I`m a DOCTOR WHO fan and being a DOCTOR WHO fan often means making negative and sometimes downright nasty comments on least liked eras of the show . I hate the era of the mid to late 1980s and quite happily boot the boot into the series made between 1985-89 . In short being a fan of the show is like being a football supporter who spends his weekends at matches shouting for the manager to be sacked . There , that`s what it`s like to be a DOCTOR WHO fan . What we don`t do is dress up as Sontaran battle fleet commanders , or learn the Sea Devil dialect , and under no circumstances do we wish to be tarred with the same brush as STAR TREK fans . Why ? Well watch TREKKIES to find out what I mean .
TREKKIES was produced as a documentary but it turned out to be the biggest unintentional laugh-fest I`ve ever seen . Are we expected to swallow that STAR TREK fans are normal intelligent people ? Okay then let`s take a look at these normal intelligent people ......
The first person to be interviewed is a transvestite trekkie , and seeing as he/she is only filmed in extreme close up I`m just curious as to what he/she was wearing at the time . I`ve got a suspicion he/she was wearing one of these sexy little mini dresses from the original show . I hope he/she shaved her/his legs
The dentist whose wife and children are dressed in ST uniforms and whose dental surgery is decked out as a ST shrine called " The Starship Dentalprise "
The Greenstiens who spend every day dressed in their USS Enterprise uniforms and who don`t have any children ( Did anyone faint in surprise upon knowing this ? ) but have a poodle also dressed up in a ST uniform . It goes without saying it`s the dog I feel sorry for
A bunch of people dressed as Klingons order their lunch in a klingon dialect. The voice over informs us they do a lot of " community service " ( Probably a euphamism for work fare - Would you give them a job ? ) and that they " Visit sick children in hospital " . I`ve got to confess that if I had a child in hospital I`d want them to meet klingons as much as I`d want them to meet Victor Salva or Michael Jackson
The James Doohan anecdote of the suicidal fan . This isn`t as heartwarming as has been made out . In fact when Scotty finishes with the line " She wasn`t getting the help she needed " I shouted out " None of the people I`ve seen so far are getting the help they need " .
This brings me to the saddest fan of the lot who is the lad who owned Captain Pike`s life support/travel machine which resembles a headless Dalek. The fan turns up at an electrical store to buy some batteries and stuff only to get a weird reaction from the store worker who eyes dart from right to left very suspiciously and who has a " WTF " expression plastered all over his face . The reason for this attitude is explained when the fan leaves the store in the same transport he arrived in , yes that`s right he came in the Captain Pike life support /transport machine and now drives off at 2 mph with his gormless face sticking out of the transporter .
I can`t wait to see TREKKIES 2
TREKKIES was produced as a documentary but it turned out to be the biggest unintentional laugh-fest I`ve ever seen . Are we expected to swallow that STAR TREK fans are normal intelligent people ? Okay then let`s take a look at these normal intelligent people ......
The first person to be interviewed is a transvestite trekkie , and seeing as he/she is only filmed in extreme close up I`m just curious as to what he/she was wearing at the time . I`ve got a suspicion he/she was wearing one of these sexy little mini dresses from the original show . I hope he/she shaved her/his legs
The dentist whose wife and children are dressed in ST uniforms and whose dental surgery is decked out as a ST shrine called " The Starship Dentalprise "
The Greenstiens who spend every day dressed in their USS Enterprise uniforms and who don`t have any children ( Did anyone faint in surprise upon knowing this ? ) but have a poodle also dressed up in a ST uniform . It goes without saying it`s the dog I feel sorry for
A bunch of people dressed as Klingons order their lunch in a klingon dialect. The voice over informs us they do a lot of " community service " ( Probably a euphamism for work fare - Would you give them a job ? ) and that they " Visit sick children in hospital " . I`ve got to confess that if I had a child in hospital I`d want them to meet klingons as much as I`d want them to meet Victor Salva or Michael Jackson
The James Doohan anecdote of the suicidal fan . This isn`t as heartwarming as has been made out . In fact when Scotty finishes with the line " She wasn`t getting the help she needed " I shouted out " None of the people I`ve seen so far are getting the help they need " .
This brings me to the saddest fan of the lot who is the lad who owned Captain Pike`s life support/travel machine which resembles a headless Dalek. The fan turns up at an electrical store to buy some batteries and stuff only to get a weird reaction from the store worker who eyes dart from right to left very suspiciously and who has a " WTF " expression plastered all over his face . The reason for this attitude is explained when the fan leaves the store in the same transport he arrived in , yes that`s right he came in the Captain Pike life support /transport machine and now drives off at 2 mph with his gormless face sticking out of the transporter .
I can`t wait to see TREKKIES 2