Word: treks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first I thought it was cool to be with upperclassmen," said Dave A. Tortorella '00, who stayed with juniors in the Quad last year. "But I felt distanced from prefrosh activities. A lot of the prefrosh were hanging out in the Square, and it was a huge trek for me to go back to my room every night...
...cult's work space in Rancho Santa Fe was decorated with posters of alien beings from The X-Files and E.T. On the farewell tape, a cultist even brings up Nichols' oeuvre in explaining his decision to leave behind his human "container": "We watch a lot of Star Trek, a lot of Star Wars, it's just, to us, it's just like going on a holodeck. We've been training on a holodeck...[and] now it's time to stop. The game's over. It's time to put into practice what we've learned. We take...
...been traveling the country proselytizing, informing curious listeners that they were not seeking money, only recruits. Michael Upledger, a reporter for a Tampa, Florida, weekly newspaper, interviewed five cult members in 1994. "Their one vice was science fiction," he recalls. "They loved The X-Files, and they loved Star Trek: The Next Generation. It was the only time they really brightened up and came alive. They just lit up. We had a long conversation about which Star Trek was better, the old one or the new." As recently as 1994, members went on a recruiting drive in New Hampshire, warning...
...ways, Americans are suffering a crisis of faith. Some people have lost their faith, so they dip into sleaze news, snickering as they scan the more imaginative tabloids. Others have replaced belief in God or government by faith in more eccentric notions; they look to the stars, to Star Trek. According to polls, 40% think aliens have visited our planet; 70% believe in a J.F.K. assassination conspiracy. Hey, didn't a U.S. missile shoot down TWA Flight 800? In January, you know, Elvis turned 62. Just recently, he cashed his first Social Security check...
...cult members made news by dying, but they also used the pop culture that shaped them. They testified to their love of The X-Files and Star Wars; counted in their number a brother of Star Trek's Lieutenant Uhura (herself a flack for a psychic hotline); spoke of their imminent voyage in gentle, repetitive sentences, like Mister Rogers explaining electricity to his TV toddlers...