This is the most notable AMA I know of in Threadiverse history.
Lemmy is arguably more Star Trek than Reddit. It only makes sense.
Wait. Is there an LCARS lemmy frontend? We could really use that.
Lemmy needs a Victoria. I wonder if Victoria would be keen to fill the role?
She was so darn good!
I liked the series, even though it felt like its own thing. But when I finally got to the Jay-Den focused episode the whole thing immediately gave updated TNG vibes. The adults in the cast are excellent philosophy-heavy mentors and I find myself repeatedly rewinding their scenes to recontextualize their pearls in terms of my own life. If I had one gripe it’d be all the YA aspects, but I immediately retract that as I want the series to also appeal to the yutes. Tawny Newsome is my hero.
Prodigy was a series for kids that adults could watch. I like to think this is a series for teens and young adults that adults can watch.
But our youths are supposed to be in training to be functional non-youths. So much YA BS just revels in and normalizes silly immature nonsense because it creates drama. There’s no reason these characters can’t be strong role models that make less ridiculous decisions.
Like the weird drama between the complete stranger boy & girl who just met and spent the afternoon together. Being all ‘OMG you lied to me by not immediately telling me you had a long history of hardship and trauma that your still trying to resolve, which naturally influences your choices’.
That whole bit was just drama for the sake of drama, and horribly unrealistic and dysfunctional. She’s not just an empath, she’s a super empath! Who is apparently also extremely immature and horrifically unfamiliar with basic emotion or behavior or relationships or…
But then her dad is also a bit of a short-sighted dick.
Then there’s the fighting between ‘schools’…
Most of the time they act like a bunch of 5 year olds.
Then they also have moments where they seem so deep and emotionally mature.
There’s very little consistency to their characters.
And they are in Star Fleet Academy. It’s a college for the members of a galaxy spanning humanitarian program, not an elementary school. And it has understandably very militant rules about decorum and conduct, as it’s members are working to master skills needed to successfully explore space and navigate complex interactions with a wide variety of very different species.
I know, sure, young people tend to make more mistakes, but some of the random stuff they just drop in out of nowhere to create drama when it’s not needed, probably just to meet a formula regarding content type per minute of showtime, it’s just disappointing.
It doesn’t add to the story, and it’s even often discarded by the characters by the next scene and never referenced again.
The kinda TV that stuck with me, even as a kid, was more mature and more meaningful. Episode after episode they taught morals, gave examples of strong healthy character traits, showed cooperation and problem solving and leadership, gave viewers heros to look up to, even if they were just kids still themselves.
There wasn’t drama unless it added to the story, created opportunities to expand on, or build from, to enhance the intellectual experience, not just give viewers a cheap and fleeting emotional rollercoaster ride.
I mean, do we want our kids getting caught in unhealthy relationship cycles with others, or their own emotions?
Of course, personally, if I wasn’t watching Trek as a kid I was watching PBS Specials, Discover (before it became trash), old Sherlock Homes DVDs borrowed from the library, or reading non-fiction books and magazines, or actually building or crafting things in the real world. So, I dunno, maybe I just never was the target audience for these show runners.
Interpreted the Betazed as being analogous to bipolar. I interpreted the peaceful vs war schools to be representations of contrasting political parties. There’s so many more options now and short attention spans are being rewarded. Im happy to give the show time to grow its Riker beard.
shit we better vacuum.
Throw a sheet over the tankie cage
Ya know, for an AMA about Star Trek, they can have a seat on the couch for this one, too!
And flush the toilet!
sigh…
get the poop knife…
And my axe!
But seriously, if you use the axe to cleave poop, please disinfect it afterwards.
And floss!
I’m jaundiced so I’m never confident whether I’ve left urine in the toilet. Tis a tough life.
You have.
Yeah, that makes sense.
Our first big lemmy AMA for sure. Must be a few Mastodon ones conducted but anyway, great to see Karim Diané here!
George Takei is on Mastodon and has been for years, surely he would have done something.
I’m glad he does post, and it’s better than nothing, but I don’t see him interact on mastodon much. I think his posts are just mirrored from bluesky
Yeah. I’m a big fan of his, but his social media presence has always had the whiff of “professional social media team” about it.
Hmm interesting, I thought he’d been on Mastodon since well before Bluesky existed.
Well before Bluesky his mastodon posts were mirror of his twitter posts.
He doesn’t interact with people on mastodon.
He was, but probably moved their when it became clear that Bluesky was the winner of the 2022 Twitter exodus. At least for the time being.
gonna have to put on clothes
omg what!!! I am so damn excited!!!
I really like the show and I do genuinely think the fediverse is the most Star Trek thing ever… in a way that actually does the spirit of Star Trek justice warts and all.
Not even kidding, I think the fediverse is how message boards work on starships in Trek. Each ship has their own server, and as they pass within subspace range of one another, they federate. Probably most people even think it’s called “fediverse” because it’s how the Federation chats.
This is very cool!
wow, cool! I just watched episode 4 last night, so this is timely!
How do you link without leaving your instance?
Some clients do it automatically, but this should work: https://lemmyverse.link/startrek.website/post/35769143
Thank you, it redirected me that way.
noice. we’re starting to get some traction
Trying to link to it from any instance:
[email protected]/post/35769143edit: nope that doesn’t work :( can’t it be done, or it’s just that I don’t know how to?
It’s possible, you copy the post id and put a number in front of it, like the following:However, it doesn’t autoformat to a link (unfortunately). To do that you need to do regular links. IE:[link](#43294288@startrek.website)which produces this linkEdit: Damn it, messed this up, just a sec let me read some more.Looks like it’s simply not possible. There’s open github cases around this and this particular feature was just dropped. Shame, I’d have liked the #postId@site format.
A lot of clients will do it automatically. Voyager for instance.
Voyager
Apprpropriate for a Star Trek AMA :)
I prefer to refer to it as V’Ger, but you do you.
In the olden days it was called WefWef
That’s super cool. Hopefully this can be a nice boost.
@bdonvr what a day for the #Fediverse!
I’m sure you Mastodon users have more famous users.
That poor fool…
this isnt the cesspool, we can clean up for him
