Trekdom

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English

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Etymology

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From Trek +‎ -dom.

Noun

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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 Anne Jamison, editor, Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World, 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.

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