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Blackleaf

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No. It's definitely Trekkie.

Doctor Who fans are known as Whovians, and Stars Wars fans are known as...... Star Wars fans.
 
B00Mer

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petros said:
It's Trekker B00Mer. Trekker. Not Trekkie
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You're always just looking for a chance to one up people here and your ignorance has made you look silly and immature. It's trekkie.

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In the film Trekkies 2, 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."
 
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Blackleaf said:
In the film Trekkies 2, 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."
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“It actually was Gene that mentioned the option of using the word Trekker at the time we were trying to think of a name."
 
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spaminator said:
the other star trek series did sometimes have non humanoid aliens. :)
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WLDB said:
The first hour or so was pretty good. The second half on the other hand was a mess. Ripping off Wrath of Khan was extremely annoying. I dont mean using Khan. I don't mind that part. I think Cumberbatch's performance was the best thing about the new movie. I mean the fake Kirk "death" scene where they actually took the words line for line right out of Wrath of Khan. Even the shots were the same. The only difference was Kirk and Spock traded places. Then Spock yelling "Khan!!" was laughable. Seriously. I saw it in theatres and a lot of people laughed at that part. I have a feeling that death scene was not supposed to be funny. If they had left Kirk dead it would have been better. At least when Wrath of Khan ended Spock was still dead and no one thought he would be coming back. In this movie Kirk was "dead" for five minutes.

My only other complaint was that there was too much action and too little plot and character development. Really take the action out and the movie is about the length of one episode without commercials (45 minutes). It was really well done action and the special effects were awesome but really, if the plot is thin and I dont care about the characters in the action it looses its effect. It just becomes dull eye candy with little to no re-watch value.

It was also funny that the supposed villain, Khan, was justified with most of his actions. The Admiral he skull crushed seemed to be the real villain to me.



Q, The Prophets, Pah-wraiths, Changelings, the Xindi (3 of the species anyway), the crystalline entity, cytoplasmic life form, species 8472. Those are the ones I can think of off hand. All in the sequel series.
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Ok, then I amend my comment to say that by far, alien lifeforms in the sequel series have been humanoid. I guess it cost too much to have cgi effects or have actors made-up.

hhhmmm Perhaps since people mindlessly following musical groups are called "groupies" "Trekkies" should be the term for people mindlessly following ST. "Trekker" could be the term for the fish that follow ST, as in "grouper". :)
 
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