When did people start calling Star Trek for Nerds?

[Christopher]

^But the episode I cited was hardly the first time Happy Days used the word. I can't say for sure if it was used from the start in 1974, but I have no reason to believe it wasn't.

The thing about etymological citations is, the earliest documented reference is never the actual first reference, since new usage generally starts out in everyday conversation that isn't written down or recorded. If both shows used the term around the same time, it's probably because it was already starting to catch on in everyday life.

 

[FormerLurker]

Let's not argue about it, okay? It's more likely that we're both right, at least partially. That being the case, let's not dwell on whether one of us is more right, or whether the other is more wrong. That just makes for unpleasantness.

 

[Kirby]

^^ The one where Frasier ends up making his son's Bar Mitzvah speech in Klingon instead of Hebrew thanks to Noel is one of my favorite episodes of TV ever. Also, it was a nice touch that Freddie's friend was named Jeremy Berman.
A little bit of geek is a nice seasoning to life, we all have our things that we really get into and that's a good thing to embrace.

Noel? You mean Nile?

No, I mean Noel Shempsky played by Patrick Kerr.
Noel works at the radio station, and is a huge Star Trek fan.
Frasier was supposed to give a speech in Hebrew at Freddie's BarMitzvah, and Noel wrote it for him. However, because Frasier failed to get him Scott Bakula's autograph, Noel changed the speech from Hebrew to Klingon.

 

[tharpdevenport]

It was probably after the first convention when news started spreading, and pictures (long before the web) of Trekkies or Trekkers dressing up and attending big gatherings from across the country.

and after the Trekkies read that, we probably started getting what comedian Brian Posehn calls "Nerd rage".

 

[kirkfan]

Hello
I got a question, when did it start when people started to call anyone that likes Star Trek a nerd, did it start with TOS or Next Gen?

I think what does it is wearing plastic Vulcan ears. If you do that you're just asking for trouble.

 

[kirkfan]

When lazy writers got bored nerding TREK fans, they attached it for a time to LORD OF THE RINGS lovers.....probably on the debatable assumption few of Tolkien's readers were women.
''Geek'' seems a more preferable term. The only more boring word than ''nerd'' to me is ''cool.''

Geek'tal in Klingon means "to the death". So, does "geek" mean death?

 

[Kilana2]

Hello
I got a question, when did it start when people started to call anyone that likes Star Trek a nerd, did it start with TOS or Next Gen?

I think what does it is wearing plastic Vulcan ears. If you do that you're just asking for trouble.

When I attended Dr. Zitts Star Trek lecture about Time Travel I was wondering where the people with plastic ears are. Boom, they were sitting right in front of me. And some wore uniforms and comm badges.

 

[kirkfan]

Hello
I got a question, when did it start when people started to call anyone that likes Star Trek a nerd, did it start with TOS or Next Gen?

I think what does it is wearing plastic Vulcan ears. If you do that you're just asking for trouble.

When I attended Dr. Zitts Star Trek lecture about Time Travel I was wondering where the people with plastic ears are. Boom, they were sitting right in front of me. And some wore uniforms and comm badges.

Told you.

I know of someone who's had a uniform tailor made to look exactly like Picard's, including all the underthings and all sorts of trimmings. It cost him a fortune! And the worst part is, he can barely afford it.

Well, to each his own...

 

[Kilana2]

I think what does it is wearing plastic Vulcan ears. If you do that you're just asking for trouble.

When I attended Dr. Zitts Star Trek lecture about Time Travel I was wondering where the people with plastic ears are. Boom, they were sitting right in front of me. And some wore uniforms and comm badges.

Told you.

I know of someone who's had a uniform tailor made to look exactly like Picard's, including all the underthings and all sorts of trimmings. It cost him a fortune! And the worst part is, he can barely afford it.

Well, to each his own...

He could have hired Garak for the job.

 

[Mr Pointy Ears]

If you're a trek fan there you are a nerd,and cool if u are a star wars fan,this is something I remember,but now with the new trek your no longer a nerd.

 

[kirkfan]

When I attended Dr. Zitts Star Trek lecture about Time Travel I was wondering where the people with plastic ears are. Boom, they were sitting right in front of me. And some wore uniforms and comm badges.

Told you.

I know of someone who's had a uniform tailor made to look exactly like Picard's, including all the underthings and all sorts of trimmings. It cost him a fortune! And the worst part is, he can barely afford it.

Well, to each his own...

He could have hired Garak for the job.

Indeed!

 

[drt]

Heh, when I was in high school in the early/mid 80s, being into stuff like D&D or science fiction novels was thought of being nerdy, Star Trek was considered a kid's show.

 

[Mudd]

A movie called Star Wars started the rehabilitation of the sf fan's image in popular culture...such as it is.

 

[Kobayshi Maru]

Heh, when I was in high school in the early/mid 80s, being into stuff like D&D or science fiction novels was thought of being nerdy, Star Trek was considered a kid's show.

I for one am not complaining. My liking of nerdy things is the reason I learned some martial arts in the first place. So if not for that I wouldn't be as physically fit as I am now.

 

[RandyS]

Heh, when I was in high school in the early/mid 80s, being into stuff like D&D or science fiction novels was thought of being nerdy, Star Trek was considered a kid's show.

I for one am not complaining. My liking of nerdy things is the reason I learned some martial arts in the first place. So if not for that I wouldn't be as physically fit as I am now.

You make it sound like you had to protect yourself from bullies.

I can relate. I was bullied for liking Star Trek (and most other sci-fi) as a kid too, but for me, the abuse was verbal. After a while I didn't even hear it anymore.

 

[Kilana2]

Heh, when I was in high school in the early/mid 80s, being into stuff like D&D or science fiction novels was thought of being nerdy, Star Trek was considered a kid's show.

I for one am not complaining. My liking of nerdy things is the reason I learned some martial arts in the first place. So if not for that I wouldn't be as physically fit as I am now.

You make it sound like you had to protect yourself from bullies.

I can relate. I was bullied for liking Star Trek (and most other sci-fi) as a kid too, but for me, the abuse was verbal. After a while I didn't even hear it anymore.

That´s sad. But look at the things people are fans of these days. Crappy TV Shows, Top-Model, Reality Shows, Pop Idol (the German version is especially crappy)...... So cheer up

 

[RandyS]

I for one am not complaining. My liking of nerdy things is the reason I learned some martial arts in the first place. So if not for that I wouldn't be as physically fit as I am now.

You make it sound like you had to protect yourself from bullies.

I can relate. I was bullied for liking Star Trek (and most other sci-fi) as a kid too, but for me, the abuse was verbal. After a while I didn't even hear it anymore.

That´s sad. But look at the things people are fans of these days. Crappy TV Shows, Top-Model, Reality Shows, Pop Idol (the German version is especially crappy)...... So cheer up

What's really sad was that most of the verbal abuse I took over it was from my dad and brother. Which was all the more ironic since my dad admitted to watching TOS first run in the 60's, and my brother rabidly followed TNG, sometimes watching it with me.

What offset those two though was Grandpa. He didn't much care for Star Trek either but it didn't matter to him one way or the other that I did. Once, he even said to me, "It takes a certain kind of intelligence to like that stuff". I don't know if he was trying to be approving or supportive, but I always took that as both.

 

[Kilana2]

It´s like you always have to justify for your hobby .

 

[Kobayshi Maru]

I for one am not complaining. My liking of nerdy things is the reason I learned some martial arts in the first place. So if not for that I wouldn't be as physically fit as I am now.

You make it sound like you had to protect yourself from bullies.

I can relate. I was bullied for liking Star Trek (and most other sci-fi) as a kid too, but for me, the abuse was verbal. After a while I didn't even hear it anymore.

That´s sad. But look at the things people are fans of these days. Crappy TV Shows, Top-Model, Reality Shows, Pop Idol (the German version is especially crappy)...... So cheer up

People invest time and money, not to mention a lot of effort, into the weirdest things nowadays.

 

[IrishNero]

I've got a huge collection of ST memorabilia, a full ST DVD/Blu-ray collection and a TNG Captain's uniform. Call it nerdy. So what. I'm also retired military (former Spec Ops), sport bike rider, mountain climber, rock drummer, astronomy buff and martial arts instructor. Oh, and I cook a mean lasagna. Categorizing and judging people because of the endeavors in which they choose to invest their time is a pointless exercise. You've got to be a really sad and insecure putz to live your life with the intent of making yourself feel better at the expense of others. Trekkers and Trekkies are some of the nicest people I've met in my travels and that's a lot more tangible in the real world than being 'cool.'