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Average Millennial/Gen Z/Gen Alpha Trekkie Experience at the Con (thelemmy.club)
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Based on my experiences meeting other Trekkies at Phoenix Fan Fusion and Tuscon Comic Con.

Like, once you get past this part, most of the original Trekkies are fun to talk to, but combined with that subset of gen X TNG guys who talk about their college years and give you unsolicited life advice while probably a bit inebriated, you probably lose an hour at whatever convention to hearing this same flex over and over again. lol

Also, yes, at Fan Fusion I found out Gen Alpha Trekkies do exist; saw one wearing a DS9 uniform commenting at a panel.

The oldest Trekkies (depicted as Scotty in TNG:"Relics") algorithmically say to young Trekkies (represented as Geordi La Forge) at conventions, "I watched TOS as a wee lad in the 60s on a black and white television. Do you youngins know who Spock is?"
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[–] 2 points 3 days ago*

I watched TNG on horrible VHS tapes of late night airings, as that’s all I had available

You have no idea how much time people spend trying to get that aesthetic experience these days.

EDIT : "No way dude, it has the 2am infomercials instead of just cutting to black for 2 seconds ! excellent! so retro!" , "yeah, AND it has the noise patterns, so authentic"

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