Subj : Re: One hundred and twenty-nine Trekkies... To : alt.tv.star-trek.tos,alt.startrek From : PzKfw Bob Date : Wed Oct 19 2005 11:56:49 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos ToolPackinMama wrote in news:Ou2dnTqXJJu4Q8jeRVn-pw@comcast.com: > Glassman wrote: >> "ToolPackinMama" wrote in message >> news:G8SdnTZ9YJIGOs3eRVn-jg@comcast.com... >> >>>...are members of my Trek fanfic group! >>> >>>There's always room for one more. :) >>> >> >> >> 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. > > Well, SORRY, but the term "TREKKERS" is negative to me. We once were > all Trekkies, then the (post-TNG) "Trekkers" came along. > > In my experience, Trekkers are snobs. Trekkers like to think that > they are somehow better than Trekkies (original fans), but IMHO they > are not. > > > Frankly it's a moot point as all people who are not fans, considers us Trekkies, I think the term is even now in some dictionaries. Anyway, we are all fans, who cares of the label. IMHO, Bob -- "Whenever in future wars the battle is fought, panzer troops will play the decisive role..." Heinz Guderian, General der Panzertruppe, "Achtung! Panzer!" "Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest." -Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784) .