> ToolPackinMama comcast.net> wrote in
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>> 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?
>>

>
> They don't think of themselves as better people, just better fans.