Trekker or Trekkie? - Democratic Underground

Bossy Monkey

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Mon May-18-09 05:37 PM
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Poll question: Trekker or Trekkie?

After the original series was canceled and its fans became a cult (of sorts), they tended to be referred to as trekkies. At some point, they started objecting to this and insisting on trekker. It's 2009 now and frankly I'm so far out of the pop culture loop that I don't even have a guess whether anybody cares anymore or even remembers the distinction. Thoughts?

Note: Google hits
trekker 5.5M
trekkie 750K
One assumes that the former is a brand name (or a bunch of them).

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petronius

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Mon May-18-09 05:39 PM
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1. I consider myself to be both, but one of them involves sturdy shoes and

the great outdoors...

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Mike 03

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Mon May-18-09 05:57 PM
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2. As someone who began watching the reruns in the late Seventies, I've accepted

that demonination, "Trekkie." (I'm not much of a Trekkie these days, though.) It was not the most flattering term, but it is more particularized than "Trekker," which has so many other connotations for travelers.

For better or worse, I think we're stuck with "Trekkie."

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Bossy Monkey

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Mon May-18-09 08:31 PM
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6. "Demonination" may be the single greatest typo ever, particularly in this context.

Kudos!:toast: It may have been an accident, but I think you coined one.

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no name no slogan

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Mon May-18-09 06:21 PM
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3. Trekkist.

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frogmarch

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Mon May-18-09 06:34 PM
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4. My sons are both Trekkies, and

one of them and his wife, who's also a Trekkie, named their daughter after a Star Trek alien.

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Bossy Monkey

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Mon May-18-09 08:30 PM
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5. They didn't dye her green, did they?

The mind reels.:P

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sarge43

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Mon May-18-09 09:08 PM
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7. The way I heard it

Trekkies are the kids in Galaxy Quest.

Trekkers enjoy the series, are relatively knowledgeable, but don't the blueprints memorized or stored on their computers.

In short, a matter of degree.

FWIW

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