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Trekker or Trekkie? What are you?

Poll: Trekker or Trekkie? (106 member(s) have cast votes)

Trekker or Trekkie?

  1. Trekker (32 votes [30.19%])

    Percentage of vote: 30.19%

  2. Trekkie (74 votes [69.81%])

    Percentage of vote: 69.81%

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#101 User is offline   ensign edwards Icon

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Posted 30 April 2009 - 11:16 AM

Actually, I think they've stopped showing Enterprise now.
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Posted 01 May 2009 - 09:55 AM

View Postensign edwards, on Apr 30 2009, 09:43 AM, said:

You're Canadian, right? I know Space has been showing a lot of DS9 lately.

Although, if you ask me, you're not missing much. I never cared for DS9.

And if I could afford basic cable that would be great!. ^_^
I remember liking it in the later seasons when they started making the characters a little less two dimensional.


View PostAngelica Constantine, on Apr 30 2009, 10:37 AM, said:

They (Space) has been showing all the ST shows.

They used to at least. I think.
That and Spike played a lot too (so much so that we called it the star trek channel).

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  Posted 01 May 2009 - 11:12 AM

They still do. I watch it every weekday. I sometimes watch it on Spike. But not often.
ST: TNG, Enterprise, Voyager, DS9 and OST...if memory serves.

Recently they have been showing the first 5 movies in lieu of the new movie coming out. The next 5 start next Sunday May 3rd. All ten in 2 weeks. Yay...:lol:

Nooo, I ain't a Trekkie...LMAO :P
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Posted 03 May 2009 - 09:25 PM

Not sure how to reply...

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Posted 03 May 2009 - 10:49 PM

Well, Farquard... I know 'tlhIngan jIH' means I am Klingon. I also know "tlhIngan jIH" is a Klingon Opera.

I know how to speak Klingon.

I also have a Friend, Mistress Koloth part of K.A.G. and Kora'Tor my RP character is part Klingon.
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Posted 25 September 2009 - 09:30 AM

Im is trekkie. becouse i watch all 5-series "Star Trek". Every day play in game "Star Trek:elite force-2", watch "Star Trek:deep space nine". Trekkie-this fan watch all 5 series "Star Trek"+ 10 movies. Have all series "Star Trek" on DVD, have book about technologies("Star Trek:encyclopedia"), computer games,"Star Trek:official fact files" I'm vote for Trekkie. Trekkie knowledge all episodes all 5-series "Star Trek". Tolking on klingon language. I'm all talking on this posts.

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Posted 12 June 2011 - 11:00 AM

Trekkie sounds better.
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Posted 04 November 2011 - 05:40 PM

I suppose Trekker sounds a bit more dynamic. To my mind anyway. Trekkie sounds a bit too cuddly for my taste.
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Posted 23 November 2011 - 11:53 PM

When someone isn't into Star Trek or thinks it's ok but not a big deal is talking about someone who is a big Star Trek Fan, they call them a Trekkie. When a big Star Trek fan is talking about another big Star Trek Fan, they refer to them as a Trekker.
So big fans of the shows (mainly the ones that dress up and go to conventions and such) call one another Trekkers while outsiders say Trekkies.
For a while, "Trekkie" was a derogatory term used for Trek fans by outsiders, as an analogy with "hippie," or maybe "Moonie" (a derogatory term for followers of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon and his eccentric cult). It was intended as a term of ridicule. As with most groups subjected to a derogatory label, Trek fans tried to replace it with a more dignified alternative, latching on "Trekker" by analogy with "trucker," I believe.

But over the past couple of decades, being a science fiction or Star Trek fan has lost a lot of the stigma it used to have, so the negative baggage attached to "Trekkie" has kind of faded. Or perhaps the use of labels like "Yuppie" and "foodie" removed the scent of hostile ridicule from the "-ie" suffix and it came to be seen more neutrally, or even as a term of endearment. So today the distinction between Trekkie and Trekker is somewhat moot.
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Posted 25 November 2011 - 03:33 PM

Gene called us Trekkies...good enough for me...

Oh and Greystone...looks like I gave you bad advice about your avvie!
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Posted 26 November 2011 - 11:31 AM

Id love to say im a Trekker but i dont live in a location to be able to got to the conventions which really bothers me cause i have always wanted to go so badly. Therefore i say Trekkie for now.
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Posted 19 December 2011 - 08:03 AM

I don't think I qualify as either. I like TOS and TNG, but that's basically it. Not enough to call myself a Trekkie or Trekker.

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Posted 19 December 2011 - 08:54 AM

I think we need a third choice, how about Trekatarion?







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Posted 08 February 2012 - 08:01 PM

I tend to say I am a Star Trek fan, but I'll answer to Trekkie too.
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Posted 11 February 2012 - 03:39 PM

TREKKIE!

Hey...24thCfan...if you backread this thread, you'll see why I like the name of the site in your siggie!! *old winkie*
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Posted 15 February 2012 - 05:38 AM

I can't call oneself Trekkie,because i don't every day watch this series,i don't every day draw fan art on series,can't remember all episodes and personages.I can call oneself only viewer this series.
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