Do you find the term "Trekkie" offensive?

dont be offended. you should revel in your so called "nerdiness" lol I DO! if nothing else it means you have a wonderful imagination and intelligence! i hated sports, was in choir and took computer programming too! Long live the nerds! LOL

Hey, how can you be both a nerd who hates sports and a trekkie who goes trekking? LOL Seriously, I think it depends on who says that and how. And how can "nerd" be offensive when some of the richest men in the world are nerds?

I never really gave it thought. The word doesn't phase me. What one word does to one person, may or may not do to another.

I don't think it is offensive, i think it may have been meant to be, but I don't see it that way, I just see it as a word translated to mean "star trek fan" LOL I think that while it was once a label meant to call people a nerd, and or be offensive, like being called a Yankee, and even the song Yankee Doodle were meant to put down Americans during the Revolutionary war period, instead people took pride in being a "yankee"

I've eben into Star Trek since it first came on, and I am of your age group. Back in the day, the high-folutin' snooty Star Trek fans called themselves "Trekkers", because they felt as though they were more involved thatn the fantatical Trekkies. Involved means: writing Star Trek fiction, being involved with the letter movement that swayed the networks to keep Star Trek on the air, and being those who wanted to get a place in the next Star Trek movies. A trekker was a serious Star Trek fan, one who wanted to change the world via Star Trek. Thye felt that they were doing the Star Trek world a bigger service than the Trekkies. I lke the term "Trekker", simply because it does not imply that I am a Fanatic. I'm just a gal who used to write lots of Star Trek fiction (NOT SLASH!) and never filked a day in her life. I'm hooked on the acting, the scenery, the writing, and the characters.

I don't find the term "Trekkie" offensive on the contrary.. I like it and I like to call myself that. ;-) Also I do have no problems if someone calls me that. I'm wondering why you think that it sounds offensive...?

LOL, I like your sense of humor. Well, I think for some the term is fitting, especially those that wear the costumes, and make up to take on the persona of a character - do not miss a convention, and travel great miles and spare no expenses to go. When they live and breathe star trek. Trekkie is appropriate classification. To me it does not equate to nerd, but more like "Groupie"

I think it is probably meant to be offensive, but personally I don't mind.

NO i love the name trekkie it shows im a much higher form of human evolotion lol