At 11:16 AM 7/6/2006, JR wrote:
Dave,
>From what I understand, Star Trek fandom actually grew too big for
the regular science fiction conventions and started staging their
own. I believe the only reason you didn't see any at the convention
you went to is that they no longer bother with regular science
fiction conventions and focus on their own. As far as I know that
particular fandom is still going strong (but I don't want to get
close enough to know for sure... :)
-- JR
JR. this is only partially true
the first (actual) trek con took place in NYC in 1970. It was run by
a named Joe (?) Shuster and was a pretty wild show as mentioned in my
previous email. He ran one more in 1971 & 1972 when a publishing
business he was in bankrupted him and he couldn't do the show in
1973. By this time Creation conventions had been running comic book
shows for a few years (Adam Malin & Gary Berman started running shows
at 15!) and sometime during the middle 70's they ran one focused on
Trek which did very well for them. They continued running the
combination comic/media shows for a few more years and about 1978-79
they split the shows off (comic people didn't like Trekkies - they
never spent any $$$$ and were pretty much major dorks). From about
1985 on, Creation has run pretty much just Trek shows and I believe
they have one here in Vegas every year, but they almost never do any
ads, so by the time I hear about them - they're over
Rich=================
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