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

submitted 11 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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[–] axont@hexbear.net 34 points 11 months ago (2 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.

[–] Des@hexbear.net 11 points 11 months ago (2 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

[–] Omniraptor@hexbear.net 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Judging from how some people talk about ai idk if most people even leftists would like to live in the culture. But yeah, the books turned me into a transgender communist so I'd recommend them based on that

[–] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] DefinitelyNotAPhone@hexbear.net 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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

[–] actual_patience@programming.dev 7 points 11 months ago

Good explanation, thanks!