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Infamous Star Trek fans....

Dukhat said:
teacake said:
Dukhat said:
And one wonders why Star Trek fans have such a horrible reputation as complete dorks...:rolleyes:
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Nothing wrong with that. Weeds out the shallow people.
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It has nothing to do with being shallow.
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I agree. I am a nerd and there's nothing wrong with that, on the contrary. But I don't want to look stupid in front of multitudes of people, which you do by persistently displaying eccentric fanaticism.

It's like football hooligans making every other fan look bad. I love football (soccer), but I don't want to be looked at as some weird fanatic moron.

I know who I am and what I love. I don't have to parade it and make a spectacle of my preferences.

I don't think this has anything to do with being shallow.
 
Jonas Grumby said:
That "jury duty lady" really wore that uniform all the time? And demanded to be called "Commander"? Damn, that's...odd.
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I think it was said that she wore it to work and everyday of the jury thing and and pretty much like decided to live her life by the standards of Star Trek. So, yeah, she kind of went off the deep end... perhaps.

Maybe demand is too extreme of a word ... Maybe she "preferred" to be called Commander... of her fake star ship.

On the topic of shallowness: There's a thing called loving something and being obsessed with something. I don't need to go to work in my "Starfleet" uniform in order to display that i like Star Trek. I can live a productive life in the real world and watch Star Trek on the side. When you start transforming your house into a spaceship, wearing the uniforms everyday, shopping in them, going to school in them -- etc etc... When you basically blur the line between fact and fiction then there's a problem.
 
Exactly. It's one thing to wear a uniform AT A CONVENTION or AT A COSTUME PARTY. That is the appropriate time and place for pretend, and I don't care who makes fun of it; it's a perfectly legitimate thing to do on your off time. But doing that in public or at work, outside of a party or a convention--NO.

(The only other exception being if you are a member of the 501st and are doing charity work that requires you to be in costume. That's OK. But not having a good, normal reason--no.)
 
Lonemagpie said:
Seeing as politicians tend to be viewed as infamous by supporters of the opposing party, Ronald Reagan, Al Gore and Barack Obama would all count...
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Reagan was a Star Trek fan? Really? Are you sure you haven't got Star Trek confused with Star Wars, as in Defense Initiative?

In the bizarre reality of Stephen Ratliff's epic "Time Speeder" it was established that Bill Clinton was a huge Star Trek fan. I don't know if that is duplicated in our reality, however. Remember, Ratliff's world was one in which the cast of Voyager also doubled as the members of UPN's news team.
 
ToddPence said:
Lonemagpie said:
Seeing as politicians tend to be viewed as infamous by supporters of the opposing party, Ronald Reagan, Al Gore and Barack Obama would all count...
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Reagan was a Star Trek fan? Really? Are you sure you haven't got Star Trek confused with Star Wars, as in Defense Initiative?
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lol

I'm sure he toured the sets, maybe after he left office. Made a crack about Klingons being like Congress.
 
Nerys Ghemor said:
Exactly. It's one thing to wear a uniform AT A CONVENTION or AT A COSTUME PARTY. That is the appropriate time and place for pretend, and I don't care who makes fun of it; it's a perfectly legitimate thing to do on your off time. But doing that in public or at work, outside of a party or a convention--NO.
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eh, the older I get the less I care about "appropriate". More power to those that enjoy wearing dressups whenever they feel like it. Who cares? It's only clothes. You've got work dress code, public dress code about nudity, if you don't cross either of those who cares? Who makes up these rules?
 
So he's responsible for SkyNet and the Matrix?! I knew somebody presently in politics would have had a hand in it...
 
teacake said:
Who cares? It's only clothes. You've got work dress code, public dress code about nudity, if you don't cross either of those who cares? Who makes up these rules?
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So would you go to court dressed in a Star Trek costume?
 
Would you like to meet the ruler of another country in a Star Trek uniform?

(Answer for King Abdullah: YES!)
 
Rom's Sehlat said:
Would you like to meet the ruler of another country in a Star Trek uniform?

(Answer for King Abdullah: YES!)
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He was wearing a Star Trek uniform because he was an extra on the show. I seriously doubt he'd be strutting around in it in his royal palace in Jordan for all his constituents to see.
 
Fife Symington, former governor of AZ, he was convicted of something illegal, and had to resign as governor. He is a huge Star Trek fan. He wanted to end one of his State of the State addresses with Live Long and Prosper, but his aides talked him out of it.

Also, I believe that the Whitewater juror was dismissed as a jury member (if she even made it that far) and then spoke to reporters, probably after they got wind of the story. Nothing improper about that on her part.
 
Dukhat said:
teacake said:
Who cares? It's only clothes. You've got work dress code, public dress code about nudity, if you don't cross either of those who cares? Who makes up these rules?
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So would you go to court dressed in a Star Trek costume?
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No because I would consider that "at work" and assume it wasn't in the work dress code. I was responding to Nerys who said:

That is the appropriate time and place for pretend, and I don't care who makes fun of it; it's a perfectly legitimate thing to do on your off time. But doing that in public or at work, outside of a party or a convention--NO.
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I agreed with her about work as there is a dress code there.

If someone wants to walk around in public in their Trek uniform that's their business. "Appropriate" has nothing to do with it.
 
Mr. Laser Beam said:
OmahaStar said:
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How about the weird chick from the OJ trial, the juror who wore her Starfleet uniform all the time (even at work) and was called 'Commander'?
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She enjoys Trek and tries to live up to the ideals Roddenberry set out. She volunteers, she's an active part of the community, and she happens to have a uniform. So what?
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She wears the uniform ALL.THE.TIME. Even at WORK. She even insists that her employees call her Commander. That sound normal to you?
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That's kindda annoying, though. She's just doing to get attention, and it's obnoxious in a more benign and subtle kind of way. It's nothing that serious IMO. If she wants to get fire, that's her choice.... [chuckle] :)

Maybe she should start dating...if she hasn't already.... [laugh]
 
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One of my favorite guys: Jimmy Buffett. He's mentioned Star Trek in a number of his songs.
 
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