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Dear Lemmy, why Star Trek?? (programming.dev)

submitted 10 months ago by actual_patience@programming.dev to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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?

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[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 33 points 10 months ago

To me, Trek is a mash of three great communities, each nerdy in their own way:

Science-fiction, specifically optimistic mid-century science fiction.
Theatre / Drama
Revolutionary Socialism

This article scratches the surface of it.

[-] actual_patience@programming.dev 6 points 10 months ago

Thank you for the article. I'll need to look more into this in the future.

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