Says the irrational nutcase.
And you have to admit, there ain't many of me.
Even if Trek fandom isn't riddled with total nutjobs (and I don't grant that premise,)
Oh, don't get me wrong,
any fandom has its share of total nutjobs and then some. But I'm a hard sell for the proposition that Trekkies are unusually bad on this score. I've seen some of the alternatives up close.
it's reputation is of an obsessive group of autism-spectrum ubernerds who can never be pleased.
Believe it or not, that reputation is hardly the big deal to the wider world that Trek fans imagine it to be. Before coming here, I could go through a year and hear that stereotype zero times in the course of twelve months whether Trek came up as a topic of conversation or not.
Here, I see people stewing in it daily, constantly convinced that this is how the world sees them.
It's absurd, and it's totally unnecessary. Even
if some people out there have that stereotype in their heads, Trekkies themselves needn't be so obsessed about reinforcing it and buying into it.
Tom Servo said:
From what I've witnessed as a reaction to these films, I still stand by my statement. These current batch of creative minds have been ridiculed to death
Again, sheer drama queenery. Experiencing some mild-to-spicy criticism from a tiny portion of your fanbase isn't being "ridiculed to death," it's
show business. People in show business don't instantly crumple in the face of a few bad reviews if that's where they belong. Being unfairly ridiculed is
what happened to Ghyslain Raza. Nothing of the kind has remotely happened to Orci or Abrams, period.
