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Lemmy isn't what I expected but I love this place

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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lemmy.ml

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.

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Grayoxreply
lemmy.ml

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.

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If you ever get to Strange New Worlds and Discovery, they flesh out The Menagerie in all kinds of interesting ways. My only complaint is that they didn't make Vina look deformed enough when she appeared.

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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.

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infosec.pub

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.

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Grayoxreply
lemmy.ml

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

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infosec.pub

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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Do a reaction post for or during each episode! As a longtime fan it’s fun hearing what people thought about it for the first time

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Not sure, i just googled, dont have time to count them all myself lol so damn many

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lemmy.zip

If you're looking for a way to start, Next Generation (TNG) is a good entry point, though you might want to start with season 3 (it's when it really started to feel polished). If you like that then Voyager is similarly episodic and easy to watch, though the writers could've treated some of the characters a little better in that. Modern episodic trek is Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks, also both immediately fun and easy to get into.

Deep Space 9 is what started trek on having longer serialized arcs, and Enterprise also has long story lines (the entirety of season 3 was one arc).

And I'll probably get some disagreement for this, but despite having grown up on trek and watched almost everything that's out there (I think I just have 1 or 2 seasons of Discovery left), I've never really been able to watch much of the original series. It just feels way too dated for me. Maybe if the guys over at the Greatest Generation podcast pick it up I'll try to work through it.

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I wanted to start with TNG but my partner insisted on starting at the beginning, that being said its been really fun watching tropes get introduced, like Kirk getting his shirt ripped and bones saying, "I'm a doctor not a -----" its really good if you even slightly enjoy campy stuff and has gotten tons of laughs from us as we watch it. But yeah TNG is the best place to start imo.

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lemmy.world

Same here actually. Halfway through the first season of TNG. Happy to have something to binge. Also going to switch to Linux in the neat future.

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I did the math a while back it's well over a thousand hours for all the series and movies. With the recent surge in new properties, it's going to be much higher than what I came up with even a few years ago.

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startrek.website

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).

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hakunawazoreply
lemmy.world

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

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lemmy.world

Who couldn't use a Jonathan Archer once in a while?

..what were we talking about?

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Computer, end program.

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"Authorization denied"

Sudo computer end program

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

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Buffaloafreply
lemmy.world

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

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Shit like this is why I started using imgur alongside Lemmy. They're no better than reddit was, but I need my memes.

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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.

Yeah I tried a WSB themed instance. Lemmy really isn't set up to support this. Its a pretty critical issue with how its engineered and can't really be fixed in the current structure.

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

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SSTFreply
lemmy.world

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

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Okay, I'll tell you it's insufficiently nerdy. How about a game that's been played since 1983 and has just gotten to the second turn?

The only game that came with its own protractor. I'm not joking.

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lemmy.world

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

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

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lemmy.world

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

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idunnololzreply
lemmy.world

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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MacOS, you mean Unix with a wallpaper? While Unix is not Linux, BSD is open source so it's nice!

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Squizzyreply
lemmy.world

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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Squizzyreply
lemmy.world

I enjoyed the ramp up, it was DS9 I couldn't get into at all. Gave up a few episodes in. Haven't tried Voyager sequentially yet but I liked some episodes. Discovery sucked except for Isaacs. I liked SNW.

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Oh, sorry to hear that. DS9 gets pretty good later on - especially the "middle" is great, testing out the limits of the world/starfleet ethics. I think it's my favorite trek... (second being TNG, watched that growing up). Maybe give DS9 another chance and just jump in somewhere after Season 1...

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Join the league communities and start discussions! They could use more conversation. I'm resuming after not playing in a long time myself, probably because I decided to watch LCS when someone told me that a team besides C9 or TL won last split.

It'll take me some time to catch up on all these changes, though lol. Hopefully the pro seasons resuming helps.

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x4740Nreply
lemmy.world

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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psudreply
lemmy.world

You sound ready to spring your "but you can do that in Linux" trap

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sh.itjust.works

I have no regrets joining

I use Arch btw - live long and prosper lemmings

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r00tyreply
kbin.life

I'm on mbin BTW. The fediverse arch.

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lemmy.world

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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AlolanYodareply
mander.xyz

I'm from a planet around the star Betelgeuse. Drink up, you're going to need it for what I'm about to tell you.

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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.

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lemmy.world

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.

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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.

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lemmy.world

Is Snot Flickerman a pseudonym for Scott Aukerman? Because it sure sounds like one.

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lemmy.blahaj.zone

I'm not Scott Aukerman, I'm just one of his many names....

TrickShotterman, AfterShockerman, ShockJockerman, YachtRockerman, Blog Gawkerman, Stop Clockerman, Flip Flopperman, Crop Circleman, Flash Backerman, Bob Johnson.... Oh wait.

I like to think of Snot Flickerman as one of those newscasters played by Tom Kenny.

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syd
lemy.lol

And so much porn with strange fantasies.

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Basic rule of any new tech, first geeks, then porn and after that the normal people

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sydreply
lemy.lol

But it doesn’t shown like Lemmy. I’ve never seen bondage as much as this before 💀😄

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hemkoreply
lemmy.dbzer0.com

Lucky you hehe

No but really it's a good idea to block lemmynsfw on your main and it will reduce the amount of porn on your feed by 99%

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fossphireply
lemm.ee

But that's no fun. I want to be surprised by the occasional bondage

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lemm.ee

And nobody mentioned beans?

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

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klemptorreply
startrek.website

Until you get your illness sorted out (and hopefully that's soon!), prune juice could help - after all, it is a warrior's drink!

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Thank you. I tried it. I can't stand the stuff. I've been drinking V8 though, so hopefully that will help.

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lemm.ee

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

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Love the star trek memes. And like all things linux, i understand like 20% and the rest goes over my head

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Aww. Great meme. I do my part and try to post pictures in ![email protected] and ![email protected] every few days.

Once I'm done posting all my pictures, in a few months, I will probably repost them to a pictures community on Lemmy for more people to see.

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I have RSS feeds for the top Reddit and Lemmy posts and Lemmy always has the best memes.

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lemmy.world

" wait it's just people pushing weird politics and a bunch of nsfw stuff and even the posts that seem good have some weird secondary agenda and other weird shit"

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