http://slashdot.org, by Jon Katz,

"'Trekkies,' a new documentary that's quirky, fun, as pure and unheralded as the other one is deafening and over-hyped. ... This movie is a love letter to the people who have supported the TV show and movies and who flock to the countless Star Trek conventions every single weekend in America and much of the rest of the world. ... By and large, the trekkies in "Trekkies" are good hearted and appealing, even the dentist in Florida who wears a Starship uniform and decorated his office to look like a Federation warship, and whose sometimes rattled patients look up to see the Enterprise hovering about the dental chair. Some, like the Arkansas woman who wears her uniform everywhere and insists that her co-workers call her "Commander," raise the question of what a life is and who does or doesn't have one. Others, like the astonishingly articulate teenager from Bakersfield, California, who drives to conventions every weekend with his Dad in a "Roddenberry" cruiser (named for Gene, of course, the show's late creator), or the rotund woman who hosts "Talk Trek and Beyond" ? beamed from Sunland, Calif., to 2.5 million listeners ? make it clear that they do have lives, but "Star Trek" is mostly it. This is the right movie at the perfect time. It reminds us just how odd and unpredictable American culture is, especially when it intersects with technology, sci-fi and the screen. ... If you're like me, and needed a bit of distance between the publicity blitz and experience of seeing The Movie, catch "Trekkies." It's a sweetly unassuming film with a production budget of roughly $19.98, no marketing tie-in of any sort, nor a single special effect ? that can still warm your heart."