Is there a preference and why? [?]
Not by me. Either one describes me.
I have always liked Trekkie. [2c]
Rumor has it that after Star Wars, “Trekkie” became a generic term to identify any Sci-Fi fan in the media. Up till them, it only identified Trek Fans. Then in an effort to get away from the grouping, the term “Trekker” was started by a group of fans to identify trek fans only.
As for me, I was a Trekkie since the first day of Star Trek and still call myself one. I even got to be in the Movie “Trekkies” but I wouldn’t recommend anyone waste any of their mony on buying or renting it. Denise Crosby seemed to only focus on the extreme outer reaches of the fans, and neglected to point out all the community service that many of the fans and clubs perform. Rather she made it out that we all have a screw loose. We do of course, but we don’t need her pointing it out.[:D]
Don
I’ve heard it described this way:
A Trekkie can tell you how a phaser works.
A Trekker will shoot you with it.
I like that, Rob. Nicely put. I’ll take the latter.[:)]
I’ve heard it described this way: a Trekkie goes to conventions and dresses up like a character. A Trekker is a serious fan who is more into it for the concepts, ideas, theories, hardware, etc. and is generally considered more “respectable.” Trekkers like to think that Trekkies give them a bad name.
As for me, I’ve been to a number of Star Trek conventions and seen both types in action, and I think this pretty well sums it up. By the way, I’m a Trekker.
Paul
I guess using Paul’s definition I am a “Trekker”. I’ve been there from the beginning. I remember waiting for the end of “Beat the Clock” and sit down and watch Star Trek. I built, yes “built” the original issued Enterprise kit with the LEDs. Loved that kit. It got trashed by my parents. I was lucky enough a few years ago to come across woman who said her son was a real Star Trek Fan and had recently passed away. She had a large box of Trek stuff including 10 of the original kits! They were built but the glue did not hold them together and they were unpainted, but he had glued on paper numbers to the ship . Before the owner of the Model Shop got them, I had was able to get one of them. I stripped it clean. It is in great shape and in its individual pieces. I have also one of the new Enterprise kits (NCC-1701 re-issue) and compared the parts and assembly. Still I don’t know if I should build it.
I still love them Trekkies though. Keep building.
Tony
Paul’s description is the one that I have heard also.
Which would make me a Trekker with Trekkie tendencies (any pic of me in uniform is obviously tampered with).
By paul’s definition, I am a trekker, but I also have trekkie tendencies, but I am mostly TOS.
Lee
Treker, as Paul described.
And that is exactly why I DESPISE the word “Trekker.” What ever happened to IDIC, folks? The whole concept of Trek in the beginning was that in the future, we’d all live together without letting our differences divide us. In fact, we embrace those differences and celebrate the beauty created by them working in harmony. So along comes a sub-group of the very people that are supposed to embrace this notion, and they create their own identity and claim to be superior to the rest of the geeks. Well screw them and the targ they rode in on! No Star Trek fan is better than any other Star Trek fan, folks. We’re in it together.
I’m a Trekkie. I’ve been a Trekkie since 1966. Deal with it.
I used to be Membership secretary of an SF/Star Trek Fan club and I found the Trekkies were a serious embarassment, particularly as a number of us were trying to alter media perceptions of SF fans as sad losers with no lives. Of course, beyond Trekkies are the sad specimens who treat Trek as a religion.
Cripes, if fans of Star Trek can’t get along, who can??
I think “The Firms” Captain Kirk said it best.
“We come in Peace, Shoot to Kill, Men!” [:D] [:-^]
Don [alien]
Ich bin ein Trekker.
Rogue
A aperson who refers to themselves as a “TreKkor” is a truely intense “Trekkie”! It’s the level of pretension that really tips the scale.
Well put John. [^]
That is the trouble with labels, people start to believe the propaganda attached to them. I don’t care what a Star Trek fan calls themself, we are all Trekkies in my eyes.[;)]
If I may quote the ever-logical Spock:[}:)]
"I was not attempting to evaluate its moral implications. . . " (STII:TWOK)
and on another, earlier occasion:
“I do NOT approve - I UNDERSTAND.” (“A Taste of Armageddon” TOS)
That would pretty much sum up how I feel. I wasn’t trying to offend anyone;
just trying to offer a definition. John P: put the phaser down, please![:0]
Ok. I get it. Let’s not start another Dominion, Cardassian, Romulan or Klingon War. (Hey what happened to “peace” in the Galaxy and such.)
Never give up, Never surrender. Damn the photons boys and go at it.
I only asked for a definition since I heard many of them before. Discussion is good. Trek fans lets shake. Both types of fans are just … great fans!
Ok - back to the forum.