Easy, LC...
I'm not calling YOU creepy...
I just said what kind of impression I , as a non-viewer, have gotten from the extreme Trekkies...
I geek around somewhat myself...
I did D&D... I still read X-Men and other comics...
I've had discussions about what was so terribly wrong on so many levels with the new SW movies...
I well and truly love LOTR, both the movies and the book...
BUT:
Knowing a few words in Klingon or elvish, thats one thing... (I don't know elvish from Russian, BTW)
Knowing the entire fucking language fluently... creepy...
Being able to sit down, and understand all the pop-cultural references on SIT, thats one thing...
Knowing them by heart... creepy... And I'm pretty sure the boys in Maiden would agree...
There is a line, and I think you agree, between FAN and FANATIC...
Another example is a pal of mine.
Works as a bartender at the local watering hole. great guy.
He himself considers himself a FANATICAL Liverpool fan, and he's honest about it...
Liverpool is BIG in this small town I live in...
There are many FANS...
But only one FANATIC...
The rest of the fans, all who are great friends of his, also consider him a fanatic...
(I've consciously, deliberately and purposefully avoided all talks soccer-related, especially with him, so I can't tell you what it's all about, this knowledge of his, but he know all things Liverpool...)
There is a line, and more often than not, it's pretty easy to spot...
I know the lyrics of a lot of Maiden songs, but not ALL of them...
I'm know the difference between Yoda and Obi wan, but not Stormtrooper #413 and #431...
and so on and so forth...
My basic point is the simple difference between judging a book by its cover, judging it by it content, and
memorizing the maiden names of every single background character that only appear in one single paragraph...
(as I've been writing these last posts, there have been 5-6 Star Trek trailers on TV, and it does look good...)
Now, this post got very long, so as a thank for your patient read-trough, I've left a toy surprise behind the spoiler tag...