Trekkie noun a devoted fan of StarTrek, the original science fiction television programme (which started in 1966) and subsequent films and spin-offs US
— Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CHCampusSlang, p. 4, April 1978
Those Star Trek conventions should be outlawed and all Trekkies sterilized. — Howard Stern, MissAmerica, p. 256, 1995
The message to all Trekkies is that it’s not real, it’s only a movie. Please beam them up. — Alon Shulman, TheStyleBible, p. 252, 1999