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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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[–] halm@leminal.space 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (7 children)

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 πŸ––

[–] GeKVe@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Firefly πŸ₯Ί

[–] verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Lest we forget.

[–] Uglyhead@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Sheeeit,.. I watch Alien 4 just to watch more proto-Firefly characters in action. The hidden wheelchair guns are my favorite.

[–] Uglyhead@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Expanse holds pretty true. Still doesn’t have it all like Trek tho.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda, of course!

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 13 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Sadly, it turns out that Kevin Sorbo is a massive douchebag. As someone who grew up with Hercules, finding that out was extremely depressing.

[–] Osa-Eris-Xero512@kbin.social 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Happily, Lucy Lawless (Xena) is almost exactly opposite, so those shows don't have to be all bad.

[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 0 points 10 months ago

hmmm theres meme potential with their off-camera character disparity..... hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[–] Xariphon@kbin.social 4 points 10 months ago

From what I remember he didn't go completely bugfuck insane until after Hercules.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

And he has a massive ego, hence the 'God damn I look good.'

Also, Andromeda was marginally acceptable in Season 1 and awful for the rest.

But I suppose we have Gene to thank for it, just like Star Trek.

[–] ThePantser@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

What about Earth Final Conflict?

[–] Whirling_Ashandarei@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The Orville, of course!

[–] halm@leminal.space -1 points 10 months ago

Nope. It's like a version of Voyager where everybody is as annoying as Neelix. I gave it a season's benefit of the doubt, never again.

[–] AnonTwo@kbin.social 4 points 10 months ago

Twilight Zone?

[–] FMT99@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Much as I love TNG, Babylon 5 > Star Trek, don't bother trying to change my mind.

[–] Zorque@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago

Hard to argue with fanatics, I agree.