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Dear Lemmy, why Star Trek?? (programming.dev)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Why is the show about gay space communism popular on the gay space communism network?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Star Trek has more historical weight behind it. It more or less created modern scifi fandom. It's probably so widely beloved because it's unlike most scifi in that it's hopeful. It sells you on the idea of a better future where everything could go right, where we can explore space and be chill with everyone. Other scifi franchises sell you on window dressing or a bad future full of the same problems we have now.

People like Star Trek because they want it to be reality in a way that other scifi stuff just doesn't do.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

and it's positively liberal compared to The Culture series but obviously far more mainstream. there isn't a real radical reordering of society and humans are basically bioessentialist almost to a fanatical degree, but the fully automated luxury communism itself just seems so radical compared to any visions of the future dropped on us by the ruling classes of today

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

where's The Culture tv show? i don't have the executive function for books anymore.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Amazon is supposedly working on it, but I wouldn't get your hopes up of it being any good.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

We may never have a good answer for why the gay nerdy communists love the colorful scifi communist space adventures

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

that's why

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Well, you see, Lemmy is full of nerds and communists.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

dominates the federation

Well there you have it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

federates the Dominion

FTFY

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

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.