Why didn't the fans in the bathroom fight back with retorts and retaliation?
You dont really understand the concept of "being a nerd and thus not being a bully" - right ?
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Ask Shatner why nobody stood up for him when this actual thing happened to him?
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I was waiting for Nesmith to step out of the stall and give them a, "Say that again?" look, silently challenging them to say that garbage to his face. Those bozos came across as the kind of people who would run if something like that happened.
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That's not entirely true. Leelee Sobieski (I think that how it was spelled?) was ushering in a "geek-chic" style at around this time, or at least trying to. Granted it wasn't comic books and sci-fi, but she tended to promote intellectualism over athleticism/beauty, and that was a step in the right direction. Keep in mind that Lord of the Rings would come out two years after this to resounding success, which is just as nerdy as Star Trek. Nerd culture becoming mainstream didn't happen overnight.

That's easy to say NOW. Back then, nerds and nerd culture were still shat upon by the mainstream public, and "nerds" were still very much at risk of getting their asses kicked just for liking what they liked. Geek-chic didn't hit until about ten years after this movie was made.
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ya'all don't really remember what things were like back in the day, huh?

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Pretty damn close, actually. Shatner has talked about it and how it made him reevaluate how he approaches cons and fans of the show.
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Yeah, that scene happened exactly like that in a real life situationderp

Except that it actually happened in real life, so You're wrong.
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That scene always bugs me. It is very poorly written and staged.

Hey look! It's "That Guy"!!
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I'm an St fan but I don't like Shatner. I guess it's no different than being an St fan but hating every St post TOS. Or being an St Fan but hating DS9, VOY, or ENT. And let's not forget, being an ST fan but hating the new ST films.
A lot of ST fans don't like all of ST much less all the actors on ST.
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I always assumed they weren't attendees but rather people working at the convention center.

Don't feed the trolls.

Yep, they sure do. Trolls are everywhere.

Apparently conventions always have people who turn up to ridicule the stars.
Its that man again!!

There are people who just go to ridicule or maybe tag along with a friend just to make fun. They must be bored.

What I thought was, what the hell are those jerks even doing at the convention if they ridicule the actors of the show??

That scene is apparently a reference to a real-life event that happened to William Shatner at a convention, where he overhead "fans" deriding him and his fellow actors as "has beens".

I was wondering that too.

THIS!