I think I know where Daisy is...

[Lord Jim]

You lot seem to know waaaaay more about Trek than me

Yeah, but I'll bet we couldn't hold a candle to you on Dr. Who, so your geek credentials remain safely intact...

[Big RR]

I just saw this thread--wasn't there also a captain Decker in the first ST movie; the guy wh commanded the Enterprise before the Admiral Kirk siezed control (much as the commodores of yore did, but without the incompetence they displayed)? I guess we could also say Khan captained the enterprise a couple of times as well, although he never held a commission to captain it.

[Daisy]

You lot seem to know waaaaay more about Trek than me

Yeah, but I'll bet we couldn't hold a candle to you on Dr. Who, so your geek credentials remain safely intact...

This is true

[Sean]

Yes Dais but up until now you were the only self-confessed Trekkie on here...

[Lord Jim]

Well, I'm a big fan of the shows, but in my defense, I have never been to a convention or gotten decked out in costume...(I did go to costume party as a "Visitor" once, but that wasn't Star Trek....)

However I did go to a really nice Star Trek exhibition in Vegas, where they had a lot of the costumes and models and props from the shows, and one of those virtual ride deals....(I went with some Cafe Darte types as a matter of fact; it was during the weekend of a Las Vegas FtF)

But since I didn't go to Vegas just for the exhibition, I believe that should count as a point in my favor...

[Big RR]

I'm only a fan of the original series, although I gave all of the other ones a chance, the only one I could watch was Voyager (and even that not regularly). However, a couple of years ago there was a ST convention near my house and I went for one day to see how it was. In a word it was pretty scary, between all the people dressed up as characters, carrying on conversations in klingon (at least that's what I guessed it was), and interviewing actors at panel discussions as if they were really the characters. It was interesting, but I'd never go again.

[Crackpot]

I Thought RB was a trekkie as well.

[Guinevere]

I thought the real afficionados referred to themselves as "Trekkers."

See Wiki:

Trekkie is "frequently depreciative"[40] and is thus "not an acceptable term to serious fans",[41] who prefer Trekker. The distinction existed as early as May 1970, when the editor of fanzine Deck 6 wrote:


...when I start acting like a bubble-headed trekkie (rather than a sober, dignified—albeit enthusiastic—trekker).[2]:4[42]

By 1976, media reports on Star Trek conventions acknowledged the two types of fans:[43]


One Trekkie came by and felt compelled to explain, while paying for his Mr. Spock computer image, that he was actually a Trekker (a rational fan). Whereas, he said, a Trekkie worships anything connected with Star Trek and would sell his or her mother for a pair of Spock ears.[25]

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.[44] 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 Patrick Stewart, the actors dislike being called Trekkies and are careful to distinguish between themselves and the Trekkie audience.[45] He objected, however, when an interviewer described Trekkies as "weird", calling it a "silly thing to say". Stewart added, "How many do you know personally? You couldn't be more wrong."[46]

The issue is also shown in the film Trekkies 2, in which a Star Trek fan recounts a supposed incident during a Star Trek convention where Gene Roddenberry used the term "trekkies" to describe fans of the show, only to be corrected by a fan that stood up and yelled "Trekkers!" Gene Roddenberry allegedly responded with "No, it's 'Trekkies.' I should know — I invented the thing."

Other fans have recounted a tale that the term trekkies was the original term that was adopted with the first Star Trek convention in 1972. However, by the second convention so many people had "jumped on the bandwagon" that the fans present at the second convention adopted the term "Trekkers" in order to distinguish themselves as the true fans, versus the fad fans who continued to use the term trekkies.

[oldr_n_wsr]

I have always enjoyed the series, each one of them in their own way. All except the last one with Bakula. not because of him, just didn;t get into it. I remember being young and the original was on at 6pm (I am guessing it was reruns) and we always ate at 6pm (dad got home at 5:50pm and dinner was ready at 6pm, German family thing ). To this day when I turn on one of the original series episode I have no clue what episode it is by the first 10 minutes as I missed all the episodes first ten minutes. (yes I ate fast).

[Gob]

I thought the real afficionados referred to themselves as "Trekkers."

I call 'em "Starkies".

[The Hen]

... and I call them "Starkers".





.... but only when they are nekkid.

[Lord Jim]

Gee Strop, I'm surprised you're not a fan of Captain Kirk's seeing as how he's a fellow rock climber. Here he is climbing up the side of El Capitan :



Of course he's not doing it with a baby on his back, but still.....

[Gob]

Oh god, I actually saw that one! Doesn't Spock levitate up next to him, or something equally daft?

[Lord Jim]

Doesn't Spock levitate up next to him

Levitate?

Oh please, Spock is a man of science, not some Indian Shaman....

He was wearing anti-grav boots....

[Gob]

Oh something sensible then, not made up stuff at all!

[oldr_n_wsr]

Levitation is not "made up". Magicians levitate their assistants all the time.
Besides, I saw it on the internet.

[Jarlaxle]

Yes Dais but up until now you were the only self-confessed Trekkie on here...

Forget about me, did ya?

[Lord Jim]

Back at the CSB, I used to have an image from the Star Trek Enterprise series as my avatar...


Jarl, you'll have to forgive Strop....

His memory ain't what it used to be....

A lifetime of cricket watching will do that to a fella....

[Gob]

I get so bad sometimes I confuse myself with Sean...

...ah, wait, no, hang about......

[Lord Jim]