Techies and Trekkies Unite!

emmetropia writes: "Startrek.com has announced that there is going going to be an Online Convention in early August. Every attendee will be able to make themselves look like any of your favorite ST species, Borg, Klingon, Vulcan, Terran, Ferengi, etc etc. The servers for the event are supposed to be able to handle up to 100,000 users, which would mean a rather large convention, let's just hope it doesn't suffer the same fate as Final Fantasy. With full 3D conventions here now, can a holodeck really be that far off?"

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No info on the site

[Triskaidekaphobia]

Are any of the "real" characters going to be there virtually? And, if so, how does one know whether one is chatting up the real Beverley or an imposter?

Re:techies and trekkies together???

[Thenomain]

My mother (and doesn't this just tag me as a generational geek) has been a Trekkie since the original series originally aired. (She was also a ballerina and beatnik, two nontechie professions.)

And yet, even to this very day, she has problems programming the VCR or understanding that wacky "folders" concept on computer GUIs.

Star Trek was originally more about social commentary (a brightly coloured version of the Twilight Zone) than about science. I always got the impression that Star Trek was originally sci-fi almost by accident, just to be different for television.