> ToolPackinMama comcast.net> wrote in
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>> 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.
>>
>> ?
>>
>> Can somebody please explain that to me?
>>
>> And please, be explicit.

>
> 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.
>
>