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

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


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