"Danish Madsen M-50 submachine guns. The planet 892-IV was renamed Magna Roma in the Pocket Books published """" novel ""The Captain's Honor"" in late 1989 . In the book ""Star Trek: Star Charts"" from 2002 (), Magna Roma is listed as having attained mid-21st cent. technology by the time period of Star Trek: TNG, which in the Star Trek universe would make the system eligible for membership in the United Federation of Planets. An episode titled: for the internet Star Trek fan film series known as and Star Trek: Phase II. That story uses the same setting and follows-up on"
"Trekkie A Trekkie or Trekker is a fan of the ""Star Trek"" franchise, or of specific television series or films within that franchise. In 1967, science fiction editor Arthur W. Saha applied the term ""trekkies"" when he saw a few fans of the first season of """" wearing pointy ears at the 25th World Science Fiction Convention, on the day series creator Gene Roddenberry showed a print of ""Amok Time"" to the convention. Saha used the term in an interview with Pete Hamill that Hamill was conducting for ""TV Guide"" concerning the phenomenon of science fiction. Many early Trekkies were"
"be Trekkies, playing the game of ""Klingon Boggle"" and resolving disputes using the game of ""rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock"". Wil Wheaton of """" fame has made multiple guest appearances playing an evil version of himself. LeVar Burton, Brent Spiner, Leonard Nimoy (as a voice actor), and George Takei have also appeared on the series. There was also the 1997 film ""Trekkies"" and its 2004 sequel ""Trekkies 2"" that chronicles the life of many trekkies. Trekkie A Trekkie or Trekker is a fan of the ""Star Trek"" franchise, or of specific television series or films within that franchise. In 1967, science fiction editor Arthur"
"said: According to Michael Jindra of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the show's fandom ""has strong affinities with a religious-type movement"", with ""an origin myth, a set of beliefs, an organization, and some of the most active and creative members to be found anywhere."" While he distinguishes between ""Star Trek"" fandom and the traditional definition of religion that requires belief in divinity or the supernatural, Jindra compares ""Star Trek"" fandom to both ""'quasi-religions,' such as Alcoholics Anonymous and New Age groups""—albeit more universal in its appeal and more organized—and civil religion. As with other faiths, Trekkies find comfort in their worship."
"Some say that ""Trekkie"" is ""frequently depreciative"", thus, ""not an acceptable term to serious fans"", who prefer ""Trekker"". The distinction existed as early as May 1970, when the editor of fanzine ""Deck 6"" wrote: By 1976, media reports on ""Star Trek"" conventions acknowledged the two types of fans: In the 1991 TV show ""Star Trek: 25th Anniversary Special"", Leonard Nimoy attempted to settle the issue by stating that ""Trekker"" is the preferred term. During an appearance on ""Saturday Night Live"" to promote the 2009 ""Star Trek"" film, Nimoy – seeking to assure Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto, the ""new"" Kirk"
"the large majority of fan club administrators, fanfiction authors, and fanzine editors, and the Mary Sue-like ""story premise of a female protagonist aboard the ""Enterprise"" who romances one of the ""Star Trek"" regulars, [became] very common in fanzine stories."" So many single women left fan activities after getting married that one female fanzine editor speculated that the show was a substitute for sex. One scholar speculates that Kirk/Spock slash fiction is a way for women to ""openly discuss sexuality in a non-judgmental manner."" There is considerable disagreement among ""Star Trek"" fans over whether to use the term ""Trekkie"" or ""Trekker""."
"show was Academy Award winner Whoopi Goldberg, who had been a long-time ""Star Trek"" fan. She credited Nichelle Nichols as Uhura in ""The Original Series"" as an inspiration, saying ""Well, when I was nine years old Star Trek came on, I looked at it and I went screaming through the house, 'Come here, mum, everybody, come quick, come quick, there's a black lady on television and she ain't no maid!' I knew right then and there I could be anything I wanted to be."" To appear on the show, Goldberg contacted the producers initially through LeVar Burton. The producers did"
"articles are representative of many media depictions of Trekkies, with fascination with ""Star Trek"" a common metaphor for useless, ""fetishistic"" obsession with a topic; fans thus often hide their devotion to avoid social stigma. Such depictions have helped popularize a view of devoted fans, not just of ""Star Trek"", as potential fanatics. Reinforced by the well-known acts of violence by John Hinckley, Jr. and Mark David Chapman, the sinister, obsessed ""fan in the attic"" has become a stock character in works such as the films ""The Fan"" (1981) and ""Misery"" (1990), and the television series ""Black Mirror"". Patrick Stewart objected"
"convention where Gene Roddenberry used the term ""trekkies"" to describe fans of the show, only to be corrected by a fan that stood up and yelled ""Trekkers!"" Gene Roddenberry responded with ""No, it's 'Trekkies.' I should know — I invented the thing."" ""Star Trek"" fans who hold """" to be the best series of the franchise adopted the title of ""Niner"" following the episode ""Take Me Out to the Holosuite"", in which Captain Benjamin Sisko formed a baseball team called ""The Niners"". Throughout the years, Trekkies have explored the arts to express their appreciation for and immersion in the show,"
"had significantly improved its stations' ratings, and the ""Los Angeles Times"" commented on ""Star Trek""s ability to ""acquire the most enviable ratings in the syndication field"". By 1972, what the Associated Press described as ""the show that won't die"" aired in more than 100 American cities and 60 other countries, and more than 3,000 fans attended the first ""Star Trek"" convention in New York City. Fans of the show became increasingly organized, gathering at conventions to trade merchandise, meet actors from the show, and watch screenings of old episodes. Such fans came to be known as ""trekkies"", who were noted"
"at a fund-raiser at the NAACP and was told there was a big fan who wanted to meet her. Nichols said, I thought it was a Trekkie, and so I said, 'Sure.' I looked across the room, and there was Dr. Martin Luther King walking towards me with this big grin on his face. He reached out to me and said, 'Yes, Ms. Nichols, I am your greatest fan.' He said that ""Star Trek"" was the only show that he, and his wife Coretta, would allow their three little children to stay up and watch. [She told King about her"
"Trek"" franchise and/or notable ""Star Trek"" fans with professional experience in the entertainment industry. Bjo Trimble—who coordinated the letter-writing campaigns that successfully saved the original ""Star Trek"" series from cancellation at the end of its second season and petitioned President Gerald R. Ford to rename NASA's first space orbiter ""USS ""Enterprise"""" and who also wrote ""The Star Trek Concordance""—and her husband John were guests of honor at the 2016 Treklanta and presenters of awards at that year's Independent ""Star Trek"" Fan Film Awards ceremony. At the end of the ceremony, Mrs. Trimble told Watts how impressed she was with the"
"AAAS Research Grant most recently. Iacovino is the Editor-in-Chief of TrekMovie.com, as a longstanding Star Trek fan. She believes that science fiction is a useful tool in helping the public gain interest in science. She was also inspired by Kate Mulgrew's character - the first female captain of Star Trek. Mulgrew has since met with Iacovino and noted that unlike Iacovino, she ""only played one [scientist] on TV."" Iacovino is involved in encouraging young women to pursue STEM careers, such as with projects like the Curiosity Science Program created through a Gold Award Project by one of BBC's 100 Women"
"Joan Winston Joan Winston (19 June 1931 – 11 September 2008) was an American Trekker who helped organize the first ""Star Trek"" fan convention and became a key figure in the subculture. Fellow fans compare her level of devotion to Betty Jo Trimble, the fan who led the campaign to keep ""Star Trek"" on the air. Winston attended the filming of what would be the final episode and impressed everyone on set, including creator Gene Roddenberry. Winston was able to secure Roddenberry's attendance at the first convention, and she also arranged for tapes of 15 episodes, a blooper reel, and"
"when an interviewer described Trekkies as ""weird"", calling it a ""silly thing to say"". He added, ""How many do you know personally? You couldn't be more wrong."" (According to Stewart, however, the actors dislike being called Trekkies and are careful to distinguish between themselves and the Trekkie audience.) Asimov said of them, ""Trekkies are intelligent, interested, involved people with whom it is a pleasure to be, in any numbers. Why else would they have been involved in ""Star Trek"", an intelligent, interested, and involved show?"" The central trio of Kirk, Spock, and McCoy was modeled on classical mythological storytelling. Shatner"
"and lightheartedness of ""Star Trek"" is here, and in many ways it's kind of wonderful. I'm honestly surprised something like this exists."" He says ""TV critics"" were wrong and suggests their opinions are based on disliking MacFarlane and his type of humor. In the October 15, 2017 episode of ""The Angry Joe Show"", ""The Orville Mid-Season Angry Review"", host Joe Vargas noted the gulf between the response to the series among critics and viewers, contrasting the Rotten Tomatoes' 19% approval rating from professional critics to the 91% viewer approval rating. Vargas compared this to """", which received an 83% rating"
"also fans of ""The Man From U.N.C.L.E."" (1964–1968), another show with science fiction elements and a devoted, ""cult""-like audience. The first ""Star Trek"" fanzine, ""Spockanalia"", appeared in September 1967, including the first published fan fiction based on the show. Roddenberry, who was aware of and encouraged such activities, a year later estimated that 10,000 wrote or read fanzines. The mainstream science fiction magazine ""If"" published a poem about Spock, accompanying a Virgil Finlay portrait of the Vulcan. Perhaps the first large gathering of fans occurred in April 1967. When Leonard Nimoy appeared as Spock as grand marshal of the Medford"
"with the franchise's 50th anniversary. ""Star Trek"" has been a cult phenomenon for decades. Fans of the franchise are called Trekkies or Trekkers. The franchise spans a wide range of spin-offs including games, figurines, novels, toys, and comics. ""Star Trek"" had a in Las Vegas that opened in 1998 and closed in September 2008. At least two museum exhibits of props travel the world. The series has its own full-fledged constructed language, Klingon. Several parodies have been made of ""Star Trek"". In addition, viewers have produced several fan productions. As of July 2016, the franchise had generated $10 billion in"
"and Spock, that most fans would embrace them – initially referred to ""Trekkies"" before correcting himself and saying ""Trekkers,"" emphasizing the second syllable, with a deadpan delivery throughout that left ambiguous whether this ostensible misstep and correction were indeed accidental or instead intentional and for comic effect. In the documentary ""Trekkies"", Kate Mulgrew stated that Trekkers are the ones ""walking with us"" while the Trekkies are the ones content to simply sit and watch ""Star Trek"". The issue is also shown in the film ""Trekkies 2"", in which a ""Star Trek"" fan recounts a supposed incident during a ""Star Trek"""
"appear on ""Star Trek"". When Nichols considered quitting the show in the late 60's, she was told someone wanted to meet her, claiming to be her biggest fan. The fan was Martin Luther King Jr., who convinced her not to leave the show because ""For the first time on television, we [people of African descent] will be seen as we should be seen every day, as intelligent, quality, beautiful people who can sing and dance, yes, but who can go into space, who can be lawyers and teachers, who can be professors — who are in this day, yet you"
"which occurred on January 21–23, 1972 in New York City. Although the original estimate of attendees was only a few hundred, several thousand fans turned up. ""Star Trek"" fans continue to attend similar conventions worldwide. The series' newfound success led to the idea of reviving the franchise. Filmation with Paramount Television produced the first post original series show, """". It ran on NBC for 22 half-hour episodes over two seasons on Saturday mornings from 1973 to 1974. Although short-lived, typical for animated productions in that time slot during that period, the series garnered the franchise's only ""Best Series"" Emmy Award"
"""Star Trek"" fan fiction series. Its words were picked up and used by other fan fiction authors such as Claire Gabriel. One term, ""ni var"", meaning an art form in which two contrasting aspects of a subject are compared, is still used on """", as the name of a Vulcan ship. She has written numerous short stories and two novels; she sometimes writes as ""Katherine Blake."" Many of her stories appear in collections edited by Marion Zimmer Bradley, including the ""Sword and Sorceress"" series, and stories in the Darkover series shared world. ""Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine"" published many of"
"Star Trek Star Trek is an American space opera media franchise based on the science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry. The first television series, simply called ""Star Trek"" and now referred to as """""""", debuted in 1966 and aired for three seasons on the television network NBC. It followed the interstellar adventures of Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) and his crew aboard the starship USS ""Enterprise"", a space exploration vessel, built by the United Federation of Planets in the twenty-third century. The ""Star Trek"" canon of the franchise includes ""The Original Series"", an animated series, five spin-off"
"Star Trek Marian Engel (née Marian Ruth Passmore) - Award-Winning Novelist, Order of Canada Kerry Fraser - National Hockey League Referee Roger John Gallaway - Member of the Parliament of Canada, former Mayor of Sarnia Mike Gardiner - Major League Baseball player Douglas George - Consul General of Canada in Detroit William Goodison - Member of the Parliament of Canada Ross Gray - Member of the Parliament of Canada William John Hanna - Provincial Secretary and Registrar of Ontario, Legislative Assembly of Ontario Kyle Hall - Canadian Football League player Robert Edward Hurlock - Canadian Football League player, Sarnia Lambton"
"continuity of the original series itself was inconsistent at times. Orci and Kurtzman said they wanted the general audience to like the film as much as the fans, by stripping away ""Treknobabble"", making it action-packed and giving it the simple title of ""Star Trek"" to indicate to newcomers they would not need to watch any of the other films. Abrams saw humor and sex appeal as two integral and popular elements of the show that needed to be maintained. Orci stated being realistic and being serious were not the same thing. Abrams, Burk, Lindelof, Orci and Kurtzman were fans of"
"Star Trek: The Original Series Star Trek is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry that follows the adventures of the starship and its crew. It later acquired the retronym of Star Trek: The Original Series (TOS) to distinguish the show within the media franchise that it began. The show is set in the Milky Way galaxy, roughly during the 2260s. The ship and crew are led by Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner), first officer and science officer Spock (Leonard Nimoy), and chief medical officer Leonard McCoy (DeForest Kelley). Shatner's voice-over introduction during each episode's opening"
"LeVar Burton learned from a friend that Jemison was an avid ""Star Trek"" fan. Burton asked her if she would be interested in being on the show, to which she responded, ""Yeah!!"" Jemison had been inspired by the character of Uhura on ""Star Trek"" and has been a lifelong fan of the show. Jemison has also appeared as host and technical consultant of the Discovery Channel science series ""World of Wonder"". In 2006, Jemison participated in ""African American Lives"", a PBS television miniseries hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., that traces the family history of eight famous African Americans using"
"participants are Star Trek fans, but there are also many students who focus only on the language. The meeting starts on Thursday and ends on Sunday. Because of the different arrival times of the participants, there is no official schedule on the first day, but Klingonists use that spare time to talk about Klingon. During the meeting there are several lectures and games to learn Klingon for the beginners while the advanced speakers chat in Klingon by themselves in separate groups. At the last evening, there is a traditional party where some of the participants enjoy dressing up as Klingons."
"500 attendees at the ""First International ""Star Trek"" Convention"" but more than 3,000 came; attendees later described it as ""packed"" and like ""a rush-hour subway train"". By then more than 100 fanzines about the show existed, its reruns were syndicated to 125 American TV stations and 60 other countries, and news reports on the convention caused other fans, who had believed themselves to be alone, to organize. Some actors, such as Nichelle Nichols, were unaware of the size of the show's fandom until the conventions, but major and minor cast members began attending them around the United States. The conventions"
"when writing a weekly series. Asimov corrected himself with a follow-up essay to ""TV Guide"" claiming despite its inaccuracies, that ""Star Trek"" was a fresh and intellectually challenging science fiction television show. The two remained friends to the point where Asimov even served as an adviser on a number of ""Star Trek"" projects. Star Trek: The Original Series Star Trek is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry that follows the adventures of the starship and its crew. It later acquired the retronym of Star Trek: The Original Series (TOS) to distinguish the show within the media"
"is—and that's looking across the way to the person sitting in front of you and realizing you are the same, that they are not separate from you, and we are all one. That's something 'Star Trek' has always upheld and I completely believe that is why it's been a mainstay in society in the hearts of so many people for so many decades. [...] It's one of the foundational principles of ""Star Trek"" and I feel if you miss that then you miss the legacy itself. I'm incredibly proud to be the lead of this show and be at the"
"fandoms of other genres and media—the study of science fiction fandom within cultural studies and science fiction studies is relatively new. Consequently, assertions about the prevalence of women in fandom are largely anecdotal and personal, and sometimes contradictory. Most prominent among these assertions is the claim that it was the advent of the original ""Star Trek"" television series which brought large quantities of women into fandom. This claim is critically analyzed by Davin, who finds it poorly founded, and cites a long history of female involvement in fandom decades prior to ""Star Trek""; Larbalestier also cites women active in science"
"saying, ""Fan reception to the character, and to the show as a whole, ran hot and cold. Previous female “Star Trek” characters had been helpmates — a switchboard operator (Lt. Uhura in the original series), a therapist (Counselor Troi in """"), a healer (Dr. Crusher in """"). None had been a war veteran with emotional skeletons. Visitor said, “Some people in the ‘Star Trek’ world were like, 'That’s not what a woman in “Star Trek” should be. That’s the wrong thing to be teaching. But what I saw her as was a woman of appetite and gray area — lots"