Trekkie
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Full disclosure, I am not a Trekkie, Trekker or any iteration.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 10, 2022
And in a 2019 interview with The New York Times, the self-described Trekkie revealed she's a huge fan of the "Star Trek: Voyager" episode "Shattered" and its leading lady, Kate Mulgrew's Captain Janeway.
From Salon ● Mar. 18, 2022
Trekkie parents will be amused by the gift even as a baby smothers it with Martian-red pasta sauce or alien-green avocado.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2021
Stacey Abrams is an avowed Trekkie, and the Massachusetts congresswoman Ayanna Pressley is described by her friend Aisha Francis, the scholar and activist, as the consummate Blerd.
From New York Times ● Mar. 24, 2021
Expecting some eager, socially awkward adolescent, Nichols instead found herself face-to-face with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: King was a Trekkie!
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
Among Trekkies, the long-lost first starship model had attained a mythical status.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2024
Of course, the television show “Star Trek: The Next Generation” was a massive hit with sci-fi fans and Trekkies back in the 1990s, and the natural extension was taking the main cast — Lt.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 13, 2023
Anti-Stratfordians also offer what is, in effect, a shared-world fandom, like that among Trekkies or Baker Street Irregulars.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 21, 2023
“Autism was this thing that happened to little white boys, and sometimes those little white boys grew up to be Trekkies or Silicon Valley programmers,” Dr. Onaiwu said.
From New York Times ● Apr. 10, 2023
Nevertheless, I'd posit "Strange New Worlds" is giving Trekkies what they need in 2022, updating Roddenberry's meliorism with a bracing dose of realism, and serving it in a highly devourable form.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2022
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