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?

  • Stoneykins [any]@mander.xyzEnglish
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    11 months ago

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

  • Bongles@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    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.

  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Star Trek has more historical weight behind it. It more or less created modern scifi fandom. It’s probably so widely beloved because it’s unlike most scifi in that it’s hopeful. It sells you on the idea of a better future where everything could go right, where we can explore space and be chill with everyone. Other scifi franchises sell you on window dressing or a bad future full of the same problems we have now.

    People like Star Trek because they want it to be reality in a way that other scifi stuff just doesn’t do.

    • Des [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      11 months ago

      and it’s positively liberal compared to The Culture series but obviously far more mainstream. there isn’t a real radical reordering of society and humans are basically bioessentialist almost to a fanatical degree, but the fully automated luxury communism itself just seems so radical compared to any visions of the future dropped on us by the ruling classes of today