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?

  • Bongles@lemm.ee
    176·
    11 个月前

    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.

      • Travalaaaaaaanche!@lemmy.worldEnglish
        261·
        11 个月前

        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.

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
          11·
          11 个月前

          There’s a fun documentary called How William Shatner Changed the World about all the scientists and inventors who have been inspired by Star Trek.

        • Broken_Monitor@lemmy.world
          67·
          11 个月前

          I find star trek boring too, there’s a lot of far more interesting and exciting scifi out there so I really don’t get how it still has such a huge fan base still.

          That said, if they start dropping the hard Rs in Star Trek I will definitely tune in to that catastrophe.

          • z500@startrek.websiteEnglish
            91·
            11 个月前

            If it’s hard Rs you want, just put on any episode where O’Brien is mad at the Cardassians

            • The Barto@sh.itjust.works
              7·
              11 个月前

              Star trek: in our universe racism is no more…

              O’Brien: Damn Spoon heads!

              Star Trek: Except Miles, he’s the exception to the rule.

          • jack55555@lemmy.ml
            41·
            11 个月前

            Not everything needs to be action or drama packed. It’s like a good documentary, the premise is usually very exciting. Kind of like a what if.

    • Yardy Sardley@lemmy.ca
      13·
      11 个月前

      I never really thought about it before, but it seems obvious now. Trekkies and open source tech folks would have a massive overlap, and Lemmy kind of exists perfectly within that intersection of utilitarian principles. So of course we would all find each other here.

  • The Picard Maneuver@startrek.website
    1481·
    11 个月前

    The Star Trek community has been going strong for nearly 60 years for a reason - Star Trek rocks.

    When it started in the 60s (and continued especially strong with TNG in the 80s), it was unique in depicting a hopeful look at how things could be rather than a reflection of how things are, differing from how most shows do social commentary. It’s refreshing.

    Star Trek is attractive to people who want to see a world where people work together toward great things in a post-scarcity utopia, with current day conversations of race, nationality, sex, gender, etc. being so far in the rear-view mirror that they’re non-issues. Plus cool technology. I think that appeals to the Lemmy crowd.

  • ISometimesAdmin@the.coolest.zone
    112·
    11 个月前

    So others have already talked about how great Star Trek is. I agree with them, but I think that literally everyone has missed the point of your question:

    https://startrek.website

    It’s its own lemmy instance. It was spawned from the migration away from reddit, and it’s stayed alive since. So combine an active former-reddit community with lemmy and a good reason to all rally around, and finally the final ingredient of federation, and the Star Trek related rooms will always be on every server, and they’ll always be populated.

    • 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      711·
      11 个月前

      Yeah, I think this is a big part of it. The Star Trek sub’s total abandonment of Reddit and conversion to a standalone Lemmy instance during the Blackout was a big deal and a big driver of traffic in those days and beyond.

      Star Trek is big in the Threadiverse for the same reason that Earth is big in the Federation. They were a massive force in the early days.

      • constantokra@lemmy.ml
        6·
        11 个月前

        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.

    • Actual@programming.devOPEnglish
      3·
      11 个月前

      Both this and all other answers are good for different reasons. From what I’m reading, the beliefs and politics displayed within Star Trek are beyond progressive for the time it came out, while also shaping sci-fi. This creates a very committed fan base that when Reddit started acting up, they were able to move a large chunk of their user base away to Lemmy, since Lemmy is filled with similar-minded people.

  • nixcamic@lemmy.world
    1073·
    11 个月前

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

    • Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml
      5·
      11 个月前

      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.

  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
    941·
    11 个月前

    Most of the internet was started with Star Trek boards. If I recall correctly, one of the first emails ever sent was about Star Trek

  • Gabu@lemmy.ml
    89·
    11 个月前

    no other franchise I know of that dominates the federation as much as Star Trek does.

    You answered your own question, brother.

  • Stoneykins [any]@mander.xyzEnglish
    901·
    11 个月前

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

    • Meowoem@sh.itjust.works
      141·
      11 个月前

      If you’re trying to say the way ryker throws his leg over a chair is the cause of me becoming a communist programmer then I have to tell you that you are sorely accurate.

  • verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works
    822·
    11 个月前

    Because Trek fans were the first to organize conventions. They started out small in the late 60s. Now every single weekend, somewhere on this planet, there’s a Trek convention being held. The conventions also raise massive money for charity. They are the nerds other nerds want to be, in terms of organization. I’m here for the memes.

  • kerrigan778@lemmy.world
    781·
    11 个月前

    Ah yes, the nostalgic leftist scifi show that defined generations is popular amongst the left leaning members of the nostalgia generation.

      • Odum@lemmy.world
        8·
        11 个月前

        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

  • BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee
    69·
    11 个月前

    there is also a lot of communities about programming and linux

    there’s only 1 common denominator here. we are all nerds