Please understand: I mean this in a very, very loving way. Lemmy has so much content and so many references that I do not understand but it’s awesome seeing all these passionate communities outside of my usual circles.

  • Grayox
    link
    fedilink
    9810 months ago

    All the star trek memes convinced me to start a star trek watch through. Didn’t realize there were so many dang episodes, its gonna take a while.

      • Grayox
        link
        fedilink
        1810 months ago

        I most certainly am going to, I’ve watched alot of random episodes from multiple different series, but my partner has only watched a few with captain janeway. We just finished part 1 of the menagerie, honestly wish we had skipped the original pilot so the episode would hit harder for her, but it is what it is.

        • The Picard Maneuver
          link
          fedilink
          1110 months ago

          What a great episode though. I just finished a rewatch of TOS a few weeks ago, and I love it so much.

        • Flying Squid
          link
          110 months ago

          If you ever get to Strange New Worlds and Discovery, they flesh out The Menagerie in all kinds of interesting ways. My only complaint is that they didn’t make Vina look deformed enough when she appeared.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      910 months ago

      Every night I look forward to new adventures on whatever Star Trek series that I’ve come to.

      If I fall a sleep during an episode, I blame the episode, and I haven’t regretted cutting them short like that. The good ones will be worth it and most of the bad ones too, but when the android character is playing a theater part of Sherlock Holmes on the holodeck and I’m supposed to give a shit? No.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      810 months ago

      Likewise. I downloaded what’s supposed to be every episode. I don’t know how I’m going to find the time to watch all this. Very intimidating.

      • Grayox
        link
        fedilink
        1210 months ago

        Holy shit i just googled it and there are 903 episodes including the movies…

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          English
          7
          edit-2
          10 months ago

          It took me like a week to download what I think is all of them from a decent cable connection. I do intend to watch this but it’s going to take me like a year given that I have a job.

          However, I’m very privileged in a sense. I get to watch them for the first time. How many fans would love to rewatch episodes for the first time?

          • @Archer
            link
            510 months ago

            Do a reaction post for or during each episode! As a longtime fan it’s fun hearing what people thought about it for the first time

        • Apathy Tree
          link
          fedilink
          English
          5
          edit-2
          10 months ago

          Does that include all the animated stuff, do you know?

          • Grayox
            link
            fedilink
            210 months ago

            Not sure, i just googled, dont have time to count them all myself lol so damn many

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          310 months ago

          If you’re looking for a way to start, Next Generation (TNG) is a good entry point, though you might want to start with season 3 (it’s when it really started to feel polished). If you like that then Voyager is similarly episodic and easy to watch, though the writers could’ve treated some of the characters a little better in that. Modern episodic trek is Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks, also both immediately fun and easy to get into.

          Deep Space 9 is what started trek on having longer serialized arcs, and Enterprise also has long story lines (the entirety of season 3 was one arc).

          And I’ll probably get some disagreement for this, but despite having grown up on trek and watched almost everything that’s out there (I think I just have 1 or 2 seasons of Discovery left), I’ve never really been able to watch much of the original series. It just feels way too dated for me. Maybe if the guys over at the Greatest Generation podcast pick it up I’ll try to work through it.

          • Grayox
            link
            fedilink
            210 months ago

            I wanted to start with TNG but my partner insisted on starting at the beginning, that being said its been really fun watching tropes get introduced, like Kirk getting his shirt ripped and bones saying, “I’m a doctor not a -----” its really good if you even slightly enjoy campy stuff and has gotten tons of laughs from us as we watch it. But yeah TNG is the best place to start imo.

    • @RealFknNito
      link
      English
      510 months ago

      Same here actually. Halfway through the first season of TNG. Happy to have something to binge. Also going to switch to Linux in the neat future.

    • @Telodzrum
      link
      210 months ago

      I did the math a while back it’s well over a thousand hours for all the series and movies. With the recent surge in new properties, it’s going to be much higher than what I came up with even a few years ago.

  • Corgana
    link
    fedilink
    90
    edit-2
    10 months ago

    With startrek.website we’d hoped creating a Star Trek themed instance might encourage other ex-moderators to start topic-specific instances too, and it would kick off a flourishing of myriad communities run by devoted moderators, a Lemmyverse so diverse and inspiring that not even Reddit could further justify it’s own existence in the presence of such an obviously superior system.

    Instead it turned out “Star Trek and Linux” was enough to satisfy nearly everyone’s tastes (both subtle and gross).

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      1010 months ago

      I’ve been enjoying ttrpg.network but hopefully more rpg nerds come to this instance in time.

      • @Buffaloaf
        link
        1110 months ago

        Bull. Shit. Have you never seen a debate on Star Wars or comic book characters?

    • @Psythik
      link
      410 months ago

      Shit like this is why I started using imgur alongside Lemmy. They’re no better than reddit was, but I need my memes.

    • @TropicalDingdong
      link
      210 months ago

      With startrek.website we’d hoped creating a Star Trek themed instance might encourage other ex-moderators to start topic-specific instances too, and it would kick off a flourishing of myriad communities run by devoted moderators, a Lemmyverse so diverse and inspiring that not even Reddit could further justify it’s own existence in the presence of such an obviously superior system.

      Yeah I tried a WSB themed instance. Lemmy really isn’t set up to support this. Its a pretty critical issue with how its engineered and can’t really be fixed in the current structure.

  • DumbAceDragon
    link
    fedilink
    English
    5510 months ago

    The natural state of the internet is just trekkies and tech geeks, everyone else is an invasive species.

    • SSTF
      link
      710 months ago

      Look at this at tell me it’s insufficiently nerdy.

      • Flying Squid
        link
        410 months ago

        Okay, I’ll tell you it’s insufficiently nerdy. How about a game that’s been played since 1983 and has just gotten to the second turn?

        The only game that came with its own protractor. I’m not joking.

  • idunnololz
    link
    3510 months ago

    It kinda sucks if you don’t use Linux and don’t watch Star Trek though :/

    • Ghostalmedia
      link
      English
      1910 months ago

      I once told Lemmy users that I liked MacOS. I still haven’t recovered from the beating.

      • idunnololz
        link
        1210 months ago

        Lmao. I don’t really care what OS people use. I’m not really passionate about any OS. I just use it as a medium to do things I enjoy so I’m really not interested in any OS talk about any operating system. I use all 3 OS daily pretty much (Linux, Mac and Windows).

        • Flying Squid
          link
          610 months ago

          It’s a personal choice and it doesn’t really matter much.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        310 months ago

        MacOS, you mean Unix with a wallpaper? While Unix is not Linux, BSD is open source so it’s nice!

      • @KrapKake
        link
        310 months ago

        I won’t beat you this time but I did laugh at your comment.

    • @Squizzy
      link
      810 months ago

      Start watched TNG, I used to get an episode or 2 between work and gym and it was bliss. Wish I could watch it again for the first time.

      The rest hasn’t been as good, some highlights but nothing grabs me nearly as much.

        • @Squizzy
          link
          110 months ago

          I enjoyed the ramp up, it was DS9 I couldn’t get into at all. Gave up a few episodes in. Haven’t tried Voyager sequentially yet but I liked some episodes. Discovery sucked except for Isaacs. I liked SNW.

            • @Squizzy
              link
              110 months ago

              Muck, but I watched the clips where he met Q and Ryker.

          • @[email protected]
            link
            fedilink
            English
            110 months ago

            Oh, sorry to hear that. DS9 gets pretty good later on - especially the “middle” is great, testing out the limits of the world/starfleet ethics. I think it’s my favorite trek… (second being TNG, watched that growing up). Maybe give DS9 another chance and just jump in somewhere after Season 1…

    • @x4740N
      link
      English
      610 months ago

      I watch star trek but don’t use Linux as a primary operating system due to it not meeting specific requirements of mine

    • @ohlaph
      link
      610 months ago

      What are you in to little buddy?

      • idunnololz
        link
        4
        edit-2
        10 months ago

        Memes and league of legends. And gaming in general.

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          410 months ago

          [email protected]
          [email protected]

          Join the league communities and start discussions! They could use more conversation. I’m resuming after not playing in a long time myself, probably because I decided to watch LCS when someone told me that a team besides C9 or TL won last split.

          It’ll take me some time to catch up on all these changes, though lol. Hopefully the pro seasons resuming helps.

  • @someguy3
    link
    32
    edit-2
    10 months ago

    Lemmy. The final frontier.

    These are the forums of the Lemmy communities.

    Its continuing mission to explore strange new posts. To seek out new memes and new discussions.

    To boldly go where no social media has gone before.

  • @chalupapocalypse
    link
    2710 months ago

    We just need Monty Python and hitchhikers guide and we’re golden

  • Cowbee [he/him]
    link
    fedilink
    2410 months ago

    All 3 are leftist, based on rejecting individual ownership, and related to FOSS (tangentially in Star Trek’s case), and all 3 are nerdy as hell. They have a lot in common under the hood.

    • Flying Squid
      link
      1410 months ago

      based on rejecting individual ownership

  • KptnAutismus
    link
    2110 months ago

    that and communists, a lot of communists.

    • Ghostalmedia
      link
      English
      2010 months ago

      And not always the chill “I live on a commune and make shirts out of hemp” communists. We’re talking about the “let’s have an armed revolution” communists.

      • KptnAutismus
        link
        610 months ago

        and “if you don’t boycot everything remotely connected to right-wingers you’re a nazi” has happened to me more than once.

        in the german communities you’re also very likely to be heavily insulted if you express your enhusiasm for cars, letalone trying to explain why we can’t switch everyone over to either public transportation or EVs.

    • doctorskullOP
      link
      510 months ago

      Is Snot Flickerman a pseudonym for Scott Aukerman? Because it sure sounds like one.

      • Snot Flickerman
        link
        fedilink
        English
        7
        edit-2
        10 months ago

        I’m not Scott Aukerman, I’m just one of his many names…

        TrickShotterman, AfterShockerman, ShockJockerman, YachtRockerman, Blog Gawkerman, Stop Clockerman, Flip Flopperman, Crop Circleman, Flash Backerman, Bob Johnson… Oh wait.

        I like to think of Snot Flickerman as one of those newscasters played by Tom Kenny.

  • Margot Robbie
    link
    fedilink
    1210 months ago

    And nobody mentioned beans?

    You can’t have Lemmy without at least one reference to beans!

      • Flying Squid
        link
        410 months ago

        That’s normal for me right now. Hooray mystery illness.

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          210 months ago

          Until you get your illness sorted out (and hopefully that’s soon!), prune juice could help - after all, it is a warrior’s drink!

          • Flying Squid
            link
            110 months ago

            Thank you. I tried it. I can’t stand the stuff. I’ve been drinking V8 though, so hopefully that will help.

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    1110 months ago

    Hey now, that’s unfair. It’s Star Trek references, Linux memes, and disingenuous leftist in-fighting!

  • @rickdg
    link
    910 months ago

    sudo make it so