Subculture of Trekkies

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This paper describes the origins of the "trekkie" movement, the fan devotion and loyalty the series has generated and the common element that all "Star Trek" fans seem to share in spite of coming from diverse backgrounds.

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"Type Marilyn Monroe into Google search engine and up pops roughly 2, 600,000 web sites. Type in "M.A.S.H.", a television series that was on the air for some eleven years and up pops approximately the same number of sites. Type in "Star Trek" and up pops approximately 10,000,000 web sites, three times more than for Marilyn or M.A.S.h. Type in "Star Trek" fans and an estimated 919,000 sites pop up. That is truly an incredible number of web sites devoted to a television program that originally ran for only three years, 1966 through 1969 (StarTrek pp). Moreover, there are several thousand listings on Amazon.com for a myriad of products, including books, music, videos, computer games, toys, tools, housewares, jewelry, cell phones and clothing apparel (Amazon pp). "Star Trek" has spawned numerous movies and spin-off television series, including "Deep Space Nine", "Voyager" and "Archer's Boat", as well as global conventions of "Star Trek" fans, which has inspired several documentaries. Over the decades, "Star Trek" has spawned a sub-culture of fans who proudly call themselves Trekkies."

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