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Corgana

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/r/StarTrek founder and primary steward from 2008-2021

Currently on the board of directors for StarTrek.website

  • Is Star Trek Discovery that bad?

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  • • Nihilistic, apocalyptic future

    Do you have any examples of the Nihilism? I'm struggling to think of any... In fact Season 3 was about maintaining optimism and faith in the strength of the Federation against unbelievable odds.

    • Bad guys that are just bad, they’re evil, don’t ask questions

    Khan, Gul Dukat and the Clown from Voyager were all in Discovery?

    • One principal star of the show that is the focus of nearly every episode

    I agree that there was a main character, but I also enjoy a lot of media with a main character so I don't see that as a bad thing.

    • No attempt to explain things with any veneer of science

    I suggest you avoid watching TNG and TOS because they do the same thing!

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  • Discovery gets a lot of selective criticisms in online spaces. I don't want to say it has anything to do with being the first Star Trek show with a Black female as a central main character, but Burhnam does seem to be more frequently criticized for behaviors that are celebrated when done by someone like Kirk or Riker.

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  • There’s no doubt reactions to Discovery have been mixed.

    I feel it's important to note that a lot of the "reactions" we see today are the result of coordinated review-bombing campaigns by "anti-woke" outrage-peddling youtubers.

    That's not to say it's universally beloved among Trekkies online, just that for someone trying to suss out the "reception" is going to have a difficult time separating authentic reviews from inauthentic ones.

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  • Protip: "STD" is not the official abbreviation for Discovery, it's "DSC". If you call it "STD" people are going to assume you watch those outrage bait youtubers who complained about how Discovery was "too woke".

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  • She is the Mariest Sue who ever Mary Sued.

    For clarity's sake, a Mary Sue describes a character who can do no wrong. This is how it's described on TVTropes:

    [A Mary Sue] is exceptionally talented in an implausibly wide variety of areas, and may possess skills that are rare or nonexistent in the canon setting. She also lacks any realistic, or at least story-relevant, character flaws.

    I'm curious how you square that description of a Mary Sue with Burhnam's many regular, repeated, failures and flaws as seen on screen and described in the dialogue? As one example, her character is introduced in the very first episode as a misguided mutineer and is demoted for it.

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  • Honestly, when I hear that interpretation it makes me feel like the person didn't actually watch the season, they just watched the outrage peddling influencers online.

    Semi-related but I lost count of the number of times someone on Reddit described Adira's coming out (a ten second moment in a larger unrelated scene) as a "huge story arc" or being comprised of "multiple episodes" being "shoved in the audiences faces". I felt like I was taking crazy pills until I learned that's exactly how the outrage-tubers were presenting it. If you'd never watched the season you'd have no idea it was such an inconsequential moment.

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  • It's also important to separate what you're seeing online from the leftovers of a manufactured "opposition campaign" orchestrated by a handful of reactionary influencers.

    Personally speaking I did not like the early two seasons, but I thought three is ok, and seasons four and five I consider to be some of Trek's best!

  • 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Needs to Imagine More for Its Female Characters

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  • Well said, there's criticism and then there's jumping in to give an opinion.

  • How does someone get a splinter on a starship?

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  • I was about to make the joke "They get splinters very well, thank you" but then I realized what community this is, so I won't make the joke.

  • Just watched SNW 03.04 and that monologue by "Joni Gloss" about inspiring generations... it touched me

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  • Agreed!

  • Just watched SNW 03.04 and that monologue by "Joni Gloss" about inspiring generations... it touched me

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  • I liked that moment too. This episode fell a bit flat for me overall, but I appreciated what they were trying to get at.

  • Can we please stop arguing about whether Bluesky is decentralized?

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  • I haven't seen much arguing, it is unquestionably centralized and for profit. There truly is nothing unique about it.

    I'm not an expert with the AT protocol but it really seems like what Dorsey and co have made is a super complicated protocol that (under specific conditions that cannot exist in the real world), has the potential to be federated in a meaningful way. That way they can steal all the talking points of the fediverse and muddy the meaning of words.

    There are also a lot of people on Fedi who will seek out threads like these to explain how line 2532 of the AT protocol handbook explains how having 100% of users on a single server is actually decentralized but I'm sure they're all authentic accounts.

  • Memory Alpha has an entry for "Slap" and it's tagged under "Medicine" 😂

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  • In 2133 scientists actually discover the surprising health benefits of a good slap

  • ‘Star Trek: Enterprise’ Cast On How Series Was Last Hurrah For “Boys Club” TV Before Me Too Movement

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  • Some impressive gymnastics going on with the guy you're replying to...

    What I remember people saying about Enterprise at the time was along the lines of "hadn't they learned their lesson with Voyager?" 7 of 9's outfit was an embarrassing thing non-trekkies would point to when characterizing Trek fans as "virgin nerds".

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  • On Reddit we actually had a rule that it was OK to ask "where do I start" or "how do I get my friend into Star trek" questions because someone would inevitably complain about "this again". As if:

    • Trekkies don't love answering this question
    • The existing Star Trek discussion boards on the internet weren't gatekeepey enough...

  • Left-Wing Extremism on the Decentralized Web: Fediverse's Lemmygrad.ml endorses authoritarian regimes, Russia's invasion of Ukraine, exhibits anti-Zionist and antisemitic rhetoric, study reveals

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  • "The decentralized web" ...so... "the web"? Do they not realize literally anyone, even extremists, can make a Lemmy instance with spare parts and a wifi connection?

    Left-wing extremists have been showing “substantial activity on Lemmygrad"

    "Left wing extremists have been showing substantial activity on the website that was literally built for that type of content" What's next? They "investigate" the amount of Trekkie related activity on StarTrek.website?

    I think a far more interesting research subject is looking into the number of ostensibly non-extremist instances are hosting extremist content by virtue of federation.

  • The "Disneyfication" of Doctor Who: Is it real?

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  • Disney is such a massive conglomerate at this point, I don’t even know what that vibe would be

    Safe and unchallenging. Entertaining without much depth that you forget about shortly after.

    To be clear I agree with you and don't think this is happening with Who, just that it is a thing to look out for.

  • Steve Huffman's straw man: "[Reddit's most devoted volunteers] used to tell us not to grow."

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  • Funny how the platform still runs on their unpaid labor, isn’t it?

    Something I learned during the Vaxxhappened protest is just how many moderators are perfectly content to do these "jobs". I found it honestly very sad how many of these what are ostensibly "community leaders" will happily acquiescence to the demands desires of the company as long as they can continue to do the job.

    Don't get me wrong I have a lot of sympathy for many of the moderators there who care deeply about their communities and providing a welcoming experience and feel stuck to Reddit, but until more of them grow a spine and idk, move to Lemmy or something like the top r/startrek and r/daystrominstaitute mods did (not me to be clear) then nothing of substance will change there. There is a seeming endless supply of people willing to clean up Reddit for free.

  • Hair Tutorial: Captain Pike's Peak

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  • Star Trek Social Club @startrek.website
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    Help us finish the Canvas!

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    Which TOS episode was this?

  • Fediverse @lemmy.ml
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    Mastodon rolls out built-in bylines for journalists in the fediverse

    www.theverge.com /2024/7/2/24191049/mastodon-built-in-bylines-journalists-fediverse
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    You know things are getting real when a Starfleet officer takes off their jacket.

    gizmodo.com /star-trek-undershirt-janeway-sisko-picard-prodigy-1851554502
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    "Dilithium and You" a classic from '95

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    name this spinoff

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    She must know the truth

  • Quark's @startrek.website
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    In honor of the late William Anders, here's a really great video on the "Earthrise" photo and how improbable it is that we have it at all

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    When someone asks why I'm playing the Discovery finale at 1/4 speed.

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    TNG v DS9

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    DS9 The Visitor

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    There can only be one!

  • Star Trek Social Club @startrek.website
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    The Flight of the Phoenix illustrated in the style of a NASA infographic.

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    Finally, fans are getting what they've been demanding for years, a crossover event between the Kelvinverse and... World of Tanks

    trekmovie.com /2024/05/01/star-trek-event-coming-to-world-of-tanks-online-game-watch-mission-preview/
  • Risa @startrek.website
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    Trek Beverages Rap (from the same girl who made the Treknobabble rap vid!)

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    Locked

    George Takei was on Colbert yesterday

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    “Untitled Star Trek Origin Story” film officially added to Paramount Pictures' 2025-2026 lineup.

    trekmovie.com /2024/04/11/paramount-pictures-officially-confirms-star-trek-origin-movie-for-its-upcoming-film-slate/
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    A good Sonequa Martin-Green interview with Stephen Colbert

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    Totality lasts for about 20 episodes

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    unnoteworthy TOS scene