Subj : Re: One hundred and twenty-nine Trekkies...
To   : alt.tv.star-trek.tos,alt.startrek
From : ToolPackinMama
Date : Tue Oct 18 2005 03:47:42

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos

ANIM8Rfsk wrote:
> in article dqR4f.14626$Hm3.6944@fe09.lga, Glassman at jksinrod@aol.com wrote
> on 10/17/05 10:44 AM:

>>When you change it to "Trekkers" I'd then consider it Mama..... the title
>>"Trekkies" conjures up all kinds of childish negative images for me...
>>sorry.
>>
> 
> Yep.  It was always intended as an insult, and to use it otherwise is simply
> wrong.
> 

That is false.  We called ourselves Trekkies from the start.  Gene 
Roddenberry called us Trekkies.  It's not an insult.  It's the original, 
proper, classic term.

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