From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From Address: dxmm@albury.nospam.net.au
Subject: Re: Star Trek Into Darkness

Bast wrote:
> Daniel47@teranews.com wrote:
>> Bast wrote:
>>
>> 
>>> Sadly you are correct.
>>> Like everything else nowadays, a well known product name, no longer
>>> denotes any expected quality, just  more cheaply sweatshop-made
>>> overpriced crap. But that's why after 40 years, I no longer claim to be a
>>> "trekkie", as
>>> the farther I distance myself from those newer movies, the better.
>>> ...I even managed to hang on through the public humiliation of the
>>> voyager and enterprise years,....but there ARE limits.
>>
>> and there you go, another difference!
>>
>> As "Bikie" tends to refer to the "hard core", violent, people who ride
>> motorcycles, and "Biker" tends to refer to the clean cut person who
>> rides a motorcycle, I tend to think of myself as a "Treker", rather than
>> a "Trekkie"!
>>
>> IMO, of course!
>>
>> Daniel
>
>
>
> Strangely enough I once thought the same thing.
> Then was told by many Trek people that the "trekker," was the total whacko's
> who actually decorated their homes to look like the bridge of the
> enterprise.
>
> So from then I told people I was a trekkie.
> Now after the abrams movies,....I publicly deny any knowlege of anything
> Trek.
> ...But privately still treasure my TOS original issue DVD's, and the VHS
> set.

Me, myself, I have TOS original issue DVD's, and the TOS Films on VHS 
tape and DVD (or, at least my neighbour has my film DVD's).

Daniel

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