Subj : Re: Star Trek Into Darkness To : All From : Daniel47@teranews.com Date : Sat Aug 24 2013 19:56:40 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos From Address: dxmm@albury.nospam.net.au Subject: Re: Star Trek Into Darkness Bast wrote: > Daniel47@teranews.com wrote: >> Bast wrote: >> >> >>> Sadly you are correct. >>> Like everything else nowadays, a well known product name, no longer >>> denotes any expected quality, just more cheaply sweatshop-made >>> overpriced crap. But that's why after 40 years, I no longer claim to be a >>> "trekkie", as >>> the farther I distance myself from those newer movies, the better. >>> ...I even managed to hang on through the public humiliation of the >>> voyager and enterprise years,....but there ARE limits. >> >> and there you go, another difference! >> >> As "Bikie" tends to refer to the "hard core", violent, people who ride >> motorcycles, and "Biker" tends to refer to the clean cut person who >> rides a motorcycle, I tend to think of myself as a "Treker", rather than >> a "Trekkie"! >> >> IMO, of course! >> >> Daniel > > > > Strangely enough I once thought the same thing. > Then was told by many Trek people that the "trekker," was the total whacko's > who actually decorated their homes to look like the bridge of the > enterprise. > > So from then I told people I was a trekkie. > Now after the abrams movies,....I publicly deny any knowlege of anything > Trek. > ...But privately still treasure my TOS original issue DVD's, and the VHS > set. Me, myself, I have TOS original issue DVD's, and the TOS Films on VHS tape and DVD (or, at least my neighbour has my film DVD's). Daniel --- Synchronet 3.15a-Linux NewsLink 1.92-mlp # Origin: TeraNews.com (1:2320/105.97) * Origin: CCO BBS - capitolcityonline.net:26 (1:2320/105) .