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
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    7 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.

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

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

    • Meowoem@sh.itjust.works
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      7 months ago

      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.

  • JWBananas@startrek.websiteEnglish
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    7 months ago

    In an interview during the 90’s, William Shatner told of a story of him being recognized in mid-perfomance by a sword dancer in a small Iranian village. The man stopped dead in his tracks and looked straight at him uttering with utter amazement; “Captain Kirk?!?” That should give us perspective as to how deep and far Star Trek reached people for the last 51 years.

    Source: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-approximate-number-of-Star-Trek-fans-worldwide

  • JimboDHimbo@lemmy.ca
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    7 months ago

    In the fictional universe of Star Trek, the United Federation of Planets is the interstellar government with which, as part of its space force Starfleet, most of the characters and starships of the franchise are affiliated.

  • Neato@kbin.social
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    7 months ago

    It’s popular, very memeable, has a long history, and most importantly: there’s 2-3 series of it running right now. So it’s topical and being engaged with.

  • The Picard Maneuver@startrek.website
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    7 months ago

    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.

  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    7 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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      7 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