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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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[–] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 25 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Others have brought up other reasons, but one I haven't seen is simply the depth of material to work with. Trek has had multiple multi-season series and tons of movies, which means you can basically find the right image for any meme if you watch enough of it.

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[–] GreenTeaRedFlag@hexbear.net 25 points 11 months ago (3 children)

lemmy is created by and for techy dorks, star trek is for the same audience. Many of us are also communist or otherwise leftist, and star trek has done more for us than any other media. Major Nerys Kira, after which one of hexbear's admins is named, was an explicitly violent terrorist who helped liberate her people from a fascist occupation, and she never gets mistreated because of it. Queer content on star trek has not been perfect, but was beter than anywhere else on TV for a long time because they had freedom to explore different ideas about gender and sexuality(when berhman wasn't breathing down their necks) due to sci-fi having the excuse of being a fictional alien species. THe first inter-racial kiss on tv was from star trek, another point in the shows favor. There's also a whole episode where a characrer becomes a Marxist, so coolest shit ever made. rommunism. I could go on for hours, but the bottom line is that it's just peak fiction.

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[–] LostWon@lemmy.ca 24 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Infinite diversity in infinite combinations.

(Also, DS9 was the best.)

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[–] AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 23 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm not that into Star Trek but until other scifi communities I'm actually into get as active as Star Trek, I'll be hanging out with the trekkies.

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[–] RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml 22 points 11 months ago (1 children)
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[–] Da_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyi 21 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Can't star trek across the fediverse without multiple space docks.

Just watch for the Klingons on the starboard bow.

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[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 20 points 11 months ago

Man, there's a dedicated instance for yiff.

Compared to that, star trek is a million times more popular lol.

But, like other people have said, it's a huge thing. Star Trek is one of, if not the most successful TV universe. It crossed into movies, comics, books, toys, everything. The "brand" spans most of a human lifetime so far, and has done so with a surprisingly minor degree of fuckery that insults the fan base.

So you end up with generations of fans, across all kinds of demographics.

It's science fiction. And there's not many ~~hives of scum and villainy~~ places online that are more sci-fi friendly than lemmy; even mastodon isn't quite as sci-fi loving.

But you may be missing that star wars has a ton of related C/s as well. There's dedicated sci-fi C/s scattered around. Compare that to genres like fantasy or westerns, and you start to see the trend leaning that way.

But, you're right that it is a disproportionate thing. The only "brand" that seems to be as universal as trek on lemmy is LOTR, and that's a foundation of fantasy as a whole.

[–] nomecks@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago

I think open source is a very Star Trek-ish Idea, so it's natural that people from that community like a show with similar values.

[–] n3m37h@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 11 months ago

The United Federation of Planets

But in this case with servers running Lemmy

[–] Kushia@lemmy.ml 16 points 11 months ago

It's not my thing but I appreciate just how much depth and substance Star Trek has to it and the sci-fi theme is a perfect fit for most people who frequent Lemmy.

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago

Because Star Trek (the old stuff, not the new stuff) is for nerds, and Lemmy is also for nerds.

[–] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 15 points 11 months ago

star trek is optimistic about the future and that's basically nonexistent in post-cold war SF

[–] Efwis@lemmy.zip 14 points 11 months ago

To this day the government is still trying to create a lot of the tech from Star Trek. They are actively working on warp technology, replicators for food and clothes etc and Star Trek was the basis for a lot of today’s computers (i.e. no tubes like old tvs and computers before the invention of the desktop computer).

One time the government actually approached the producers and wanted to know how they got the doors to open and close automatically like they do. Genes answer β€œthere’s two men holding onto broom sticks, one on each side, when the actor walked up to the doors they would pull the broomsticks and make a β€˜whooshing’ sound as they opened and closed them β€œ

Now we have that tech on 90% of retail shop doors. Star Trek was the basis for a lot of tech we use now.

[–] covert_czar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 11 months ago (3 children)
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[–] JimboDHimbo@lemmy.ca 14 points 11 months ago (3 children)

In the fictional universe of Star Trek, the United Federation of Planets is the interstellar government with which, as part of its space force Starfleet, most of the characters and starships of the franchise are affiliated.

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[–] halm@leminal.space 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (17 children)

Other sci-fi series? What "other sci-fi series"?

EDIT: I wasn't asking for recommendations, and honestly nothing you can offer will measure up to the glory that is Star trek. Soz all, LLAP πŸ––

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[–] Neato@kbin.social 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's popular, very memeable, has a long history, and most importantly: there's 2-3 series of it running right now. So it's topical and being engaged with.

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