Why is liking Trek a "nerdy" thing?

[The Old Mixer]

The other thing to keep in mind, though, is that SNL, from the first year with Belushi to that Shatner appearance, also did skits about the show itself. Also, popular comedians of the day, from Jay Leno to Kevin Pollack, did routines centered around Trek. Trek was mainstream enough back in the day that general audiences got the jokes. I think that back then it was more a matter of degrees...you could watch and enjoy the show without necessarily being one of "them" (pointing to the people they were making fun of in Shatner's "Get a Life" sketch).

 

[Captain Ryan]

Liking Trek doesnt make you a nerd, but many people who like Trek are very nerdy about it.

Exactly! I'm in it for the women

 

[Krieg1981]

There isn't a thing dorky about Star Trek.

 

[darkshadow0001]

It better not be because of the fact that women wore catsuits on the show... but you notice it was mainly alien women that wore the catsuits? I never saw Janeway in a catsuit!

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I never saw Janeway in a catsuit!

Dammit.

(can you imagine what an Intendant Janeway would have been like? )

 

[Jack Bauer]

I wouldn't date someone who mocked me for liking Trek. But I would date someone who didn't like it. THat's fine...mocking ain't!

 

[Nerdius Maximus]

Part of the problem might be that a lot of sci-fi fans tend to give off a snooty, pretentious vibe that some people might see as a turnoff. Ever read the letters to the editor in Analog? Ugh. And I'm not picking on people for having a good vocabulary, far from it. I'm speaking of people who lord their intelligence over others and have this condescending "I'm better than you because I understand quantum physics" attitude.

 

[cbp44189]

I guess most forms of extreme escapism is considered nerdy. People who spend a great deal of time reading become bookworms (nerdy), obsessing about a TV show (nerdy), chatrooms (nerdy). Even drugs, some may consider cool at first, but eventually they become losers too. As many posters have pointed out intellect and imagination may have alot to do with it. I believe it does. They (so called cool people) are intellectually limited, so they can't comprehend a different world or universe in depth, and they don't understand the joy of commanding a starship with three Klingon D-7's on your tail, while your port nacelle is spewing plasma all over the place.

 

[Deks]

I didn't have problems telling people I like Trek.
I really couldn't care less if it makes me nerdy or not, but to base a reason solely because a person likes a certain TV show and is more analytical than most (although not necessarily so) as grounds for not liking the person ... now that's idiotic.

Quite frankly I had my share of 'reasons' from the British embassy (ECO) on my student visa denial (which was denied the second time yesterday).
The reasons he stated were contradicting the papers/evidence from the school for the application and essentially speaking denied me the visa because apparently he needs ANY reason (regardless of how stupid/illogical/unreasonable they are) to keep me from going to UK legally to study.

If they let that kind of people to work in government positions, then you have a pretty good idea what kind of imbeciles we are dealing on a daily basis.

I do have an appeal left which goes directly to the office in London and I can easily kill ECO's 'reasons' with my own arguments and solidify them with hard evidence.
At least the ECO won't have a say in this since the guy is the only thing preventing me from getting the visa and he's situated in Croatian embassy in Zagreb.
And on both occasions when I was applying for the visa, the papers I provided had to be approved by UK offices so I can proceed to the interview (which they were on both occasions ... but the final decision was on the ECO).

I'm just trying to portray just how absurd some people can get and justify it simply because they are in a position that grants them the ability to do so.

 

[RandyS]

I didn't have problems telling people I like Trek.
I really couldn't care less if it makes me nerdy or not, but to base a reason solely because a person likes a certain TV show and is more analytical than most (although not necessarily so) as grounds for not liking the person ... now that's idiotic.

It's happened to me more than once. Several women I liked, and even my own dad (who watched the show himself, first-run in the '60's), and my brother (Who, incidentally, has confessed to liking TNG).

 

[Deks]

I didn't have problems telling people I like Trek.
I really couldn't care less if it makes me nerdy or not, but to base a reason solely because a person likes a certain TV show and is more analytical than most (although not necessarily so) as grounds for not liking the person ... now that's idiotic.

It's happened to me more than once. Several women I liked, and even my own dad (who watched the show himself, first-run in the '60's), and my brother (Who, incidentally, has confessed to liking TNG).

Well I'm a homosexual so it's possible I had no real issue with it because men are easier to get into bed?

Lol ... I'm joking of course (on getting men into bed easier).
But seriously, if someone would make a claim that I'm not their type merely because of my affinity for Star Trek, well quite frankly why would I want to be around such a person?
If they have an issue with it, then it's their problem and not mine.
I for example don't like watching sports on TV (soccer for example) and really dislike it if a person shouts during matches and acts in a neanderthal capacity ... but even if he is like that, it wouldn't be a reason for me to turn a man down if there is something about his personality I do like.
Thing like preference for TV shows and the likes aren't really that big of a thing to dump a person.

 

[Rush Limborg]

Hey, y'all! On the subject of "nerdiness"...

BEHOLD! A STRANGE (yet all too true) TALE OF AN ABSOLUTE TREKNECK!

(Trekneck: n. a stereotype Trekkie, "Get a Life" style!)


See, I hear tell of this one guy who went to a prom, see, and his date was... a great big cardboard cutout. I'm guessing it was either Deanna or Seven o' Nine. Anyway, this guy paid for two tickets... got two seats at his table... and TOOK THE CUTOUT TO THE DANCE FLOOR!

I kid you not! This guy must've just broken outta ARKHAM ASYLUM or something! Oy, vey....


See, it's people like THIS who give us such a bad reputation. Shatner was actually giving us a warning --make ABSOLUTELY certain that you DO have a life, lest you end up like that guy!

 

[Nerys Ghemor]

Wow.

That's like the trouble I still have with anime to this day, thanks to a guy I dated who went over the top with his liking for anime. He actually wanted to wear his cosplay suit to a school dance. The kid was just immature in general, but man...I'm so glad, even years later, that we broke up.

I have no problem with nerdiness...it's the lacking of anything else in one's life at all that bothers me.

 

[Computer]

It's MTV so lets attach the MTV Stigma - Mindless teenie boppers that are as shallow as a tea spoon of water in an empty olympic swimming pool.

 

[Captain Leslie]

Nerd-dom is about passion. Nothing wrong with that. I like passionate people. On the other hand...we have to draw a line, like when people get Illegally passionate about their pets...

 

[Warp14]

Gah. I'm a nerd for just being here discussing this.

 

[B.J.]

I liked that comment about mentioning that Stephen Hawking is a Trek fan. But watch the bubbleheads just disintegrate when you tell them that one of their oh-so-loved Sex in the City stars was once a Vulcan!

 

[HRHTheKING]

Why is liking Trek a "nerdy" thing?

Because many who like it are nerds.

I think the stereotype is essentially based on some truth.

 

[Jack Bauer]

Just check out almost every discussion over the minutia of canon and you'll see why. Non-nerds don't gab about tv shows that way. Sport because of it's "manly" attributes is immune from nerddom because discussing the minutia of that is considered macho.

 

[T'Leisha]

I never saw myself as a nerd. Not once.
Until somebody noted the fact that i am a trekkie who reads and wears glasses. Oh, and also the fact that, generally i had very little of what you might call a social life.
I had never once noticed that this was different or "abnormal" or whatever. When i finally did realise, my life changed. Not for the better unfortunately.
I was just a kid at the time, and when other kids tell you you're... different, for whatever reason, well it sucks.
Eventually you perceive yourself differently- and in a sense- become the stereotype.
So i guess i am pretty geeky.
Although not half as geeky tabletop gamers.
I at least have that thought to comfort me.