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Old 16-June-2008, 10:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Doodler View Post
Personally, I'd say to hell with the old fans. Let'em sell their costumes and fake ears, then face the Sun outside of their parents' basement for the first time in years. Rejuvenate the franchise entirely with a new generation of fans without the psychological baggage.
Your prejudicial, stereotyping disdain for Star Trek fans is too common in the general population for there to be a new generation of fans. People think of that image as what it is to be a Star Trek fan, and don't want to be like that or be involved in anything that they'd have to keep secret in order to avoid being thought of as such, so they will not be Star Trek fans. And nothing about the new movie, and nothing that the movie's makers could ever do or say, will ever change their minds.

Just a couple of days ago, a friend of mine told me about a woman he knew who would ask a guy several questions before dating him, and one of them was the name of the captain of the Enterprise. If you could answer at all, you were disqualified. And that wasn't even surprising; it's normal. In a population with so many bigots like her and you in it, the makers of a new Star Trek movie can't afford to discard the established Star Trek fans as you suggest, because that would leave them with nobody.
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