any HP/Star Trek fans other than me?

[Melanie Holmes]

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-- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Sternel" <sternel at g...> wrote:
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "chrisnlorrie" 
> <chrisnlorrie at y...> wrote:
> > It seems that I run into Harry Potter fans that are also Star
trek 
> > fans.  Just because I am very curious, are there any ST fans that 
> > are a part of this HPfGU group?  
> > 


Melbaluna here.
    My husband and I just returned from the Ottawa Convention Alley. 
Steve VanderArk 
  (The Lexicon creator,) was the keynote speaker, and also did a
wonderful breakout 
session on Geography and the Wizarding World!  He told us he was an
origional trekkie, 
having put together a compendium of information on the Star Trek
World many years ago. 
He's a great speaker, and pokes fun at how we all are so obsessive
about Harry while 
simultaneously revelling in the compelling details that make it all
so much fun.  He said he 
does tend toward obsessive note taking when he reads. This includes
list making, drawing 
parallels and conclusion, etc. Being a Star Trek fan had some of the
same appeal as HP for 
him, although I'm sure it pales in comparison to the scope of the
wizarding world!










> > I LOVED Next Generation, Deep Space Nine was "okay", and Voyage
and watching the 
'Stratagema' episode of TNG:  hook, line, and 
> sinker.  I am a huge devotee of TNG (There was a time when I knew 
> episode titles, first airing dates, *and* production order...not
sure 
> how many times I read the Compendium, but it's at least 47 =D), and 
> I'm fond of TOS and of DS9, until they killed off Dax.  I watched 
> VOY, but only halfheartedly after the third season or so, I just 
> really never got into it as much.  I really can't stand Enterprise.
 
> I nearly choked on my drink watching the premiere 
> (the 'decontamination' scene pretty much set the tone of the
series, 
> to my mind, and that's not what Trek's about, IMHO) and gave up on 
> the spot. Even Scott Bakula isn't enough to rescue it for me.  
> 
> Incidentally, I'm a member of my campus' sff student union (we are 
> called the Science Fiction Forum, and we help run ICon every year
at 
> SUNY Stony Brook), which attracts fandoms of every shape and size, 
> and it's pretty much universally agreed that Trek is the 'starter' 
> fandom for those of my generation and older.  I'm beginning to see 
> signs that HP is taking over that 'starter' position in the 
> young'uns, which is gladdening to this fangirl's heart.  
> 
> Anyway... ::waves to Alora, and everyone else who's decloaked::  
> Q'uapla!  =)