Trekdom

Trekdom

English

Etymology

From Trek +‎ -dom.

Noun

Trekdom (uncountable)

1. (fandom slang) The fandom of the Star Trek science-fiction franchise.
   • 1983, Theodore Sturgeon, "Introduction", in Sonni Cooper, Black Fire, unnumbered page:

     She is so involved in Trekdom that she can pick up the phone just once and contact I don't how many meticulously organized Star Trek fandoms.

   • 2009, Yonassan Gershom, Jewish Themes in Star Trek, page 100:

     As is well known in Trekdom, the early Klingons were a thinly veiled metaphor for the Soviet Union.

   • 2013, Jacqueline Lichtenberg, "Recollections of a Collating Party", in Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World (ed. Anne Jamison), page 92:

     She was cataloguing my collection of Trek zines because it contained items she hadn't heard of elsewhere, a real treasure trove of Trekdom.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Trekdom.

Synonyms

• Trekfandom