This film gently pokes fun at the Trekkies magnificent humanity.
The film showed trekkies as obsessive fans but also portrayed them as people hopping for a better future and Star Trek has provided them with a vision for doing this. They see a world without racial or gender discrimination. They accept each and every human on this planet as a unique and justifiable entity without a hint of stereotyping - the irony is that the rest of us cant see trekkies in the same light and we stereotype these fans (obsessives)as sad and lonely. I am particularly guilty of this.
Some of the fans were a real inspiration, they seemed accutely aware of what people think of them when they go about their daily business dressed in Star Trek uniforms but really didn't care. They didn't see themselves as the problem - the problem was with the finger-pointers - as anything remotly outside social conventions was pervceived as a perverse, strange and abnormal.
This movie is a brillianty observed piece of social commentary and could really have been made about soccer fans, baseball fans, Beatles fans, Nirvana fans, Hip-Hop fans, Goths, Ravers..... just about anybody in the western world.
The film showed trekkies as obsessive fans but also portrayed them as people hopping for a better future and Star Trek has provided them with a vision for doing this. They see a world without racial or gender discrimination. They accept each and every human on this planet as a unique and justifiable entity without a hint of stereotyping - the irony is that the rest of us cant see trekkies in the same light and we stereotype these fans (obsessives)as sad and lonely. I am particularly guilty of this.
Some of the fans were a real inspiration, they seemed accutely aware of what people think of them when they go about their daily business dressed in Star Trek uniforms but really didn't care. They didn't see themselves as the problem - the problem was with the finger-pointers - as anything remotly outside social conventions was pervceived as a perverse, strange and abnormal.
This movie is a brillianty observed piece of social commentary and could really have been made about soccer fans, baseball fans, Beatles fans, Nirvana fans, Hip-Hop fans, Goths, Ravers..... just about anybody in the western world.