On the other hand, pretty much everyone I knew loved and quoted "Hardware Wars" back in the day.
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Why are Star Trek fans made fun of more than Star Wars fans in popular culture?
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On the other hand, pretty much everyone I knew loved and quoted "Hardware Wars" back in the day.
Star Trek? But we have Mass Effect at home!
I like both, though I do give some difference to Star Trek. It also felt more fleshed out.
Okay, this is funny. I'm in an amateur theater group and we are preparing a play. The director just said to me "You know, your character is a bit of a nerd..." she thought about it for a while and she said to me "Do you happen to have a t-shirt with, whataretheirnames, Kirk and Spock on it?"
Me: "Maybe..?"
(People, let me know if you want to see my "stage costume"!
)
Me: "Maybe..?"
(People, let me know if you want to see my "stage costume"!
)
Former theater member here: yes, of course!(People, let me know if you want to see my "stage costume"!
(People, let me know if you want to see my "stage costume"!
Bring it on!!!
Hey, it can't be any more awkward than my sci-fi-themed road show costume from a play I did where I turned a Nintendo control helmet from the early '90s into a spaceship crewman's helmet. 
Star Trek fans drew Apollo and other spacecraft. Did well in school
Star Wars appealed to guys who drew cars in vocational school.
Star Wars fans were rebels too—loved ANIMAL HOUSE.
Trekkies were “Omegans” in the popular imagination. Dudley Do-rights in comparison.
It left a mark.
Star Wars appealed to guys who drew cars in vocational school.
Star Wars fans were rebels too—loved ANIMAL HOUSE.
Trekkies were “Omegans” in the popular imagination. Dudley Do-rights in comparison.
It left a mark.
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Back when my workplace was a WinDoze shop, I created custom mouse pointers for colleagues. One asked for a spaceship, and got an Apollo CSM with flickering RCS thrusters. Another asked for an airplane, and got a top view of a WWI biplane fighter. With a spinning propeller.
My mouse pointer? A small rodent. Which I named "Willard." And I put MouseCape on my work Macs, so I can keep him.
My mouse pointer? A small rodent. Which I named "Willard." And I put MouseCape on my work Macs, so I can keep him.
Another hypothesis that I would like to add to those already presented is that probably, at least as long as we are talking about the Original Trilogy, there isn't much to make fun of. I'll try to explain myself better. SW, at its core, is basically an adventure story overlaid with a bit of science fiction. The film features tropes so classic and tried-and-true that it's hard to laugh at them. I mean, it can be done, but you would be targeting common tropes, not something specific to Star Wars.
Instead, Star Trek, even before the new series, had many elements specific to it that had entered the common imagination, such as "the guy with pointy ears" or the "captain who sleeps with a sexy alien every second episode" and who were the easy targets whenever you wanted to make fun of the franchise.
To better explain the concept, this is a recent skit from SNL about Star Wars.
Here they poke fun at a very specific aspect of the franchise: the fact that an alien routinely speaks in some bizarre language and our heroes respond in a language the listener understands. It's actually something extremely SW specific, but it just goes to show that it's really finding something to make fun of. The other alternative is to make a direct parody of "Space Balls", but that's another story.
Instead, Star Trek, even before the new series, had many elements specific to it that had entered the common imagination, such as "the guy with pointy ears" or the "captain who sleeps with a sexy alien every second episode" and who were the easy targets whenever you wanted to make fun of the franchise.
To better explain the concept, this is a recent skit from SNL about Star Wars.
Here they poke fun at a very specific aspect of the franchise: the fact that an alien routinely speaks in some bizarre language and our heroes respond in a language the listener understands. It's actually something extremely SW specific, but it just goes to show that it's really finding something to make fun of. The other alternative is to make a direct parody of "Space Balls", but that's another story.
The way I see it, Star Trek was one of the first IPs to develop a rabid fanbase. It was a decade before Stars Wars and I don’t think “fandom” was a big thing back then. These days you have countless different fandoms, from Harry Potter to MCU and everything in between.
Maybe Trek fans were just an easy target for ridicule because fandom wasn’t nearly as big a part of society.
Maybe Trek fans were just an easy target for ridicule because fandom wasn’t nearly as big a part of society.
Sometimes we are easy target. Anyone remembers this story..?
There were times we made ourselves easy targets.
Among Disney fans, there is a concept of not-quite-cosplay, that involves wearing adult "tribute" clothes that suggest one's favorite Disney character, while being different enough from actual costumes that one would not be turned away from a Disney theme park for impersonating a Cast Member. I vaguely recall the term is something like "Disneydashing," but (somebody help me out) that pretty much comes up empty of relevant hits in a Google search.
I would say that something analogous to that has existed with respect to Star Trek for a very long time. In particular, one of my elementary school teachers had a trio of dresses that -- although neither low-cut, nor miniskirted, nor velour -- somehow vaguely suggested TOS uniforms, by the colors and the overall lines.
I would say that something analogous to that has existed with respect to Star Trek for a very long time. In particular, one of my elementary school teachers had a trio of dresses that -- although neither low-cut, nor miniskirted, nor velour -- somehow vaguely suggested TOS uniforms, by the colors and the overall lines.
The Jury Lady went to do her duty in full Star Trek Regalia, included Tricorder and Phaser.
(but the black glasses seemed out of place to me...)
The fun thing is that she was ultimately dismissed from the jury pool for talking to the press. The defense lawyers and the prosecutor had no problem with her clothing.
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Okay, I gotta challenge this. The world is full of bright, lifelong SF fans, who did well in school and who still loved STAR WARS back in the day. I went to high school with them, I went to college with them, I was one of them.
Let's not get too elitist here.
I drew spaceships and cars, during Auto Mechanics, during my final two years of high school. I am avowed Trek fan for life.
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