Recently I was talking with people about how I watch TNG, DS9, Voyager, Picard, Lower Decks and people point if I’m a trekkie, and to be honest I don’t feel like a fan of Star Trek despite is mostly the only series I care to watch apart of Avatar Aang/Korra.
I tried to get into The Original Series, but I just can’t, today I saw Mirror mirror, I don’t know if I’m a trekkie really, but people still seeing me like that.
After that, I have two choises, watch Enterprise or Strange New World and I think I will go for SNW.
Lifelong Trekker here. FWIW, there terms are interchangeable. It was once explained to me that Trekkers are more casual fans while Trekkies get into the nitty gritty technical details about how stuff works. I’ve also heard it’s the reverse. I’m more of a casual fan but I also like a good debate on transporters and replicators, so I really fit in both camps and can choose my label.
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I’d assume that most people are familiar with the term Trekkie, but would have to use context to figure out Trekker (“you like long walks?”)
Whatever the intention, coining/identifying as a separate term suggests someone taking it quite seriously. I just consider them synonyms.
For a time “Trekkie” was seen as derogatory, so “Trekker” was invented by people who didn’t want to be seen as “one of those fans”
The distinction seems to have slowly fallen away, and now I rarely see “Trekker” used at ask.
@usernamefactory @Deebster The more Star Trek series that someone has seen all of, the more likely they are to call themselves a Trekkie. https://researchscape.com/consumer-research-2/paramount-subscribers-and-star-trek-fans #StarTrek #Trekkie
I’m describe myself as Star Trek fan then.
@cuchi What I take from the survey results is that you can describe yourself however you like!
Trekker was always the self-identified name for the fandom. Trekkie is what everyone else called them, most often in a disparaging way.
From what I’ve been told Trekker was the OG term and Gene started calling fans Trekkies at conventions because he thought it sounded better. I don’t know if it’s true or not.