You’ve just beamed aboard /c/StarTrek - Welcome!

While this community isn’t brand new (it was created 7+ months ago), it hasn’t been very active lately, so the ship’s lone remaining captain (/u/Tenthrow) has graciously invited a handful of Lemmy’s hardcore Trek fans to the bridge to help get this vessel ready for a long voyage.

We have a large mod team (6 of us currently), whose usernames many will recognize from being highly active in Trek circles across the fediverse. Our moderation philosophy is that having a large team of very active community members allows us to be more responsive, invested in the atmosphere, and equipped to tackle difficult judgment calls as a group. It isn’t easy to moderate any forum in a way that makes everyone happy all of the time, but I believe we’re having the right conversations to attempt to get as close to that goal as possible.

The icon/banner art has been updated, and the sidebar now has the community rules. The rules are all pretty standard stuff, although I do want to specifically point out that there’s a rule about spoilers for those watching any of the currently running series.

Our hope is that this community can serve as a more structured space for Star Trek discussion (e.g. episode posts, news, books?, etc.) that may get lost or overlooked in a fast-moving casual community like /c/TenForward.

Looking forward to seeing how this place grows! LLAP

  • Flying SquidM
    8•6 months ago

    Welcome, everyone! The way I described what I personally hope for this community is a place to have fun discussions about Star Trek that aren’t stuffy like DaystromInstitute on Reddit but also not pure silliness like Ten Forward (although I’m probably going to be the first one to end up being silly anyway, I can’t help myself). But there is definitely a place on Lemmy for people to talk Trek in a friendly way about subjects us fans care about.

    My one personal rule is this- Star Trek canon doesn’t really exist and we shouldn’t pretend it does. It changes all the time. Even within a series.

    That’s not a rule I’m going to enforce as a mod or anything, it’s just something I will not hesitate to point out when I see it.

    And you don’t have to take my word for it. Ex Astris Scientia has a massive inconsistencies list. They make a valiant attempt to explain away as many as they can, but they admit failure all the time too.

    https://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/inconsistencies.htm

    They even have a page of stuff people think is canon but is not.

    https://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/inconsistencies/false_canon.htm