans of Star 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 and b)
> non-fans who denigrated both Trekkies and the term itself. Hence, the
> word Trekker was born. It never completely replaced Trekkie and it had
> nothing to do with the motion pictures and certainly not The Next
> Generation which was more than a decade away.

> "Wiseguy" yahoo.com> wrote in message

>> The way I remember it is sometime in the mid-seventies, either during or
>> not long after the animated series, serious fans of Star Trek wanted to...

> Here we vary. I'd say Trekkers rolled in the aisles and Trekkies didn't
> get it.

> "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.
>
> GeneK

> GeneK wrote:

>>
>> "ToolPackinMama" comcast.net> wrote in message
>> news:V7mdnUHSPtNTt1_VnZ2dnUVZ_i2dnZ2d@comcast.com...

>>> GeneK wrote:

>>>> "ToolPackinMama" comcast.net> wrote...

>>>>> Karl Johanson wrote:
>>>>>

>>>>>> To clarify: I heard the term "Trekker" in reference specifically to
>>>>>> Star Trek fans. First time at a Star Trek club meeting in 1979.

>>>>> 1979
>>>>>
>>>>> 1979
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there anyone here who thinks that 1979 came BEFORE 19sixtyanything?

>>>>
>>>> Probably not, but since TNG began in 1987,
>>>> what's sixtyanything got to do with it?

>>> ...

> If you came across both terms together as I assume you did, that's
> understandable. Since I was there before Trekker existed and know what
> we used Trekkie for, and remember the TV Guide article coming out and my
> telling my best friend that we were going to be living down the term
> 'Trekkie' for the rest of our lives, I'm fairly hard and fast on this.

> BTW, the wikipedia article on trekkies says the first
> Star Trek con was 1976, which is incorrect. I definitely
> remember going to my first one while I was still in
> college and I graduated before 1976.
>
> GeneK
>

> ToolPackinMama wrote:

>> It seems that people here are telling me that "Trekker" was born before
>> TNG.
>>
>> Interesting.
>>
>> So the "Trekkies are ghey, let's call ourselves Trekkers" movement began
>> BEFORE TNG?
>>
>> Interesting.
>>
>> That doesn't change the FACT that original fans call themselves Trekkies,
>> and that Roddenberry confirmed that in his view Trekkies was the correct
>> term.

>
> I have to ask, WHY some Trekkies felt the need to promote the word
> "Trekker" in preference to "Trekkie" when referring to themselves.
>
> ? ...