If die-hard Star Trek fans are "Trekkies" . . .

My daughter just explained to me that this would be "Potterheads"

Alessandra Kelley said:

Sorry. I had it drilled into me since infancy that they're "TrekeRRRRRRs".

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Please convey my thanks to the drillers.

Alessandra Kelley said:

Sorry. I had it drilled into me since infancy that they're "TrekeRRRRRRs".

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You know the first sign of being a Trekkie? Correcting someone with "TrekkeRRRRRR!"

Celia Cyanide said:

You know the first sign of being a Trekkie? Correcting someone with "TrekkeRRRRRR!"

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Supposedly amongst the hardcore, Trekkie and Trekker are both correct, but they describe two different kinds of fan.

Personally, I'm a pretty damn big Star Trek fan, but I've never called myself anything other than "big Star Trek fan," and I don't get the need to. Of course, I've never gone to a convention or donned a Starfleet Uniform, so maybe I just haven't ascended to the proper level of fandom.

Alessandra Kelley said:

Meh. I was also taught very sternly to abbreviate science fiction as "sf," and never as "sci-fi." I think there is some small number of people for whom the distinction in terminology is extremely important, but most are okay with any generally understandable term.

I brought up the Trekker thing to answer humor with humor, or at least that was my hope.

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As did I, with the same hope. I've always been a fan but, like JTWriter, I've never attended a convention or referred to myself as anything but a fan.

Jstwatchin said:

My daughter just explained to me that this would be "Potterheads"

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I was about to say. There's already a term.

--Proud Potterhead

Because sf is just two letters. It could mean something like San Fransisco, or stir fry, or sending flowers, or Stygian flogger, or showering freedom and doesn't really mean anything, Sci-fi is definitive of what people mean, rather than just two letter.

Alessandra Kelley said:

Sorry. I had it drilled into me since infancy that they're "TrekeRRRRRRs".

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A Trekker wonders what it would be like to have sex in zero gravity. A Trekkie just wonders what it would be like to have sex.

It's like geeks vs nerds.