CRASHED FLYING SAUCER???

[AdamSmith]

Voortrekker?

trekker

A fan of any iteration of Star Trek, not just the Next Generation as elsewhere noted.

 

Original series Star Trek fans have had a preference for trekker, not trekkie, going back to the early '70s and the first conventions.

 

At about that time, the mainstream media discovered Star Trek fandom with feature stories that usually had a condescending spin, including the term trekkie. These were along the lines of "Who are these trekkies and why do they gather by the thousands to profess their love for an old canceled TV show?"

 

Those features often focused on the most extreme aspects of fandom that of course looked weirdest to non-fans, and didn't delve into what it was about the show that made fans so passionate. Thus were the beginnings of the "nerdy" cliches that have come to be associated with fans. It was to avoid associations with such cliches that original Star Trek fans became opposed to trekkie and sought to get the more serious-sounding term trekker used.

 

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=trekker

[jackjackjack]

http://www.science-fiction-corner.com/trekker-vs-trekkie.htm

[AdamSmith]

http://www.science-fiction-corner.com/trekker-vs-trekkie.htm

From that site:

 

A Trekker wears a STARFLEET uniform to a convention because its fun…

A Trekkie wears a uniform to a convention because s/he has heard that it is in style at the academy.

 

A Trekker has a STARFLEET Academy window sticker on his car…

A Trekkie is cramming for the entrance exams.

 

A Trekker thinks Wil Wheaton was a lucky kid who got to play a kid on Star Trek…

A Trekkie thinks that Wesley Crusher was a lucky kid who got to sit on the bridge.

 

A Trekker thinks that it is a shame that the show is coming to an end…

A Trekkie thinks that it is a shame that the crew is being reassigned and the Enterprise is being decommissioned.

[marylander1940]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeJ9HfMsolY

 

So many things like this all over the internet.

[samhexum]

[rvwnsd]

One thing that has always puzzled me about the possibility of advanced extraterrestrial civilizations, why are they so damn fascinated by the human anus? What's with the anal probes all these alleged alien abductees claim to experience?...

They don't like their bottoms to be dirty any more than the rest of us.