Not really. I was once called an idiot, and told to my face I was stupid because I liked Star Trek. And this only happened a few years ago.
Are we really that weird?
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Not really. I was once called an idiot, and told to my face I was stupid because I liked Star Trek. And this only happened a few years ago.
Yeah, I've gotten that kind of disrespect for being a Star Trek and science fiction fan. Excerpted from an old thread:
"To be more complete, I have to say none of these opinions bug me so long as the holder of said opinions is not obnoxious about it. I can remember an afternoon spent at Borders with a young woman I was somewhat interested in. Things were going great until she saw fit to castigate me for looking at The Star Trek Encyclopedia (to her, it was a case of arrested development--she said it was as if she were still a Partridge Family fan because the two shows are roughly equivalent in intellectual heft). Then she bitched me out for loving Philip K. Dick, one of the 20th century's premiere post-modernists as well as an idiosyncratically brilliant SF writer. That got under my skin. Lucky for my brain but not so much my penis, the relationship went nowhere. Funny thing is, she was a talented poet with good taste in mainstream literature."
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"To be more complete, I have to say none of these opinions bug me so long as the holder of said opinions is not obnoxious about it. I can remember an afternoon spent at Borders with a young woman I was somewhat interested in. Things were going great until she saw fit to castigate me for looking at The Star Trek Encyclopedia (to her, it was a case of arrested development--she said it was as if she were still a Partridge Family fan because the two shows are roughly equivalent in intellectual heft). Then she bitched me out for loving Philip K. Dick, one of the 20th century's premiere post-modernists as well as an idiosyncratically brilliant SF writer. That got under my skin. Lucky for my brain but not so much my penis, the relationship went nowhere. Funny thing is, she was a talented poet with good taste in mainstream literature."
Here's the rest of the thread.
Well said, Brutal. (And sorry about that girl.) To touch on what you said there, I think a lot of the "mainstream" views being a anything more than a casual Trek fan (and scifi/genre fan too) as a case of arrested development, when, in reality one might argue that many pursuits deemed acceptable by the "mainstream" could be argued to be just a specious analogy.
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I don't see a problem. Most of my friends are sci-fi fans and just about everyone I know has seen the new film and are as psyched about Star Trek as I was growing up.
Some people can be Star Trek fans and assimilate well into society. Some people can't. It's like that with a lot of people. There are those who get out of the basement and there are those who don't. Not all basement dwellers are Trek fans. Some are far more dangerous.
Some people can be Star Trek fans and assimilate well into society. Some people can't. It's like that with a lot of people. There are those who get out of the basement and there are those who don't. Not all basement dwellers are Trek fans. Some are far more dangerous.
You sure know how to make an exit from a closet, there, Hambone....
Most people don't do it using a thirty-piece marching band.
Actually, it was an eighty-piece symphonic band...but I like your way better!
No idea, but, like anything else, it's learned behavior. You have to be taught to hate.
Oh yeah. The person who called me an idiot was also a girl that I liked. Her snap judgement put quick end to that, kind of like the other one who called me a retarded crippled freak when I told her I liked her.
Women......
If someone is going to judge you unfavorably because you like Star Trek... then honestly Brutal you are much better off without this woman or these type of people in your life. Consider this woman doing you a favor...it really says a lot about her if she's "not interested" because you like Star Trek...I mean really!
I've gotten some ribbing through the years but no incident sticks out as being malicious in nature. As a matter of fact I won my 7th grade camp olympics with the Star Trek skit I wrote and directed...yeah we won the whole olympics with that thing...it put us over the top. Klingon's were a main part of my story and we used toilet paper as phasers to destroy them.
It helps to just hang around with like-minded people and let the "mundanes" go do their own thing without us.
Some examples:
My close friend and fellow sci fi fan took me aside at his father-in-law's funeral so he could show me his new Man From UNCLE communicator pen prop.
The Environmental Safety officer at work came into our office to test the air. He started waving around a test meter of some kind that made beeping noises. Knowing he was "one of us," I pulled out my TNG Tricorder toy and started beeping along next to him, which gave him a good laugh and brightened his day a little.
When my wife and I were long-distance driving once, I started to get a little highway-hypnotised and I started drifting into the next lane. My wife nudged me and said "Stay on TARget!"
At an all-night party at a friend's house, one of his other friends showed up with the punch. I asked him what was in it. He said, pretty much everything. I asked him what it was called. He said, "I call it a Kobyashi Maru. It's not a drink, it's a test of character."
Some examples:
My close friend and fellow sci fi fan took me aside at his father-in-law's funeral so he could show me his new Man From UNCLE communicator pen prop.
The Environmental Safety officer at work came into our office to test the air. He started waving around a test meter of some kind that made beeping noises. Knowing he was "one of us," I pulled out my TNG Tricorder toy and started beeping along next to him, which gave him a good laugh and brightened his day a little.
When my wife and I were long-distance driving once, I started to get a little highway-hypnotised and I started drifting into the next lane. My wife nudged me and said "Stay on TARget!"
At an all-night party at a friend's house, one of his other friends showed up with the punch. I asked him what was in it. He said, pretty much everything. I asked him what it was called. He said, "I call it a Kobyashi Maru. It's not a drink, it's a test of character."
Was it blue like Romulan Ale?At an all-night party at a friend's house, one of his other friends showed up with the punch. I asked him what was in it. He said, pretty much everything. I asked him what it was called. He said, "I call it a Kobyashi Maru. It's not a drink, it's a test of character."
Is there a recipe that could be shared with us?
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