Comments on: Some Mainstream Media Continue To Misunderstand (and misrepresent) Trek Fans

By: Ugh

Ugh — Sun, 10 May 2009 06:31:40 +0000

I like how “Trekkie’s” where bashed on snl. With even nimoy calling “Trekkie’s” who didn’t see this movie “Dick heads”. Wtf? Im getting tired of seeing hearing this. I saw this on colverfield, I even saw people threatening to kill people if that didn’t like that movie. So people aren’t allowed to have opinions any more? I personal hate cloverfield.

I’m sure fanboy’s will attack me with OMG IT’s just a joke, sure but its still stereotyping people. I haven’t seen Star Trek yet, I never go to ANY new release during the first week. Heck I usally just wait for blu-ray so I guess im a dick head for being a non conformist.

By: 24th Century Rockstar

24th Century Rockstar — Sat, 09 May 2009 22:17:40 +0000

To Anthony: Big props on doing your best to get the word out on these media spinsters, these are the guys that really need to be outed.

Wow gang, gotta raise the double-eyebrow. I’ve been pretty busy out in real life this last week so dropping by to find out that a few desperately cash-hungry main-stream media spinsters are DELIBERATELY trying to find some kind of puppet-trekkie poster boy to slander the efforts and affections of so many for nothing more than to cash in on spinning some good copy is pretty damn insulting (not to mention a mouthful!)

Not to be seething or venomous, but I sincerely hope it all backfires.

My schedule is so booked this weekend that I’m probably not going to get to see the movie until Tuesday or Wednesday :( so I guess we’ll see how this all plays out!

I’m reminded of how many people got their feathers ruffled over the political slant in Steve Daly’s article in Newsweek (now THAT was an interesting thread!). It shouldn’t come as a surprise that we should hear such snazzy words like “zeitgeist” being thrown around by the press in their mad competitive scramble to out sell each other, and it shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise that Star Trek has become the zeitgeist in the here and now – and that opens us all up to a certain amount of exploitation in their attempt to bottle this particular brand of lightning.

I hope that in the coming weeks of press exposure, the fans remember that we aren’t limited to reading and accepting any one particular slant, spin, or agenda some of these people are going to push on us – we CAN hold the author responsible too folks!

Till next time,

- 24thCRS

By: IamNOTspock

IamNOTspock — Sat, 09 May 2009 19:58:44 +0000

In the “When will you see the Star Trek movie” poll, an important category was left out:

Wait for TV [(my estimation = 5%)]

I suspect there would be more (albeit a similar small percentage amongst “Star Trek fans”) who presently think they wouldn’t spend money on it but WOULD watch it on free broadcast … and from there decide on it’s place (or lack there of) in legitimate Star Trek.

By: IamNOTspock

IamNOTspock — Sat, 09 May 2009 19:28:14 +0000

I agree! “Warn” that media about “flaming”!

By: Joyce

Joyce — Sat, 09 May 2009 18:03:49 +0000

Just came from the Star Trek movie and I LOVED IT. But I am SO thankful for this article because I am GUILTY of believing that serious StarTrek fans live in the past (how ironic when sci-fi is so… uhm, what’s the word? uhm…. FUTURISTIC?) and were just a bunch of complainers. So I was wrong. And
this time around it feels GOOD to be wrong. BUt HEY!!! I REALLY believe that the bad press will get more people to watch the film and once they’ve watched it, chance are they are going to LOVE IT!!!

By: Closettrekker

Closettrekker — Sat, 09 May 2009 17:17:51 +0000

96% on the Tomatometer now.

That better than the last 5 Oscar winners for “Best Picture”.

This is surreal.

By: Chadwick

Chadwick — Sat, 09 May 2009 16:17:16 +0000

If those news companies only report a one-sided story and try to ruin the limelight that the new star trek movie is in… god help them. There are only a few trekkies who don’t like the movie, I was waiting in line for 3 hours to see Star Trek in IMAX and it was all trekkies who were dying to see the movie, I got to know a few of them and non of them had hatred towards the movie. If those news companies report false data, there will be a huge uproar and as I said god help them.

By: Anthony Pascale

Anthony Pascale — Sat, 09 May 2009 09:36:22 +0000

Jack
warning for flaming

By: IamNOTspock

IamNOTspock — Sat, 09 May 2009 07:33:02 +0000

The problem with the media is that they are still fuming over the anti-Obama anti-Democrats anti-tax-&-spend “Tea Parties” and their rage is spilling over on anything they report. Forget them — with their low ratings, they’re only a storm in a tea cup (pun intended). :)

By: Charles

Charles — Sat, 09 May 2009 04:10:52 +0000

So your innocence is broken. Only now you learn that the mainstream media does not report the news. They make it up. They “know” what the story should be. And then they get out there and find a source to say what they want the “source” to say.

So sad you didn’t know that before.