Well I found this site on accident trying to look up some trivia to explain something I could not resolves about the new movies. I am not new to trek...at all.
Its been years since I have use a BBS so bear with me...also I am very dyslexic so any errors in spelling an acronyms is a complete mistake. One of my friends though I was cursing in a message....and I have accidentally turned off my spellchecker (using keystrokes) so many times.....and now I am afraid I have taught it that certain words like the is spelled teh because of how often I misspell it typing among other things.
I am barely a second generation trekker/trekkie and to prove my ST cred as it were....how many people can say their parents biggest fight while married was that when I was 3 years old during the first rerun broadcast of TOS I talked and asked my parents questions and it was not a commercial gasp! When I was 16 years the last straw precipitating my parents divorce was an argument about some trek memorabilia my dad was supposed to get for me for my birthday when voyage home was being filmed in my local area (he forgot and my mom was not amused). Match that ROFL!!!!
I used to religiously read all the books, and still have through the first 90 or so, and some are really wierd.
i think I still own every book about the romulans, and always play at least a half rihannisu when I have been able to get a group together to tabletop a game, but no local fans are roleplaying gamers and driving 180milles to find players/a game is a bit much. But my favorite character has always been McCoy, then Scotty ( think its my inner irish/highland scottish ancestry coming out), and both my parents are southern farm kids so teh accent was close enough to be understandable with my audio processing issues related to my dyslexia.
I have at least liked all forms of trek (not enterprise so much). During the covid/corona shutdown I have found I like the darkness of the Kelvin timeline more and more and am getting really sad that there will most likely not be another movie.I don't like J.J. Abrams directorial style, but do like his production style and the new direction and grittier feel of the kelvin timeline more like modern trek, though I do think treating kirk/spock as a duality instead fo the triumvirate, under-utilizing Karl Urban's McCoy was a critical mistake, because I feel like he is the one who held kirk and spock together, and the books is smarter than either but neither kirk or spock seem to know this or how he manipulates both of them for their own good and mental health as well as being the only one to regularity beat both at chess. I might be a bit biased.
I desperately need some other trekkies/trekkers to talk to. What do fans call themselves now?
