Because Trek is considered to be more cerebral than SW, HP or LOTR.
Trek spurred imagination of numerous scientists who went off to recreate numerous techs imagined originally for the 23rd and 24th century in our own century.
Anyway ... I was teased about it in grade school and throughout high school.
I remember when I went for a 4 day trip to Prague with the rest of my class in high school, I took one of Voyager or TNG books with me and read them during our bus drive.
I was always buying the English versions of the pocket books because I barely stand books in my native (Croatian) language and of course I figured Trek would be far better read in original English than some translation.
I remember that while I was reading that one of the guys noticed it was a Trek book and that that it was in a foreign (to him) language.
They ridiculed me for it later on, but my professor was smiling and was impressed to a degree (as were some of the guys at fist).
Then again, 95% of people in my class spoke/understood English on a level of a 6 year old, so primarily I came off as nerdy to them (which was solidified by the fact I was doing better than most in technical theoretical knowledge even though I am more artistic by nature).
Who cares anyway.
I'm gonna leave this pitiful country in 5 months for UK, and after that head to US.
Trek spurred imagination of numerous scientists who went off to recreate numerous techs imagined originally for the 23rd and 24th century in our own century.
Anyway ... I was teased about it in grade school and throughout high school.
I remember when I went for a 4 day trip to Prague with the rest of my class in high school, I took one of Voyager or TNG books with me and read them during our bus drive.
I was always buying the English versions of the pocket books because I barely stand books in my native (Croatian) language and of course I figured Trek would be far better read in original English than some translation.
I remember that while I was reading that one of the guys noticed it was a Trek book and that that it was in a foreign (to him) language.
They ridiculed me for it later on, but my professor was smiling and was impressed to a degree (as were some of the guys at fist).
Then again, 95% of people in my class spoke/understood English on a level of a 6 year old, so primarily I came off as nerdy to them (which was solidified by the fact I was doing better than most in technical theoretical knowledge even though I am more artistic by nature).
Who cares anyway.
I'm gonna leave this pitiful country in 5 months for UK, and after that head to US.
