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Some Trekkies regularly attend Star Trek Convention s (called "cons"), and are sometimes bitter rivals of hard core Star Wars fans. By analogy, Star Wars fans sometimes refer to themselves as "Warsies," and Mystery Science Theater 3000Mystery Science Theater 3000 also called MST3K was a cult television comedy series created by Joel Hodgson originating from Eden Prairie, Minnesota. Original episodes aired on Comedy Central and the Sci Fi Channel from 1988 to 1999. The show started with fans frequently refer to themselves as " MSTieMSTie rarely spelled MiSTie is a term for a fan of the show Mystery Science Theater 3000. It rhymes with "misty". It was coined by analogy to the term Trekkie, however, unlike that term, it is almost never considered derogatory. MSTies wear the label as as"

The term Trekkie is sometimes considered derogatory, perhaps because of a perceived parallel to the term groupieA groupie is a person whose devotion to a person (usually a celebrity, especially a rock and roll star) approaches the level of fanaticism. Groupie is derived from group meaning a musical band, but now has more general application. Female groupies in part. Some Star Trek enthusiasts prefer the term Trekker, while some others hold the latter term to be stupid and, for that reason, self-identify as Trekkies. Some Trekkies even say that Trekker is a Trekkie who is embarrassed for being Trekkie.

There are many Star Trek fan clubs, the largest currently being STARFLEET InternationalSTARFLEET: The International Star Trek Fan Association, Inc. also known as STARFLEET International SFI , is a club for fans of the television and film series, Star Trek. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, SFI is the world's largest science f which has about 4,000 members.

A 19971997 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar), and was designated the International Year of the Reef''. Events January January 3 NBC's Today Show Bryant Gumbel signs off for the last time January 8 Mister Rogers receives a star on t documentary film, called TrekkiesFor the fans of Star Trek themselves, see Trekkie. Trekkies is a 1997 documentary film directed by Roger Nygard about the devoted fans of Gene Roddenberry's series Star Trek''. Star Trek fandom., chronicled some of these devoted fans; a sequel followed in 2003.

There is a persistent stereotype that amongst Trekkies can be found speakers of the artificial Klingon languageThe Klingon language (in Klingon, tlhIngan Hol is a constructed language created by Marc Okrand for Paramount Pictures and spoken by Klingons in the fictional Star Trek universe. He designed the language with Object Verb Subject word order to give an alie. The reality is less clear-cut, as some of its most fluent speakers are more languageAs with any complex, emergent concept, language is somewhat resistant to definition; however, most would agree that language is a system of communication or reasoning using representation along with metaphor and some manner of logical grammar. Many langua aficionados than people obsessed with Star Trek. Most Trekkies have no more than a basic vocabulary of Klingon, like a few common words heard over the series innumerable times, but not Klingon's syntax or precise phonetics.

Trekkies have been parodied in several films including Galaxy Quest. William Shatner did a famous sketch on Saturday Night Live that also parodied Trekkies in which he played himself at a Star Trek convention at which he told the Trekkies to "get a life". There was once a pitch for a reality TV show featuring a group of "die hard" Trekkies and one normal person, though it remains to be seen if such an episode will be aired.

In recent years, infighting has erupted between different factions of Trekkies/Trekkers over the merits of recent incarnations of Star Trek, particularly the series Voyager and Enterprise which, for various reasons, have enraged almost as many Trekkies as they have entertained. Many Trekkies put the blame on the current producers of the program, while some of the most diehard Trekkies believe that Star Trek died when creator Gene Roddenberry passed away in 1991.

Many people believe that one of the major criteria for being a " nerd" is to be a Trekkie, and it is widely believed that Trekkies experience a high incidence of Asperger's Syndrome.

Note: The first people to call themselves Trekkies were writers of Slash fiction (Kirk/Spock). --