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Originally Posted by crich70
I remember hearing about an interview that Leonard Nimoy gave someone yrs back where the writer used the term SciFi and Mr. Nimoy took some heat for it from some fans so it's not too unbelievable that some people are easily irritated. What I don't like myself is the ScyFy (I think I've spelled it right) that they show on the Science Fiction channel now days. It's plain sloppy spelling I think, and not at all attractive.
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It gets more convoluted in Star Trek fan circles, where I believe the preferred descriptor is Trekker, as "Trekkie" connotes all that has been caricatured about Trek fans in mass media.
And the Syfy rebranding is deliberate and not sloppy spelling. It happened in part because they couldn't trademark "SciFi".
There was a lot of "What were they
thinking?" in SF fan circles about it, and while they've gone through a whole branding exercise, what the brand stands for is still a good question.
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Dennis