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Dear Lemmy, why Star Trek?? (programming.dev)

submitted 10 months ago by actual_patience@programming.dev to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Every single large server in this federation has at least one Star Trek community. There is even an entire server dedicated to Star Trek.

Not only that, these communities are some of the most active I've ever seen. There is no other franchise I know of that dominates the federation as much as Star Trek does.

So, what's the correlation with Lemmy and Star Trek? Why not other sci-fi series? Please, are there any connections?? Is this all coincidental?

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[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (8 children)

Lemmy isn't much better. The mod Stamets loves DIS so you better not criticize it. I assume he was the reddit mod.

[–] Nacktmull@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago (7 children)

Please tell me you´re joking, I thought Stamets was cool.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (6 children)

I was arguing with him that Disco wasn't great, didn't know who he was, and looked at his history. I stopped arguing once I saw him banning for arguing against him.

[–] constantokra@lemmy.ml 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I'm pretty sure what he doesn't like is people just dumping on it, which makes sense because we're not hanging out in a place to dump on star trek. Discussion is another thing entirely.

Personally, I think it had a lot of problems to begin with, and i'm glad they soldiered on through at least for the Spock season because damn did it give our older characters a lot more depth. You know, the depth that you feel in them but wasn't explicitly there? Makes Spock's internal struggles and relationships make so much more sense, and sets Pike up perfectly as the absolute idol of all the captains we've seen. Like they're trying to live up to him, each in their own way, but none of them have really gotten to know the guy. Recontextualized the whole thing for me, in a good way. Lots to think about.

Anyway, i've talked with him about that stuff, and some of the problems with it and that's the impression I got.

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