Originally Posted By: Nöwheremän
 Originally Posted By: Joe Mama
 Originally Posted By: Lucius Prometheus Vorenus
It's articles like these that give Star Trek fans a bad wrap. Fucking whack-jobs...


Oh, it's the articles? It's not the people who dress up in the costumes in non-con situations? Or the people who walk around, speaking Klingon to each other? Or the people who pepper what should be normal conversations with Trekisms?

How's about this person: I went to see Trek with my friends on Monday night thanks to favors that were called in. We sat and, for the most part, things in the theater were pretty durned normal - no one dressed up, no one commenting throughout the movie, no one having conniption fits about continuity issues. It was a pretty non-Trekfan crowd. Except for this one guy...

The movie ends and we're sitting through the credits because my friends want to see who played this guy and who played that girl - standard nerd stuff (I do the same with horror flicks). Behind us, this guy is talking to his son(? nephew? twink?) about all sorts of "when I was young, Trek..." stuff. It was like having Beardguy in the theater. Credits end, and we (and the other remaining groups of viewers) get up to leave when East Coast Beardguy says to all of us, "Hey, did anyone catch who played Nurse Chapel, or will she be in the sequel?" He starts snort-chuckling (yes, he was snorting and chuckling at the same time) at his witty joke while the rest of us look at each other and silently file out. I head into the men's room to take a piss when ECB comes in, lines up at the stall next to me, and starts blabbing about when he was young and Trek and how awesome that movie was and blah blah blah. In the men's room. At the stalls.

THERE'S NO TALKING IN THE MEN'S ROOM!!! THAT'S A FUCKING RULE!!! IT'S A FUCKING MAN LAW!!!

I quietly wash my hands and move towards the door when ECB asks me something about how new Trek compares with...whatever. I cut him off and, as politely as possible, say, "I'm sorry. I've never been a big fan of Trek. I'm just here with friends." To which he replies something about loving Trek and Star Wars, about being a rocker and a shit-kicking country fan, and not knowing whether to shit or go blind, about...well, I had rejoined my friends by this point and we had left the scene.

The movie wasn't awful, but it had enough flaws to keep me from calling it "great." But my enjoyment of the film was greatly tempered by this idiot's babbling and general nerdity. I realize that people like this guy are part of the reason I hate Trek as much as I do. So I asks ya, Pro, is it the articles that give Star Trek fans a bad name, or is it Star Trek fans that give Star Trek fans a bad name?

Thats pretty much what pisses me off with Trek fans, as I think I mentioned here once or twice before.

Yeah Star Wars fans can be huge nerds as well, but they dont relate everything in life to Star Trek.
It always pisses me off when you are talking about something serious or semi-serious, and those cunts come out with shit like "That reminds me of the time that Kirk/Picard/Spock/Janway etc......"

Theres lotsa tv & movie stuff that I love, but I dont feel the need to constantly reference them in real life.

You know the other thing that pisses me off with Trekies is they cannot understand why people dont like it, and always try to persuade you to watch this episode or this film, because it will change your mind about it.

Most people understand that their fave books/films/tv/comics are not gonna appeal to everyone, but Trekkies just dont get that.

And fer fucksake, if you have the time to learn how to speak a language, dont learn a made up useless one like Klingon, learn one that you can actually use in the real world.


Totally!

See, there are two different kind of Star Trek fans. The casual kind that enjoy it, can talk it, and treat it like entertainment or a hobby. The other kind is the kind that Joe met in the bathroom, Grimm met in an elevator, or the ones that Cunty beats up and takes their lunch money. Every franchise and fandom have their extremists. Some are more vocal than others, naturally. And with something like Trek that's been around for almost half-a-century, you're going to have a thick foundation of whackos out there tainting the pot for everyone. It's become a pseudo-religion, much like Jedi and all that, and thus there is a thread of fandom that feels the need to evangelize the Word of Rodenberry. Sadly enough, these are the same fans that don't realize Rodenberry was a tv writer cashing checks and laughing all the way to the bank concerning the supposed "idealogy" of the franchise.

As for his breaking of Bathroom Code Rule 1a, I can only surmise he was either trying to hit on you in some slash-fiction, down-on-the-planet bondage kind of way, or you were five minutes from having your kidney sliced out in a stall.

Sorry the jackass ruined the movie for you. I thought it was a killer action flick with some great special effects, good chemistry, and some nice comedy moments. The plot had holes you could drive a truck through, and Bana was paper-thin. Other than that, I dug it the most...