Trek-ker or Trek-kie

[Travis Kroells 0]

Whats the difference?  And if you do know, which one are you?  I personaly dont know so i cant vote on my own poll untill some one explains the difference!

[Dumbass 0]

Actually I like Star Wars better.  What does that make me?

[Vex Xiang 0]

There is no difference.

 

Its like saying theres a difference between a doggy and a dog.

[STSF Jorlis 0]

I'm a sci-fi fan.  :cool:

 

If there's a difference between Trekkie and Trekker, I'm not sure what it is.  I think Trekkie is more appropriate for a rabid fan... Trek + Junkie.  Trekker might apply more to us simmers... Trekkers, as in one who Treks.  :cool:

[Dumbass 0]

I'm a sci-fi fan.  :cool:

 

If there's a difference between Trekkie and Trekker, I'm not sure what it is.  I think Trekkie is more appropriate for a rabid fan... Trek + Junkie.  Trekker might apply more to us simmers... Trekkers, as in one who Treks.  :cool:

Trekkers can speak passible Klingon.  Trekkes can correct for grammar and syntax.

[FredM 0]

Actually I like Star Wars better.  What does that make me?

I don't think such words are allowed on these here boards.  :dead:

[Images 0]

Actually I like Star Wars better.  What does that make me?

when Fred gets hold of you, dead!

[Yvon Hawke 0]

I would consider myself a Trek-ker. I kinda derived my own descriptions of the two terms over the years.

 

A Trekkie is a person who include Star Trek into almost every aspect of their lives. They decorate their homes with Trek related materials to the extent of, but not limited, to collector's merchandise (collector's plates, signed pictures, etc.). A Trekkie goes to conventions dressed in their uniform with all the cheesy rank insignia and the misporportioned combadge, the phaser toys holstered to their belt and a tricorder in hand. Vulcan ears can be found on some and full blown Kingon, Bajorans and Borg drones can be found, to name a few others.

 

Trekkies also refer to the characters on tv shows and movies as the character and not the actors, on a typical basis. Trekkies keep talking as if the characters are real people and who's going to get together with who and the whole soap opera theme starts to come into play. They can certainly talk about the actors as their names, but it's not quite as often as the other way around.

 

Trekkies join up with the Starfleet Fan club and then find their local chapter and meet every week.

 

Trekkies take their own approach to life and extend it into everything they do Trek Related.

 

They may even make web sites tht are Trek related. But, they stay within the lines of the TV shows/movies with character bios, episode guides, screen capture pics, audio and video captaures, etc. Basically, just collections of studio produced material(s). Fanfics on existing characters will fall here also.

 

Trekkies are people who take everything Star Trek, toss it all into a blender and blend on the highest setting.

 

Trekkers are a little more refined. They look deeper. They pay more attention to the science, the ideology. They don't dress up when they go to conventions (should they go at all). They see the show/movie as such and don't model their own life within it. They see the stories as the stories.

 

Trekkers may join up with fan groups, such as simming, but keep it safely distant from their real lives. But, they might also do things such as web sites, but take a more original route, such as sim web sites, as develope everythig from scratch and be a lot more original. Resource sites for graphics, 3D art, web developement, etc., are also created. These sites are on a more focused route than Trekkie sites.

 

I have more, but I'm at work and have other boards to check out before I start the day.

[Webmaster 20]

So what about those good folks who enjoy simming, know how to keep it seperate, but also enjoy going to the conventions, meeting the actors, etc.

 

What about those that get together once a week with 6-7 friends in one room with a bunch of computers (both desktops and laptops)...  having half of the 14 person sim sitting in one room?  ::):

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So what about those good folks who enjoy simming, know how to keep it seperate, but also enjoy going to the conventions, meeting the actors, etc.

 

What about those that get together once a week with 6-7 friends in one room with a bunch of computers (both desktops and laptops)...  having half of the 14 person sim sitting in one room?  ::):

Please cease Randy! As we all know, the users of this site (including me) have little minds! minds that cannot take this confusion! AAAARG! head hurts! just to stop it i propose a new name "Trekko"! which we will never, ever define so that everyone can be it and think they know perfectly what it means!

[Atragon9 0]

I would consider myself a Trek-ker....

 

A Trekkie is a person who include Star Trek into almost every aspect of their lives...

 

Trekkers are a little more refined. They look deeper.

Sounds like he's worried, doesn't he?  These definitions makin' ya nervous???

 

-Capta...  uhh, uhmm

 

-A9

[Yvon Hawke 0]

So what about those good folks who enjoy simming, know how to keep it seperate, but also enjoy going to the conventions, meeting the actors, etc.

 

What about those that get together once a week with 6-7 friends in one room with a bunch of computers (both desktops and laptops)...  having half of the 14 person sim sitting in one room?  ::):

These, as they're written by you, could be either. It just matters as to the extent of those items that makes the difference.

[LoAmi 0]

What about those that get together once a week with 6-7 friends in one room with a bunch of computers (both desktops and laptops)...  having half of the 14 person sim sitting in one room?  ::):

This is probably a dumb question (and totally topic-irrelevant) but:

If you can get together so many people in one place to sim, why use the computers?

[Travis Kroells 0]

Well im not quite a trek-kie or a trek-ker, but im more of the latter.  While I enjoy the the trek life i would not go as far as to walk up to Kate Mulgrew and ask "Hey how was life in teh delta quaderant?"  Thats just sick.  Either way I like to combine the idielogy and the science of startrek into my life.  And well I guess the only thing I've realy done that define's a Trek-kie is write a couple of novels and shortstories but then again, Im a semi professional writer and i dont think there isnt a scifi series that i havent done a story on.  Oh and I do have a couple of voyager collectors plates, but man those things rule and im never taking them down.  :)

[Yvon Hawke 0]

What about those that get together once a week with 6-7 friends in one room with a bunch of computers (both desktops and laptops)...  having half of the 14 person sim sitting in one room?  ::):

This is probably a dumb question (and totally topic-irrelevant) but:

If you can get together so many people in one place to sim, why use the computers?

::busts a gut::

[Captain Huff 0]

Semantics, semantics.  They're just stupid words that some fools coined along the way, and most Trek enthusiasts don't give a targ turd what the difference is.

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Semantics, semantics.  They're just stupid words that some fools coined along the way, and most Trek enthusiasts don't give a targ turd what the difference is.

i like your alliteration there!

[Yvon Hawke 0]

Wow.

[AndrewLyon 0]

Considering all the wierd polls that go on here. Its nice to see a majority doesn't care! Yeah;-)

[Dumbass 0]

While I enjoy the the trek life i would not go as far as to walk up to Kate Mulgrew and ask "Hey how was life in teh delta quaderant?"  Thats just sick.

OK, I have a convention story to share with you all.

 

I convinced my dad to go with me to a Star Trek convention.  It was about a mile from my house, about 1/2 mile from his, and since admission was about $10 it was a cheap way to entertain ourselves for a day.  (It was also partnered with an "adult entertainment industry" convention that evening but that's another story.   :) )

 

Among the people to have an autograph booth there was Majel Barrett.  First of all you could smell the alcohol on her breath from 5 booths down.  Nevertheless I asked her why, since Picard cringed at the sound of Lwoxana's voice, he never changed the voice of the computer.  

 

She didn't have an answer.  My dad was laughing at me the whole time and forced me to watch Galaxy Quest that night.  It was almost as embarrassing as the time we heard on the radio there was that mental health organization in Oregon looking for a Klingon interpreter and I mentioned I was Chief Engineer on a Klingon ship.

[Travis Kroells 0]

Van roy this is why i avoid you in the chat rooms

[STSF StarDust 0]

Ok.. I have autographed photos. I have collector plates. I have over 400 Playmates figures (packed in boxes). I have been on a Star Trek Cruise. (Awesome).

Yet, on the cruise, I didn't go to the make up sessions, or try my best to *hang out* with the stars. I some nice chats with Eric Menyk (sp?) his wife and child.

I have been to two conventions. I met Denise Crosby at one. Funny thing there, there was a guy who had the playboy and she autographed it! The other one was so huge I didn't see anyone, much less talk to anyone.

I have been to the Arcadia *Trekfest* at the Las Vegas hilton. We had a blast, but it was the friendship of meeting people I played with online more than the trek stuff that attracted me. Say fellow Arcadians.. when are we gonna do it again???

And when i was last in Vegas, I spent an afternoon doing the experience, eating at Quarks, buying a battery operated tribble and a targ.

I have had offers to join a local Trek club.. way to trekkie for me. I don't speak Klingon, Romulan, or Cardassian.

I did however, create a whole culture including govt and religon for the Deltans in another sim group.

 

Trekkie.. Trekker... neither. Just a Trek fan.

[Yvon Hawke 0]

You crossed into both realms on that one.

[Dumbass 0]

I met Denise Crosby at one. Funny thing there, there was a guy who had the playboy and she autographed it!

Does anyone know what issue that was?  :cool:

[Images 0]

I met Denise Crosby at one. Funny thing there, there was a guy who had the playboy and she autographed it!

Does anyone know what issue that was?  :cool:

Meet me at McDonalds, bring a hundred dollars