Reply #33: Trekkies, by far:

[Deja Q]

My vote still goes to trekkies. Nobody speaks Gallifreyan, Dalekese, Cyberish, or anything else.

The worst thing some of us do is go around in a mock-up of Tom Baker's outfit (or, far worse, Sylvester McCoy's). While a few build their own Daleks, when you go to a WHO convention, you do not see 5,000 Daleks mixed in with 10,000 fairly normal people. At a trek convention, however, you DO have 5,000 klingons... 2000 vulcans... 500 romulans... 8000 federation folks... That's why news media avoids WHO conventions. There are far fewer obsessed freaks to make the whole group of people look the same way. By comparison, the news media barely needs to even try with the trek lot!

WHO actors sign autographs for free. Trek actors charge you an arm, a leg, and precious little else. (certainly not one's firstborn because, let's face it, how many trekkies end up having children - or even getting a date?)

British actors often complain about the rules and regs of American tv creation ("Chef!" and "Red Dwarf V" DVD documentaties having the actors saying some eye-opening stuff I could never even imagine. Since when have you heard an American actor whine about how British programs are made? (none. American actors are generally so snotty they won't step outside their precious pompous union! Tom "I get 20 million for saying 'Cool' on screen" Cruise surely would not. The Brits pay their actors reasonable sums of money. Actually that's not entirely true. Patrick Stewart, having seen Red Dward VI when in England, was about to sue the Grant Naylor production company thinking that Red Dwarf was a ripoff of Star Trek... what a fool! Of course, I don't think Stewart is a natural born yank even though he lives here and gets 8 million for saying "Make it so" on screen...)