Same problem with sports. It may not come up as much in tech, but as someone working at not-a-tech-firm, people love to talk about sports. And I just don't find any appeal in it. There's no room for me in those conversations.
Learned Fortran on an old TI-99; forgot Fortran; learned to draw, paint, sculpt, and play violin; learned how to merge code and art, turned it into my UX/Front-end dev Frankenthing.
"What's your favorite Star Trek series?"
It's really bad to expect your employees to fit into some kind of arbitrarily-defined "nerd" culture.
The obvious correct answer here would be "the original trilogy".
"The one with the daleks"
Same problem with sports. It may not come up as much in tech, but as someone working at not-a-tech-firm, people love to talk about sports. And I just don't find any appeal in it. There's no room for me in those conversations.
Also, DS9, obviously.
As a fan of Star Wars, I must say...
Quick way to confuse the interviewer: 'I'd say the one with ... stars in it. Yeah, that one. Go sportsball.'
You probably wouldn't get hired there, but would you really want to?
The one the boldly goes where no one has gone before.