Yep.
Are we really that weird?
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Nardpuncher
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I think it's weird when peopl get angry about the show ( or new movie) in any way.
One can be ethusiastic and discuss how mamy Galaxy ships were produced and what life on Vulcan would be like, but when people get too angry to see the new movie, that's the sign you've gone too far.
One can be ethusiastic and discuss how mamy Galaxy ships were produced and what life on Vulcan would be like, but when people get too angry to see the new movie, that's the sign you've gone too far.
He sprinkles quatrotriticale across the shelves then sets loose a tribble.
Well you'd be wrong.
At my first convention, I wore civvies most of the time, but had a costume ready for the costume parade and wore a Starfleet security uniform when it was my turn to do an hour of voluntary "security duty", which included meeting fans arriving on a train and later carrying the GoH's bags to his car. Nothing weird at all. Just fun.
After a few convention costume parades over the years, I had enough costumes on hand to wear something different every few hours, so I did a debating panel in one costume, a stint as MC in something else, went to lunch in something else, and had a new costume ready for the costume parade. Nothing weird at all. Just fun. And even more fun that others started to wear more floor costumes as well. Nothing weird at all. Just fun.
Loud stereotypical "Trekkies" quoting lines at each other can be in jeans and T-shirts just as often as full Klingon regalia. Loud stereotypical football fans quoting player stats lines at each other can be in jeans and T-shirts just as often as full team colours regalia.
If wearing a costume at a ST event is not your bag, then fine. You've missed out on some fun. Your "long"-held belief is not correct, in my experience.
Nope, you're right. SOME day!
^Holy crap, that dinky thing is the Artemis?
Yup, it's 1/1400 scale, with parts from the Starcraft resin refit. The delta-shaped hull is made from the wings of the cartoon Fantastic Voyage ship, which is only 6.5" long, after all. Note that it's in scale with the Grand Alliance and the other ships on that shelf!
Not often enough! *cough* and one at a time, using a big watercolor brush and an old shaving brush.
Of course we're weird - we embrace our weirdness and built an entire subculture on it. Only one difference between us and soccer/wrestling hooligans is that we are far more interested in creating things and celebrating the good in humanity. And about 100 IQ points . . .
Very, very, very carefully?
Oh my god, i love you people.... Everyone's weird in their own way and every group of fans has its eccentrics. The weird people are the ones to be respected. And the great thing about the stereotypical weird trekkies are generally they are geniuses and can create deep conversations about little fictionalities that help to broaden their IQs further. That's one thing i respect in anyone especially since i have trouble putting my own thoughts into words.
Well, I would launch into a diatribe, but perigee has warned us off from that.
I can remember being ridiculed on a job when it was discovered that I had watched TOS as a child...yet this came from a guy who knew every line to every M*A*S*H episode...which was far more than 79 episodes.
A few years back, my two closest friends and I took a trip to Las Vegas for a 10 days. One afternoon, we went to the Hilton. They are not Trekkies, but they told me to enjoy myself in Star Trek Experience while they gambled on the casino floor. I lost track of time...reading, taking pics, and shopping in the gift shop. Honestly, the strangest birds in the galaxy that day were out on the casino floor with my two buddies. Inside the Experience that day, other Trekkies and myself had a grand time....just being NORMAL!!!
Forbin, do you mind if I photoshop myself in place of yourself? I mean...then at least my pic would be in starship heaven.
Quite a few sci-fi fans in general I've met are weird, and based on the behavior, I get the impression at lot of them suffer from OCD, social affective disorder, and autism. That's no joke and one of the things that separates them as a group from sports or other "mainstream" fans. Now, that said, quite a few Trekkies I've met have been fine, and since we live in a country where being interested in any even remotely intellectual is likely to get you branded a dweeb, even if they are "normal," they're likely to take crap for admitting they like Star Trek. At least until now. The current film seems to be making it "hip" to enjoy at least the movie. We'll see how long this lasts.
Well, to be fair, people who tend towards shyness - and autism/Asbergers - are lively to gravitate towards more insular pursuits, such as TV, movies, SF and reading in general, rather than sport and other team interests.
I think you're right.
I'm not casting aspersions -- the best people I've met are the ones with some sort of challenge and who develop genuine empathy as a result. But I think, to a large degree, this is where the stereotype comes from. It's also true that at least here in the U.S., just being on a sports team carries a great deal of authority. You can be fat, clumsy, near-sighted, or dumb as a post, and it's fine. Of course, I'm in the midwest, where quite a few people fit this profile regardless. It's amazing to me how simple-minded we are putting people into boxes, and how if the box has the right label, we don't really pay much attention as to whether what's in it is really worth anything.
We humans like to put things in box and stick labels on them because that's how we think the universe works. There is no IDIC, just x amount of boxes containing x amount of variations, none of which can mingle with one another. There are a lot of people who are entirely unaware that the universe does not look like the warehouse from the end of Raiders of The Lost Ark.
Well. It's a lot bigger.
To Herkimer: I think that's true, too, though I do think that some people are much better at looking past the labels. They're relatively few in number, but they're out there. One of the things that drew me to Star Trek was the attempt to look past such things, and while the show and even some fans sometimes only pay lip service to the notion, it's still better than most of the alternatives.
Good question. Your average person thinks more of football than Trek. I remember when one guest at a convention said it was like having the Mardi Gras, and so many people were about to meet family members they don't know of.
If having fun and enjoying something as much as we like Trek, let them go on without us. But yeah, they won't be having as much fun as we do.
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