Ellen Ladowsky: Pedophilia and Star Trek — This is an eye-roller. What’s missed in this essay is whether this actually relates to the early or later Star Treks where there is lots of vinyl costumes. It’s never addressed.
By the way, I personally think the connection is a total crock and would like to see better documentation than anecdotes from the Toronto police who could be pulling the reporters leg.
That said, some of the people in the documentary Trekkies are pretty creepy.
The LA Times recently ran a story about the Child Exploitation Section of the Toronto Sex Crimes Unit, which contained a mind-boggling statistic: of the more than 100 offenders the unit has arrested over the last four years, “all but one” has been “a hard-core Trekkie.” Blogger Ernest Miller thought this claim was improbable. “I could go to a science fiction convention,” he explained “and be less likely to find that 99 percent of the attendees were hard-core Trekkies.” While there may be quibbling about the exact numbers, the Toronto detectives claim that the connection is undeniable.
In fact,
Star Trek paraphernalia has so routinely been found at the homes of the pedophiles they’ve arrested that it has become a gruesome joke in the squad room. (On the wall, there is a Star Trek poster with the detectives’ faces replacing those of the crew members). This does not mean that watching Star Trek makes you a pedophile. It does mean that if you’re a pedophile, odds are you’ve watched a lot of Star Trek.This is not the first time Star Trek has been linked to bizarre sexual practices. Those involved in the Heaven’s Gate mass suicides in Rancho Sante Fe in March 1997 also purported themselves to be avid Star Trek fans. One may recall that the cult forced its members to wear unisex clothing, had a strict policy of celibacy, a ban on all sexual thoughts, and eight of the members had surgically castrated themselves.
spotted by D. Drews
One of the heaven gates victims was the estranged brother of Nichelle Nichols which played Uhura in the series and films. I’m sure in most convicted pedophile homes you find cooking pots, but that doesn’t make all cooks abusers. Too many of these stupid CSI type shows on TV. Everyone thinks they’re an investigator.
1. Canada does not pursue personal use of marijuana
2. I bet the detectives involved had the munchies the entire time
3. This level of skilled reporting is why blogs are becoming successful news outlets.
The reason for all this is that in the Federation there are all sorts of different species running around, and some of them look like earth children, but have a real perverted life view (compared to the Christian Right, maybe) and enjoy immensely kadoodling with earth people, gender not really relevant. It’s simply probably that most pedophiles are confused space aliens. Even so, when on earth they should conform to our views (Christian Right?) and if they diddle the kids they should be promptly punished. Send’em to prison, let them be Bubba’s bitch, hell, they may even like it.
This clearly proves the well-known assertion that 77.4% of statistics are made up on the spot. user0@pclabstest.com
Amen! Besides it wouldn’t be the first open minded show that conservatives attack since respect to other POVs are usually seen as demonic among hard core conservatives.
Makes you wonder about the whole Tribble thing, doesn’t it? Could Tribbles be a take off on gerbils? Hmmm.
I agree with John… this is total crock.
More likely is that pedophiles commonly enjoy childish past times like video games, 60s reruns, cartoons, comic books, etc.
But even that would be less than 100%. But I can imagine how cops might pick up on the Star Trek connection and make fun of it. I’m guessing that most cops aren’t great at statistics, though.