LtLiana

No nation in the world is a mono-culture, and often times, people repeat statements they saw specific folk from other cultures make and assume they speak for their entire culture.

This is called a faulty generalization, or over-generalization, and is a logical fallacy.

Every culture has their majorities and minorities - just like neither Trump nor Biden speak for all Americans, the person who educates you about Native American, French, Russian, Indian or Ghanan culture might just happen to be someone with an ideology that their own countrymen would harshly disagree with.

Many people repeat statements that single people on Reddit make such as "actually, we people in Central/South America think the word Latinx is ridiculous and don't use it" completely uncritically, even though for this example, the word even originated within minority groups within those countries (although Latine is more widely accepted, on a tangent).

Similarly, when I read communities dedicated to learning my native language, German, I find a lot of questions by learners that are like "are there non-binary pronouns in German?" or "how do I use gender-neutral language?" and all of the answers basically being "no, it's ungrammatical, nobody uses those, you are ridiculing yourself, generic masculine is universally accepted". As a German, this is just a conservative world view; admittedly, held by a majority, but nonetheless not universal across Germans.

It's a similar problem to the "n-word pass" - just because some Black person told you they're not offended, it does not mean that other Black people agree with them or that they are even right. Just because some trans people tell you that they don't believe in gender does not mean that gender abolitionism is a central tenet of "transgenderism". Just because a bunch of Native Americans came together and say that "Redskins" is actually an inoffensive name that they're proud of, does not mean they speak for all Native Americans and can be used as a token - or vice versa.

Make sure that you always realize that all countries have progressives and conservatives, old and young people, people of fringe ideologies, queer people, people who disagree on social issues, and so on. Not all Muslims are homophobic or transphobic. Not all French people are stuck up about their language. Not all Americans are gun-toting rifle nuts; and even among those, not all of them are conservatives.

The world is infinitely complex. Don't give in to overgeneralization.

Hey there,

I am thinking about buying the Cat B40 feature phone.

My gut feeling tells me that since it does not run either iOS or Android, is a relatively small company in the data/tech sector, and generally it's literally just a feature phone with barely any... well, features, let alone any that would make my data valuable, it should not be profitable for anyone to harvest any data or spy on me. But I realize that's prejudice and I have nothing to back that gut feeling up, and hell, they could still track my location or whatever.

I can find no real information on which operating system runs on the thing, let alone what it can or cannot do software-wise. Does anyone have any information on that thing?

Hey there,

I think it's kind of sad that there isn't much talk on here about the super cool novel-verse that Trek has, let alone the fan fiction community!

Maybe this could be a starter thread for people recommending their favorite licensed or unlicensed works of Trek fiction, together with like a sentence to sell people on it! There's so many points of the Star Trek universe that only novels, comics or even fan fiction explore, and as someone who loves writing plausible fiction about underexplored areas of the universe (like ancient Bajoran history or the day-to-day of an Earth citizen) I wish more people would engage with it.

GO

Hey there,

I have finally been reading some of the Treklit that I was gifted some time ago, and I really loved them! The only problem is that I seem to be missing a lot of context.

I read Revelation and Dust, apparently the first novel in the The Fall miniseries, and it is making references to the Typhon Pact, something that to my knowledge does not appear in the shows and that was entirely unknown to me. There's characters and events that are set up to apparently be familiar to the reader that I never heard of. The original DS9 is gone and they built a second version? I mean, that's really cool, but how did all that happen?

I thought it'd be as straightforward as reading the aptly named Typhon Pact series, but according to Memory Alpha/Beta, that depends on canon and characters from Star Trek: Titan, and also the Destiny duology, and THOSE each depend on like dozens of other books!

Is there a recommended reading order to get up to speed on all of these events post-TV shows? I watched all good shows (e. g. including ENT and no further), and I feel like I am missing a lot of context established in the novels. I would at least really like to understand what led up to The Fall, because it seems to be super intriguing. Who is President Bacco?

qaleghqa'neS!

I'm wondering whether there are any canon-friendly Klingon banners or flags that I can fly in public that are not the very, very nazi looking red-white-black one.

I live in Germany and the alternative might even put me into legal trouble based on whether the judge is having a good day or not, and I just don't want to take any chances or arouse any undue attention from neighbors who don't know anything about Star Trek.

I know there's the green-yellow-red emblem that's much better, but the only full flags that I can see are butt-ugly, non-rectangular green banners from DS9.

There's also this really cool looking one from Star Trek VI apparently, but I don't know what the canon implications are or where to get one:

Any ideas?