Some Say Many Child Molesters Are "Trekkies"

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"Star Trek" fans get no respect. When they're not being derided for living in their mothers' basements, they're being mocked for studying the Klingon alphabet. Life for Trekkies is especially tough these days, with their television franchise finally fading into retirement after decades of spin-off series and film adaptations.

And now this. An April 27 Los Angeles Times story on the exploits of the Toronto Police Service's Sex Crimes Unit reported on "a dark fact" uncovered by its Child Exploitation Section: "All but one of the offenders they have arrested in the last four years," the article revealed, "was a hard-core Trekkie."

Wha ... who ... huh? I know that the Vulcan mating ritual of Pon Farr can arouse some unruly passions, but hey. Kiddie porn? Child exploitation among those benign nerds who flock to comic conventions in their Federation uniforms? Say it isn't so. Or at least present plausible evidence why it is.

"It has something to do with a fantasy world where mutants and monsters have power and where the usual rules don't apply," suggested Toronto Detective Constable Warren Bulmer, donning a confiscated Klingon sash for his interview. "But beyond that, I can't really explain it."

Yeah, right. Color me skeptical, but I require a little more to sell me on the "dark fact" that "all but one of the offenders they have arrested in the last four years was a hard-core Trekkie." If there's empirical evidence, trot it out. (Hard-core Trekkie membership cards? Salacious action figure dioramas? What?) If there's a causal relationship, at least try to explain it. If you "can't really explain it," don't bring it up. Geeks get enough grief as it is, man; they don't need to be labeled perverts.

Unfortunately, my attempt at Earth logic will probably go unheeded. The Trekkie!perv! train has left the station. Last week, Macleans magazine followed up with its own report on the connection between child porn and "Star Trek." The article's opening sentence is priceless: "The first thing detectives from the Toronto police sex crimes unit saw when they entered Roderick Cowan's apartment was an autographed picture of William Shatner." Yow! Now, even I'll admit that is perverse. According to Macleans' Jonathon Gatehouse, other suspects possessed pictures of themselves in Federation uniform, remote controls shaped like phasers, "Star Trek" credit cards and Trek-inspired screen names. "We always say there are two types of pedophiles: 'Star Trek' and 'Star Wars,' " Detective Ian Lamond told Gatehouse. "But it's mostly 'Star Trek.' "

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[Coventina]

1. Good lord! Now we have to ban "Star Trek" also!!!

[Modem Butterfly]

2. That's it! We need to ban all Trekkies! It's for the children!

We should ban Trekkers too. You know they're just ticking timebombs waiting to go off on their owners.

NO KILL I!

[billyskank]

5. Set phasers to 'kill,' captain?

:D

[Coventina]

6. LOL! Good reference!

:thumbsup:

:D

[Modem Butterfly]

11. Great minds think alike!

:)

[billyskank]

3. Anyway

Real geeks like Babylon 5. Don't see any mention of that... ;)

[XanaDUer]

4. I thought they were usually Republicans?

:shrug:

[caty]

20. Me too!!

Could this be repuk propaganda?????:freak:

[supernova]

7. Don't know whether to laugh or cry

Logically, it might be that a good percentage of Trekkers are pedophiles.

HOWEVER,

It does not follow that, most trekkers are pedophiles.

[MadHound]

8. Wow, color me suprised!

They're trying to pin child molestation on Trekkers now? Damn, I thought they would go after the D&D freaks with that particular label. After all, we D&D players consort with demons and participate in witchcraft, and perform human sacrifice. What's a little child molestation:eyes:

This is just more bullshit to marginalize a certain group of people. It seems to me, at least lately, that the biggest people into child molestation of the Republicans and religious right. I don't have any empirical evidence to back that up, I'm just saying:shrug:

[realisticphish]

12. have you ever heard/seen

the "Dungeons and Dragons" skit by the dead alewives society?

an expose about D and D, a "journey into the bowels of El Diablo"

"where are the cheetos! can I have some mountain dew?"

"i wanna cast... MAGIC MISSLE!"
"theres nothing to attack"
"i...attack the darkness!"

"are there any girls there?"
"what?"
"if there are girls there, i want to do them!"

[MadHound]

14. No, haven't seen that one,

Sounds funny though.

[realisticphish]

15. oh god, find it

it is hilarious, especially when one has played D and D...

[Salviati]

9. On the topic of Star Trek and porn...

An acquantance of mine admitted somewhat secretively that he had quite a large stash of DS9 on tape, and in order to keep the possesion of said tapes under wraps, he hid his DS9 collection under his porn.

It gets funnier every time I think about it.

:rofl:

[supernova]

13. More ashamed of his DS9 fixation

than his porn fixation? :D

[Cannikin]

10. Damn...now I REALLY have to go in the closet with my trekkiness

[xmas74]

24. You too?

This really sucks. Next thing you know they will ban me from the PTO.

[aden_nak]

16. Translation: "Kiddie Porn on the internet is downloaded by geeks."

Correlary: "All geeks like Star Wars and Star Trek"
Conculision: "All pedophiles are Star Trek fans."

[booley]

17. why does this sound familiar?

Oh yeah! Becuase the authorities do this al the time to every group that seems weird or "out there"..

Remeber when D&D made people worship Satan, commit suidcide and kill people?

or how about the Indepedence, Missouir Sheriff that hinted at roving bands of serial killing goths? i think they had ot return th ehundred thousand they got to "investigate" that.

Or my favorite, that cult in florida that "proved" that people who play Vampire LARP are all bloodthirsty psychopaths waiting to happen?

Gee, and there were Gay people, Black people, Jews, Now Muslims...

it's almost like on of those Mad Libs books..but for Bigots and the State. same script. Just Insert Noun (misunderstood group) in blank.

[Lannes]

18. Ever see "mazes and monster"?

Its an early film of Tom Hanks where he plays a student that loses his grip on reality after playing a "dungeons and dragons" type game.Wasnt very good though.

[hyphenate]

21. I was thinking of that one!

It was so damned stupid. I was a gamer back then, and it was so ludicrous that I just wanted to smash my fist into the TV by the time the movie ended. It was written by Rona Jaffe.

[Salviati]

23. "I am Pardeau, a holy man"

so bad it's funny, especially because it's Tom Hanks...

[RandomKoolzip]

19. Wow! Two kinds of people I find utterly loathsome!

Who knew there was a cause and effect relationship there?!

[Divameow77]

22. I think it's funny, the trekkie part not the child molestation part

I always tease my mom and her friends abotu being trekkies. I think she even knows people that were in the movie Trekkies.

[LeftyMom]

25. Wow, I'm sick

I have City on the Edge of Forever and The Trouble with Tribbles on my TiVo. I have some signed photos I won in a contest too. Be afraid.

[Der Blaue Engel]

26. OMG...I have the same eps on MY TiVo!

We are apparently part of a wretched hive of scum and villainy...no, wait...that's the other kind.

[LeftyMom]

27. oh no. I have that disfunction too.

and my son is involved. Just think of the damage the light saber battles have done him, to say nothing of the action figures!

Holy shit, he's actually watching Empire right now (really, Wedge just took out an ATAT with that cable around the legs maneuver,) blissfully unaware that he's going to need therapy for years to get over it.

[Der Blaue Engel]

28. I just watched episodes IV-VI

yesterday. :thumbsup:

And my son is involved, too...probably at home playing Knights of the Old Republic on his Xbox as we speak.

[LeftyMom]

29. LeftyKid wants an Xbox for Lego Star Wars

Should I just turn myself in now?