A puzzle

Satellite 2 is tomorrow. http://www.satellite2.org.uk/?page=home I'm looking forward to it but I have come up against a puzzling response from a Star Trek fan who said that they had read up on last year's event (I assume they mean Satellite 1 - two years ago), that it looked far too serious for them and that it was more for people heavily into the space programe and the serious science writers. They said it didn't appear to be like cons they had previously been to and so wouldn't be going.

Huh?

How do you get around a misconception like that? I know that when I began going to conventions there appeared to be more of a bias against Star Trek fans attending general SF cons. That sort of attitude made me more determined to keep turning up, in costume (see icon), with Tribbles, out of sheer bloodymindedness. I recall certain booksellers telling me to keep it up, that some people were taken aback that here was a Star Trek fan who read books (and not just Star Trek ones) and who could converse intelligently! That attitude seems to have largely gone away (correct me if I'm wrong) and yet I'm still finding Star Trek fans and Dr Who fans who feel they can't go to general SF cons.

I believe we still have a sizeable fan base in the Glasgow area. We used to have 500+ regulars who would attend the Away Team sessions in Glasgow. Where have they gone? How do we get them to return?

A puzzle

Satellite 2 is tomorrow. http://www.satellite2.org.uk/?page=home I'm looking forward to it but I have come up against a puzzling response from a Star Trek fan who said that they had read up on last year's event (I assume they mean Satellite 1 - two years ago), that it looked far too serious for them and that it was more for people heavily into the space programe and the serious science writers. They said it didn't appear to be like cons they had previously been to and so wouldn't be going.

Huh?

How do you get around a misconception like that? I know that when I began going to conventions there appeared to be more of a bias against Star Trek fans attending general SF cons. That sort of attitude made me more determined to keep turning up, in costume (see icon), with Tribbles, out of sheer bloodymindedness. I recall certain booksellers telling me to keep it up, that some people were taken aback that here was a Star Trek fan who read books (and not just Star Trek ones) and who could converse intelligently! That attitude seems to have largely gone away (correct me if I'm wrong) and yet I'm still finding Star Trek fans and Dr Who fans who feel they can't go to general SF cons.

I believe we still have a sizeable fan base in the Glasgow area. We used to have 500+ regulars who would attend the Away Team sessions in Glasgow. Where have they gone? How do we get them to return?