Federate the Dominion? Are you joking?

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.

Tech nerds are Trekkers!

I'm convinced that Trekkies and open source tech are concentric circles.

It seems like such a creative way to do social commentary. We get to see our present failings in aliens, and then contrast it with how the crew (future humanity) carries themselves. Sometimes it's very clunky and heavy handed (like that TOS episode with the half-white/half-black aliens), but it's still good. My favorites are every time Picard monologues about their values to an alien race in TNG.

Even if you already share the values, it's fascinating to hear them laid out so clearly.

That's very interesting. I think you've sold me on watching the show.

Thank you for the article. I'll need to look more into this in the future.

Workers of the worlds you mean?

And it's a great example of how viable lemmy is as an alternative. Not sure about random subs, but any of the really nerdy ones could make the jump.

You decide to talk about bisexuality and DS9 and somehow your mind goes to quark instead of fucking Garek??

Quark is also one-time transgender, so I guess that counts as genderfluid, although we prefer not to talk about that episode.

They're happy most of the time.

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.

Including the one that is the reason we call laughably stupid perfect characters Mary Sue.

And first male pregnancy fan fiction, fan fiction rings, shipping wars, and so on. House wives created the world AO3 writers live in today

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_World_Science_Fiction_Convention#:~:text=The%201st%20World%20Science%20Fiction%20Convention%20%28Worldcon%29%20was,%22%20NyCon%20I%20%22%20by%20Forrest%20J%20Ackerman.

I prefer the cellular peptide cake myself.

Wait but which O'Brien? Miles? Or the clone Miles that was meant to infiltrate the peace talk? Or the Miles from 7 hours in the future that just replaced the present day Miles? There's just so many to choose from, it's so hard

Yes! Bury your seafood waste, like prawn shells and fish heads, next to the tree and you will get large sweet bananas (assuming watering and general feeding). Applies to most fruit trees.

No but I did buy a pill from a pop-up ad.

bird shit

In my experience it is a very very loose collection of ideologies that share the common idea that there is no innate hierarchy between people and that helping others does not necessarily erode your own place in society.

Edit: Oh, it was an ELI5, then a leftist is someone who thinks other people in their sandbox does not make the sandbox worse.

A leftist is someone who, in the French national assembly, sits to the left, as seen from the lectern: Supporters of the Ancien Régime (monarchists) sat to the right, revolutionaries (of every colour) to the left.

As such the core tenets of leftism are Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité, in short, enlightenment values later coalescing into humanist values, as well as the metric system. Which is why the US cannot into leftism.

For me, the defining characteristic of leftism is trying to achieve social equality through redistribution of wealth and power from those who have plenty to those who don't have enough.

Collectivization of industry, ie a rejection of Private Property. FOSS is leftist as it rejects individually owned IP and the profit motive.

Socialism, Anarchism, Communism, etc. are examples of leftist ideologies.

If you want a true ELI5, instead of one dude owning the factory and therefore everything the Workers create in it, imagine the Workers owning the factory and democratically deciding how to allocate profits and whether or not to elect a manager to help facilitate this.

A political catch-all for non-conservatives

Its so big and wide and vague, theres no good answer.

But basically, communists and hippies

So say we all!

Wait...

But not during the movies.

Ya, but sometimes stretchy velvet.

For real. It's been at least top 3, and arguably top 2, for scifi my entire life.

Star Trek has been at the top for nearly 60 years. In the US at least, you can turn over a rock anywhere and find a Star Trek fan.

Yeah, IDK. As a huge Trekkie, I’ve been nothing but pleased that Trek forced its way into the mainstream without changing its progressive this-is-for-everyone values.

That was pretty true for a long time but it's changing as of the last decade or so

I fucking love Star Trek and have since I was a kid 20+ years ago

I guess I mean this in a relative way.

I can talk about Star Wars and basically everyone I know has a lot of context. Most people have watched a good amount of it. Even people who are explicitly not nerds know about it. Same with most comic stuff.

Meanwhile Star Trek is still a lot more niche. People know the bare basics of what it is, but that's about it. With the exception of my SO, I've met a grand total of two people who watch it.

Also if someone knows a lot about Star Wars or Marvel they don't necessarily know a lot about other nerd IPs. Meanwhile the people who knew about Star Trek also knew about shit like Farscape, Dark Matter, and other IP that just gets confused looks from most people.

It's wild to me that I have friends who say dis is too woke because it has real gay, trans, autistic, etc. characters, but they love TNG. Really? You sure forgot a lot of the episodes.

TNG had Data allow his child to choose their own gender.

TOS had one of the first televised interracial kisses.

If you think science fiction is laser fights in space, this opinion makes sense. If you like characters and setting, it's probably some of the best sci fi on TV.

DS9 still holds up today. I don't think I will ever reach a point in my life where "In the Pale Moonlight" isn't some of the best television ever made.

The same could be said about you. 😤

I've just watched TNG for the first time, and going through DS9 now. It still kicks ass.

Sure, it looks dated, and pre-beard TNG was rough, but I can absolutely see why trekkies are so deeply obsessed with it.

captain hawk will always kick ass.

Stargate would like to talk to you about replicators.

Unfortunately, outside of the meme zone (i.e. !risa@startrek.website) 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 !DaystromInstitute@startrek.website – it's not pretty.

Lol.

Sounds pretty similar to my experience. It really felt like CBS was paying the mods to make sure nobody could express critique.

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

honestly, y'all should both give strange new worlds a shot. to me they're the closest we've ever gotten to TOS. even moreso than TNG. and i agree that the other new treks were ass.

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.

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.

Stamets? Never heard of him ... /s

It's not even some nebulous "they", JMS himself has been pitching it since 2021 and latest news is, well, that CW didn't cancel the project amidst ownership and direction change and the writer's strike.

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!.

Dude, I hate Nena so much!