This is going to hurt some of you. This is going to feel like a punch to the gut. Some of you may even puke a little.
I’m not a Star Trek fan.
There, I said it. I personally never really liked the concept of the show. Not a big Shat fan. I just couldn’t identify with it like I did Star Wars or even The Black Hole.
That’s not to say that I hold any animosity toward Trek fans. I understand why they like the show. It just doesn’t speak to me like it does to them. No biggie.
With all that said, however, I will be trying to get into closed beta for Star Trek Onlineand I may even buy the game and give it a run through. It looks like a solid game with decent space combat. I’ll even say it looks like it will succeed where Star Wars Galaxies has failed. A genre or intellectual property has never stopped me from giving a good game a shot. I can separate the two.
I may go incognito, though. No need for me to get my ass virtually kicked by a bunch of Trekkies.
I believe the real fans like to be called Trekkers. But I’m not sure.
If being a real fan means thinking Kirk can do no wrong and ST is better than anything that’s come since, then I’m not a fan either. For me it tends to mean laughing at the Red Shirt and taking a drink every time McCoy says “Dammit Jim I’m a doctor, not an engineer” or Spock says ‘Fascinating.”