Ah, someone who speaks for Star Trek fandom today, and ignoring the link, and probably lots of links from lots of fans. Don't bother with the historic evidence of that phenomena.
It's total bs, no one gives a shit about trekker vs trekkie. It's exactly the sort of thing non-fan articles like to blow up, it's Onion material that is used by non-fans to mock fandom.
"In the 1991 TV show Star Trek: 25th Anniversary Special, Leonard Nimoy attempted to settle the issue by stating that the term "Trekker" is the preferred term. During an appearance on Saturday Night Live to promote the 2009 Star Trek film, Nimoy – seeking to assure Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto, the "new" Kirk and Spock, that most fans would embrace them – initially referred to "Trekkies" before correcting himself and saying "Trekkers," emphasizing the second syllable, with a "deadpan" delivery throughout that left ambiguous whether this ostensible misstep and correction were indeed accidental or instead intentional and for comic effect.[49] In the documentary Trekkies, Kate Mulgrew stated that Trekkers are the ones "walking with us" while the Trekkies are the ones content to simply sit and watch Star Trek. According to Stewart, the actors dislike being called Trekkies and are careful to distinguish between themselves and the Trekkie audience.[50]" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_fandom#Trekkie_vs._Trekker How about them apples? Especially take note of what Kate Mulgrew said.
Well that settles it then, the actors when asked this boring ass question in an interview came up with something that complimented fans so this must be how the fans feel. Dude you are simply wrong here. In fandom no one gives a shit and the supposed debate is a product of the media, if it ever had traction it was minimal and is long dead. Go to tumblr and look at how young fans of Star Trek identify themselves, they call themselves trekkies for the most part and they are if anything more rabid than the older generation. NO ONE CARES.
Then perhaps you're not as militant a Janeway fan as you identify. And of all people, teacake, now you're saying that what the young fans of the series believe reflects the corpus of Star Trek fans. What?
I'm saying that if the nomenclature was ever an issue it was a small one and it is long dead. And yes young fans reflect the direction Star Trek is going because guess what they will still be here when I am dead and because of them Star Trek will still be here. As to Janeway, she told me for reals that she doesn't care what I call myself. This was pillow talk though, so don't quote her.
https://www.roddenberry.com/index.php/communityblogs/index/detail/id/168 http://www.science-fiction-corner.com/trekker-vs-trekkie.htm http://startrekspace.blogspot.com/2008/05/trekkie-or-trekker.html All non-Onion type references from serious science fiction fans inclusive of Star Trek versus a spurious pillow talk anecdote. Whoyagonna believe? The actors? The sources? The history? Or a few fans participating on one topic on one forum? A brief check on this subject result in overwhelming evidence to the contrary of your personal belief.
Are you SERIOUSLY denigrating my pillow talk with Janeway?! Because that is totally uncool. As I said if it was ever and issue it is now totally dead. If you want to appeal to the past help yourself, but time doesn't stand still.
The links are recent ones, hardly old. It would have been simple to post 10-20 more. I think what happened was similar to what some homosexuals did with pejoratives. They made magazines or organizations that intentionally used the term. Likewise, though my generation fought hard to eliminate pejoratives about African-Americans, others like Richard Pryor desensitized those kinds of words by repeatingly using them. So much that every gangsta rap song features that word. That's why I prefaced my statement with this is absurd to some. However, I'm getting the impression that I've stumbled upon a Trekkie bastion.
Honestly, I think enjoying reading James Joyce makes one more [whatever you want to call it--unusual? Obscure? Niche? Hopeless?] than any Trekkie. The only reason there isn't a massive stigma against Joyce like there is for Star Trek is because most hobbytypicals haven't had to read Finnegan's Wake. There certainly are less Joyce fans out there to annoy them.
I'll assume this is facetious, since you've been here for long enough to know that many of us have successfully procreated. I personally haven't had any problem "getting laid and stuff" in the last 22 years.
I like the episodes and movies I like, I don't like the ones I don't. From all of the series and movies. TNG being my favorite.
I think that if you take the distinction between "Trekkie" and "Trekker' seriously you're already the sort of fan you're insisting you're not. Honestly, try explaining to anyone--in all seriousness--that, "No, I'm not a Trekkie, I'm a Trekker, because you see . . . ." Eyes will roll.