For someone who has never cared about Star Trek, its fans can seem exotic. Maybe laughable in their obsessions. The infamous 1986 Saturday Night Live “Get a Life” sketch, written by then-unknowns Bob Odenkirk and Judd Apatow and featuring a fan-mocking William Shatner, angered true Trekkers but was hilarious to the rest of the audience. A decade later, …
The Fandom Film Legacy Of ‘Trekkies’
The 1997 documentary pioneered a whole nonfiction genre.
