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?
dominates the federation
Well there you have it.
federates the Dominion
FTFY
that’s why
no other franchise I know of that dominates the federation as much as Star Trek does.
You answered your own question, brother.
Because Babylon 5 ended in 1998 and the reboot isn’t even in production yet. Also MGM doesn’t have the faintest idea what it’s supposed to do with Stargate.
Part of me thinks half of the reason Stargate did so well was because of the culture of the post-9/11 world. Westerners and Americans in particular got to watch SG1 fight people who looked what they thought terrorists looked like. Admittedly they’re not Muslims they’re more akin to Ancient Egyptians aliens. Insofar as Western culture in the early 2000s the early season villains are Muslim adjacent. I don’t think it was intentional, the movie came out long before 9/11. It was just in the right place at the right time. The show got a lot better once the Gua’uld and the Jaffa weren’t the villains of the week.
Stargate premiered 1997, it was already well-established in 2000. The Nox are introduced in s01e08, Asgard in s01e10. Season 5 is the first one which could have 9/11 influence, It’s mopping up the Jaffa rebellion and Osiris and Anubis are introduced but there’s plenty of non-Gua’uld episodes. Oh, and Wormhole X-Treme!.
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The fact that the biggest star trek sub on reddit has been censored to a degree that it drove away many trekkies might also be one of the reasons. I got a lifetime ban there simply for stating that I do not like DIS and PIC because in my opinion they oppose everything star trek stands for.
From what I’ve seen of Lower Decks I really dig it and it seems to fit in quite nicely IMO
That’s the only new Trek show I’ve seen since DS9
The new Trek movies were pretty meh IMO
Sorry for being imprecise, I specifically meant DIS and PIC. However, I can´t stand how fast they talk in LD, sadly that makes it pretty unwatchable for me.
Really? I was banned for a similar reason.
Someone asked the question on that sub, “Why do people hate on Discovery”. And I answered.
I wasn’t edgy. I wasn’t trying to insult. I explained, I gave definitions, I made examples. Apparently the moderator wanted my post to be censored because I wasn’t being “honest and truthful with myself” and used words and terms that weren’t allowed, such as “Mary Sue”.
I quoted Drumhead.
The mod really didn’t like that.
Lol.
Sounds pretty similar to my experience. It really felt like CBS was paying the mods to make sure nobody could express critique.
I almost hate to break this to you…
So the r/StarTrek mods, who banned people simply for having a different opinion on certain shows, are moderating here now? That would be seriously fucked up. I thought we left them on reddit for good.
Star Trek just kinda kicks ass.
What, you haven’t seen Deep Space Nine?? Cmon what’re you doing? Fix that!
Most of the internet was started with Star Trek boards. If I recall correctly, one of the first emails ever sent was about Star Trek
Do you know of a wiki or link to this about trek boards and first email? Search engines now a days are getting on my nerves about not showing what I typed into it.
Wow, didn’t know the roots were that deep…
Also credited with the first widespread fanfics of a TV show, I believe.
Including the one that is the reason we call laughably stupid perfect characters Mary Sue.
I haven’t thought of this in years but back in the '90s I participated in an email fantasy RPG where we all roleplayed Romulans. One person would write a chapter from their character’s POV and email it to the group, then the next person does one, and so on, so the story unfolded in unexpected ways. It was actually pretty fun.
That sounds like such a an awesome early internet thing.
It was. And then of course this one guy asked me if I wanted to take it private so our characters could have their own little love subplot. And uh… I said yes.
Now THAT also sounds like early internet too…
And first male pregnancy fan fiction, fan fiction rings, shipping wars, and so on. House wives created the world AO3 writers live in today
I think it’s nerds. /s
I think a lot of the lemmy userbase are at least somewhat techy (also see the Linux communities), and a lot of techy people like Star Trek.
I never really thought about it before, but it seems obvious now. Trekkies and open source tech folks would have a massive overlap, and Lemmy kind of exists perfectly within that intersection of utilitarian principles. So of course we would all find each other here.
I’m convinced that Trekkies and open source tech are concentric circles.
Techies are Trekkies!
Eh, more like Trekkies are techies. I would consider myself somewhat of a techie, definitely nerdy, and very much into sci-fi, but I really don’t give a shit about Star Trek. I’ve seen a lot of it, just because I’ve had a couple girlfriends that really enjoyed it, but otherwise I probably wouldn’t have watched any after my childhood.
Now, if HBO were to do a hard R version, I’d probably get into it.
We come to serve
Other sci-fi series? What “other sci-fi series”?
EDIT: I wasn’t asking for recommendations, and honestly nothing you can offer will measure up to the glory that is Star trek. Soz all, LLAP 🖖
It’s popular, very memeable, has a long history, and most importantly: there’s 2-3 series of it running right now. So it’s topical and being engaged with.
C’mon you gotta love the original Star Trek series at the very least. I mean it was a milestone and it’s still my favorite of all the Treks out there.
The fact that it has so many communities (for Trek in general) shows that it really resonates with people across the board. I can’t think of many other shows that have achieved that. Its the mix of science fiction and adventure with very human emotions and problems that make it so appealing, I think.
Why not
star trek mods successfully moved their communities from reddit back then. afaik the only other community with similar success is the piracy community.
Successfully pulling off a lift-and-move like that was huge. I wish more niche/fandoms had followed suit instead of staying put.
Unfortunately, outside of the meme zone (i.e. [email protected]) there isn’t a whole lot of engagement anymore. Once the blackout was over, the reddit communities opened back up.
I mean, look at r/DaystromInstitute versus [email protected] – it’s not pretty.
Yeah, but DaystromInstitute kind of sucked. They didn’t have enough of a sense of humor. It didn’t need to be Risa, but they took themselves way too seriously.
There was a post the other day about how Reddit never took anything seriously and how the top comments were always predictable jokes that stopped being funny years ago.
It was nice to have places like Daystrom, Ask Science, etc. that were curated for serious discussion.
Well that sucks. I am guilty of really only following Risa, mostly due to big gaps in my watch history and wanting to avoid spoilers for the newer shows. I’m not surprised though… Reddit had (and still has) tremendous amounts of inertia.
Trek fully embraced the principals of piracy. “You wouldn’t download a car”? Motherfucker, here’s a replicator.
