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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