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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.

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[–] Grayox@lemmy.ml 98 points 9 months ago (6 children)

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.

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website 59 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Almost 60 years worth at this point. Hope you enjoy the journey!

[–] Grayox@lemmy.ml 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

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

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 9 points 9 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.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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@lemmy.ml 12 points 9 months ago (5 children)

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

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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?

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[–] Corgana@startrek.website 92 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (7 children)

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).

[–] DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 35 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Arch...? You mean Jonathan Archer. I understood this Star Trek reference.

[–] DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 9 months ago

Errrrrr... Exactly!

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[–] Corgana@startrek.website 21 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)
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[–] TGhost@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This meme got the LW logo to represent Lemmy. We can understand why there is no more :-(

But in reality, there is dbzer0, blahaj, slrpnk, and more too

[–] n0clue@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

All of those sound like sketchy porn sites...

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[–] Shyfer@ttrpg.network 10 points 9 months ago

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

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Nerds have always been easy to please.

[–] Buffaloaf@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] conorab@lemmy.conorab.com 7 points 9 months ago

Hey! Easy to please, not agree with! 😁

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[–] DumbAceDragon@sh.itjust.works 55 points 9 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago

Eternal September, when the vermin move in.

[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

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

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[–] idunnololz@lemmy.world 36 points 9 months ago (8 children)

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

[–] lugal@lemmy.ml 22 points 9 months ago

Well, the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 18 points 9 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] idunnololz@lemmy.world 11 points 9 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).

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[–] fakeman_pretendname 14 points 9 months ago

You can fix both of those problems in the same evening :)

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago (6 children)

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.

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[–] x4740N@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago (3 children)

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

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[–] Rekonok@sh.itjust.works 33 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

I have no regrets joining

I use Arch btw - live long and prosper lemmings

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I'm on mbin BTW. The fediverse arch.

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[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 31 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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.

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[–] chalupapocalypse@lemmy.world 27 points 9 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 14 points 9 months ago

And more C A T P I C T U R E S

The true foundation of any internet community.

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[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 24 points 9 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.

[–] KpntAutismus@lemmy.world 23 points 9 months ago (1 children)

that and communists, a lot of communists.

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 20 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] KpntAutismus@lemmy.world 7 points 9 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.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 9 months ago (3 children)
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[–] syd@lemy.lol 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

And so much porn with strange fantasies.

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 9 months ago (5 children)
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[–] MargotRobbie@lemm.ee 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

And nobody mentioned beans?

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

[–] klemptor@startrek.website 6 points 9 months ago

Yeah and also that time mizu wanted to skip pooping for 3 days

[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

You're such a fake leftist.

[–] Exusia@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

They were here first, we are just the June Exiles.

[–] rickdg@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago

sudo make it so

[–] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 8 points 9 months ago

Just as Tim Berners-Lee intended 👃

[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

Hey uhhhh you know Battletech and Warhammer are both pretty cool. They’re kinda like Star Trek (except the opposite).

Anyways.

!battletech@lemmy.world

!warhammer40k@lemmy.world

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