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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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[–] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 101 points 10 months ago (3 children)

that's why

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 13 points 10 months ago

The French line at the bottom 😄

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Soon we'll all be sorry.

[–] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The funny irony is that assimilate is a slur in Canada due to its rich history of genocidal intent, to the point someone got into legal hot water because they had a novelty star trek license plate containing it and people thought they meant basically our equivalent of the n word.

They had to explain to a bunch of people including the news what they actually meant and they were like "we don't care, change it" which is especially rich coming from a culture and government which still continues assimilation-styled (as well as actual killing) genocide to this day.