Of course, I’m also too old, tired, and lazy to bother to do much in the way of original research. I’m too old, tired, and lazy to keep track of the current evolution of Trekdom, but the question of how it first began still intrigues me. You know me, I’m always interested in beginnings. Who knows? Perhaps the new generation will succumb and Trekdom will escape its ‘nostalgia’ label and become fresh and exciting once again. Now an attempt to renew the popularity of the film franchise appears to be working. Nevertheless, awareness of both the show and its fans persisted among the population at large. Trek clubs pretty much died off everywhere. In time, interest among fans waned it became something your parents were fond of and therefore kind of taboo, apart from a certain “so old-fashioned and dumb it’s good” factor. In its day Star Trek transcended the boundaries of mere fandom and became a popular culture icon as legitimate as Elvis or Andy Warhol.
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