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Why has it become cool to hate Star Trek fans?
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That response is too funny, NCC-1701
Let's see, Trek fans are geeky, socially maladjusted, and obsessed with the product. Hmm. That's the premise. As opposed to someone who spends far more than he should as a percentage of his income to buy season tickets in the nose-bleed section so he can watch his favorite NFL team in 30 degree weather while shirtless with his body painted in his team colors, drink himself silly, yell at the referees, ogle the cheerleaders, and throw up in the parking lot after the game before passing out in his car until he's sobered up enough to drive home?
He spends the week tweaking his fantasy roster and calling sports-talk shows to rant while he should be working. Then he goes to the stadium next Sunday to do it all over again.
But he's not a geek. He's just a big sports fan.
CaptainHarlock, Google "ecological fallacy" and "stereotype."
see? I find both of these (stereo)types pathetic to the extreme.
/has to get to the gym in 26 minutes.
Any time "fans" of any sort are involved in something they are passionate about there are bound to be those who do not agree with each other's POV to the extreme. You'll find this in discussions about anything from politics to sports to video games. You're just seeing the "Trek fan" version of this extremism.
It is not "cool" to hate Trek fans, but there is a social stigma attached to Trek in many parts. Lots of people see Trek as this outdated "nerdy" thing and picture nothing but people dressed in Starfleet uniforms with no lives. This is a very unfair assessment, but it is one I have encountered many times in my life any time I mention enjoying Trek to non-fans. Sadly, a lot of the flame baiting I've seen online and the real life behavior of certain extreme fans (that do not represent the majority) do not help to disuade such notions.
It is not "cool" to hate Trek fans, but there is a social stigma attached to Trek in many parts. Lots of people see Trek as this outdated "nerdy" thing and picture nothing but people dressed in Starfleet uniforms with no lives. This is a very unfair assessment, but it is one I have encountered many times in my life any time I mention enjoying Trek to non-fans. Sadly, a lot of the flame baiting I've seen online and the real life behavior of certain extreme fans (that do not represent the majority) do not help to disuade such notions.
Can I be a "fake" fan?
Can I be a "fake" fan?
Why yes, surely you can be. Please have a seat over here and the ladies will take care of you momentarily.
blaXXer, faker than fake.
I'm a Star Trek fan that would like this new movie to stay closer to established 'canon' and feel more like the original series than seems likely.
I've never been to a Star Trek convention, never been dressed up like a Vulcan, Andorian, Klingon, or Starfleet officer (or any other Trek character for that matter), and don't sit around talking trek technology with my friends. I don't live in a basement and I've been married for a number of years.
I don't see any valid reason for the people who like the direction this film seems to be heading to stereotype or ridicule those people who don't.
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Which doesn't make sense anyway. How do you park a station in orbit directly above San Francisco?
Star Trek The Motion Picture The Director's Cut. It's in the text commentary on the DVD.
Especially the media. Just got finished looking at 25 pics of the career of Winona Ryder on comcast.net entertainment. Pic no. 25 was the shot of her and Ben Cross as the parents of "Dr. Spock".
You can't. Geostationary Orbit would be the only way but it only works at around 22,000 miles over the equator.
If she gets competely nude I'd wank in earnest.
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