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Star Trek fans have held the national stereotype of being way too rabid about things for decades but they’re probably the nicest fan base in all of science fiction and the one least likely to have a large faction of them absolutely lose it over a torpedo being fired by a woman or dumb shit like that

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    • flicker
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      365 months ago

      I threw up the horns. It was nuts as a middle school girl, when Voyager first started airing, and everyone was so angry about Janeway and when I’d ask why they would turn red and shake their head, or change the topic.

      • @Crashumbc
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        275 months ago

        The good old days, when sexist, racist, homophobes at least kept their mouths shut… Now they’d give you a speech about how she should be in the galley :(

    • @[email protected]
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      5 months ago

      It’s true. It’s not been a totally smooth ride. It’s taken work to educate fellow fans, and making the intolerant unwelcome.

      Like there was early “controversy” about Geordie getting to be on the bridge. Which seemed kind of logical, but if you scratched below the surface you’d see how selective that critique was. That it was just racism and ableism

    • @samus12345
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      35 months ago

      I remember a comment saying that Tuvok was so anal his skin is brown on Usenet in 1995. Some things never change.