Reveka

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    in school we had to give a speech on something that we felt strongly about and had to give a good argument to convince people to believe us. i did mine on Star Trek. main title: Trekkies are NOT freaks.

     

    below is a version of it i had typed up. i will type what i had on my note card up and put it up latter. enjoy.

     

     

    “I always would say to people, Trekkies are kids who run down the aisle screaming “Spock”. I’m a Trekker. I walk down the aisle.” Joanie Winston

     

    Trekkies are not freaks

    Rachel Jones

     

    I’m not a nerd I’m a Trekkie, which is of course worse. Or so that’s what most people believe. Often, when the word Trekkie or Trekker is uttered, most people conjure up the image of a short person in a homemade Star Trek uniform, with glasses and fake pointed ears running around screaming “Spock” or “Beam me up, Scotty!” This person is also thought to have no friends, lives with his or her parents, and is up late at nights on the computer. Granted, there are some who are like that, but not all Trekkies or Trekkers are like that. We, and yes I am admitting to be a Trekkie, cause I’m not a closet Trekkie, are not all nerds, or freaks. We are normal people and proud to be called Trekkies. I can prove to you that there are normal people that are just like you, that will dress up in a costume and go to conventions for fun and are all over the world.

    For example, country number one: in Italy, there is a woman who works at a bank as a cashier who dresses up as a Klingon with the rubber latex and make up and clothes, the whole works and goes to conventions. Also, Father Bernie Carman, a Catholic priest who dresses up in a Star Trek uniform and goes to conventions. He once offered to do mass, and over 100 people came. In Brazil, there is a man named Denizar Franco who has collected over 200 items of Star Trek memorabilia. He has a wife and two children. Sergio Caffe is a Star Trek fan and a radio DJ. Here in the United States, Daryl Frazeti, who goes to goes to Northern Illinois University, who dresses his cats up it Star Trek outfits.

    Gabriel Koener is 21 years old, married and whose job is a visual effects modeler. He builds space ships and set extensions on computers. He’s a Trekkie. Trekkies do know there are some extreme fans. In Trekkies 2, in which most of these people were interviewed, a German fan said, “ If you can’t separate fiction and reality, then it’s gone too far.” So if a Trekkie can say that, then they all haven’t gone too far and shouldn’t be stereotyped as freaks. I mean, do you call the people who paint themselves the color of their favorite football team and go to games that way and were the hats with the string things that come down that look like dread locks freaks?

    Trekkies are pretty nice people. Donna Fleming had a son who was diagnosed with a terminal genetic disease and they had lost their health insurance. She lived next door to a Star Trek fan club member. When they heard about it, they raised funds to help pay the bills and when he died they helped pay for his funeral.

    “At a Star Trek convention you will never have trouble, or some drunken people. They are all nice people. But on a football stadium you always have police, paramedics, and this is normal.” says Robbie Amper. And that’s true. Look at the riots that happen at soccer games. Actually, that guy was British, so he may have actually meant soccer, cause they call it that over there.

    I agree with Ralfo Furtado of Brazil, who owns a Star Trek shop. He said: “I’m proud of being a Trekker. I’ve never harmed anyone.” And I hope that the next time you hear Trekkie or Trekker, you don’t see a little dude with fake pointed ears on and big glasses, but think of Denizar Franco, with his wife and kids. He is just a normal guy who enjoys Star Trek.

  4. Posted · Edited by Reveka

    i got this movie and just finnished watching the movie with the directers comments on it and they said that if you thought you'd be a good person to interveiw for Trekkies 3, to give them an email = Trekkiestwo@aol.com

     

    so i did, and i said i am a trekkie in amish country, cause i am, and they sent me an email back. :b-day:

     

    if you would like to see the email, [please look] go to Why, yes, I am Mad...

     

    i am trying to put it up as i type this now, but something is going wrong--- but it'll get there to-day. woo hoo.

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    ok, thanks you guys.

     

    now, can anyone tell me if it was Alexander Siddig that played Bashir in the Next Generation episode "Birthright"? i am curious.

     

    i thought it was neat that in the mirror universe on ds9 that they had Tuvok, -and i wanted to know if Siddig was the one to play his Bashir character.

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    i was wondering if they (spike) skipped a season cause i recorded ds9 one day and -there was Worf. i think it may have been the first one or one of the first ones and i was like HEY!! there's worf. whats he doing here? but i am happy, trials and tribbleations will be on soon. whee!!! :dude: