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.

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

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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_World_Science_Fiction_Convention#:~:text=The 1st World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon) was," NyCon I " by Forrest J Ackerman.

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.

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

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.

So say we all!

Wait...

But not during the movies.

Ya, but sometimes stretchy velvet.

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

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.

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.

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.

The same could be said about you. 😤

captain hawk will always kick ass.

Lol, tell that to the bible.

Stargate would like to talk to you about replicators.

Unfortunately, outside of the meme zone (i.e. [email protected]e) 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.

The Plagueis Tragedy even made it huge on r/Place one year.

Alot of them are living in an empire they've been conditioned to be okay with after all.

iirc George Lucas himself said that Star Wars is an allegory for the Vietnamese (Rebel Alliance) resisting American imperialism (Galactic Empire)

Ah thank you! I've been trying to remember what subbreddit took their villain rp too seriously. It wasn't all that funny when people just swapped out real slurs and minorities for fictional ones.

I mean, it's a really good build.

That’s just a red herring…

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!.

Our world is already post scarcity too for basic needs like food and housing. We're just terrible at actually getting them to people since most countries are still capitalist, so they prioritize capital/profit over human lives and rely on what's basically slave labour from less developed nations to make the ruling class richer.

And yet the political commentary displayed in the series is blatantly leftist in nature, and was written in the context of modern Capitalism.

Just like showing a dystopian hyper-Capitalist cyberpunk future is a commentary on the dangers of modern day Capitalism, showing a more "enlightened" post-scarcity Communist society as a hopeful future is also commentary on modern day society.

Sci-fi is pretty much just political, as it's all speculative fiction based on different possibilities of modern society abstracted to a future setting.

Watch Star Trek TNG and you'll instantly get it. The original series was getting a bit dated by the 90s, but TNG is still as fresh as you can get, talking about issues we're still dealing with - It's timeless. Not to mention it has, IMO, the best and most synergistic crew of the whole franchise.

Popular, geeky, and leftist. That last one likely resonates with a large part of the communist/socialist community we have here on Lemmy.

It certainly does for Lemmy dev Dessalines, seeing how they're responding on this thread too.

tbh, i'm not sure you're correct. most other franchises are either more devicive or do not have the same cross generational appeal.

Star wars is highly devicive

Stargate was widely loved but currently only exists for a single generation

BSG was great but didnt achieve the same culture permiation that star trek did

Hiya, youngblood!

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TNG for the best captain but DS9 for best characters and stories.