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
I see what you did there
Why is the show about gay space communism popular on the gay space communism network?
quark might be bisexual, true, but he is definitely a capitalist… but we won’t hold that against him
You decide to talk about bisexuality and DS9 and somehow your mind goes to quark instead of fucking Garek??
garek is amazing and he is the best boy <3 i only said quark because i was commenting more on the socialist/capitalist topic from the previous comment :D
Quark is also one-time transgender, so I guess that counts as genderfluid, although we prefer not to talk about that episode.
For a
showfranchise about gay space communism, it’s not very gay at all.They’re happy most of the time.
Fuck off.
Wow, relax
He made an account 20 minutes ago just to post inflammatory, reactionary comments from a hyper-conservative angle, lmao.
Confirmed. What a douche nozzle
Holy shit this sucks. Bye.
Bye
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I meant in a light hearted tongue in cheek way, no need for hostility.
He made an account 20 minutes ago just to post inflammatory, hyper-conservative reactionary comments
😭😭😭
Asking why Star Trek dominates the Federation? tsk tsk tsk
Like some kind of… Dominion?
no other franchise I know of that dominates the federation as much as Star Trek does.
You answered your own question, brother.
Because Trek fans were the first to organize conventions. They started out small in the late 60s. Now every single weekend, somewhere on this planet, there’s a Trek convention being held. The conventions also raise massive money for charity. They are the nerds other nerds want to be, in terms of organization. I’m here for the memes.
Sorry, but there were science fiction conventions before Star Trek.
You are right that Star Trek conventions were the first time a single show was the focus of a convention, and the Star Trek conventions lead to things like ComicCon.
I did not know that, thanks!
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.
Techies are Trekkies!
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.
The top voted posts of the last week are programmer humor jokes that have 400+ upvotes but like 4 comments its weird why don’t yall talk
federated platform full of nerds
asks why there are Star Trek fans
Guess.
there is also a lot of communities about programming and linux
there’s only 1 common denominator here. we are all nerds
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No but I did buy a pill from a pop-up ad.
bird shit
I’m not going to poop on their bananas
Same reason Linux is popular on Lemmy. Lemmy is essentially an explicitly leftist community that appeals to people nerdy and techy enough to leave Reddit and join a smaller platform. Linux is a FOSS, ie leftist techy OS. Star Trek is leftist Sci-Fi.
Nerds, tech, and leftism all congregate on Lemmy.
ELI5…what’s leftism?
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.
as well as the metric system
please. it’s proper name is the correct system.
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
Pretty simple to sum it up as collectivization of industry, or as abolition of Private Property in favor of collective ownership of the Means of Production.
Anything else, such as a rejection of hierarchy or a focus on democratization of production, is an abstraction and benefit of the previous statements.
I’m a voluntarist and think the federation model is an interesting stepping stone to better systems that would enable either direct democracy or polycentric law.
Guys guys, they’re talking about us!
Thr “federation” you say? ;)
The Star Trek community has been going strong for nearly 60 years for a reason - Star Trek rocks.
When it started in the 60s (and continued especially strong with TNG in the 80s), it was unique in depicting a hopeful look at how things could be rather than a reflection of how things are, differing from how most shows do social commentary. It’s refreshing.
Star Trek is attractive to people who want to see a world where people work together toward great things in a post-scarcity utopia, with current day conversations of race, nationality, sex, gender, etc. being so far in the rear-view mirror that they’re non-issues. Plus cool technology. I think that appeals to the Lemmy crowd.
To me, Trek is a mash of three great communities, each nerdy in their own way:
- Science-fiction, specifically optimistic mid-century science fiction.
- Theatre / Drama
- Revolutionary Socialism
This article scratches the surface of it.
Thank you for the article. I’ll need to look more into this in the future.
Another key point I feel is often overlooked about Star Trek is the “Gulliver’s Travels” component of (at least pre-Kelvin) Star Trek. Every show, every race was secretly a fun-house-like caricature of humanity’s worst traits, with the humans of the show demonstrating growth past that point. You laugh at or shirk away from them, but really it’s modern humanity that is being depicted (Ferengi as capitalists, Klingons as warmongers, Romulans as subversives, etc.) And then we see what we could be, the hope that you talked about, in future humanity
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.
It helps that Stewart is such a fantastic monologist. It’s like hearing something complex about biology or ecology from David Attenborough. They both have such an effortless ability to communicate difficult subjects.
Do you include Wesley as an alien in that instance? Because that monologue is solid.
I’m going to say yes. Every teenager is an alien.
Good take.
Shut up, Wesley
I really love it when it’s especially heavy handed. That’s my shit.
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Picard monologues are in fact what I appreciate most in TNG!
That’s very interesting. I think you’ve sold me on watching the show.
The original series is very 1960s and I wouldn’t recommend for a jumping in point. I’d go with next Gen for that, it’s the quintessential trek more so than the original having had 3 spinoffs in the 90s and defining most of the canon. Here’s the issue though, the first 2 seasons of tng really suck. Like maybe the worst 2 seasons of the whole franchise. I’d check out some best of lists for those seasons and maybe sprinkle a couple random ones in, they did 26 hour long episodes per season and there are some amazing clunkers there, bad episodes are part of trek and you’ve gotta learn to enjoy them, but those first 2 seasons are rough.
But if you hang in there, you get rewarded with a Riker’s Beard
How’s Giant Spock doing?
Still vibin
Don’t tell him about that Lower Decks episode.
I think you personally posting more than the other Lemmings combined might have something to do with it…
Almost like it’s some kind of federation…
United Federation of Poindexters
Because I want to see Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism happen in my lifetime.
Shall spandex onesies envelop us all.
So say we all!
Wait…
But not during the movies.
Ya, but sometimes stretchy velvet.
Ah yes, FALGSC.
We may never have a good answer for why the gay nerdy communists love the colorful scifi communist space adventures
If you’re trying to say the way ryker throws his leg over a chair is the cause of me becoming a communist programmer then I have to tell you that you are sorely accurate.
