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I will be changing this immediately.

It might as well be in my home too. My wife and I aren't religious, so we may have snuck a few subtle trek things into our wedding ceremony.

It looks like this is the Hallmark ornament from 2015, so the only option might be ebay.

Dream rules also apply to the holodeck: never use any toilets you find.

Now I'm imagining someone legitimately putting their Jan6 involvement on a resume.

Window Structural Integrity Tester (Jan 6th, 2021): Responsibilities included - unconventional team-building activities, conditioning, navigating unfamiliar territory, and breaking down barriers.

Lol, you mean you didn't like them singing Row Row Row Your Boat around the campfire? Or Uhura's sexy fan dance? How about Scotty running into a crossbeam like he's in the Three Stooges?

It seems like such a creative way to do social commentary. We get to see our present failings in aliens, and then contrast it with how the crew (future humanity) carries themselves. Sometimes it's very clunky and heavy handed (like that TOS episode with the half-white/half-black aliens), but it's still good. My favorites are every time Picard monologues about their values to an alien race in TNG.

Even if you already share the values, it's fascinating to hear them laid out so clearly.

Oh yeah, it's TV for sure. The original ran from 1966-69 with 79 episodes, and that was going to be it because they had never heard of a "fandom" before.

Then, they realized that people were showing up to conventions and obsessing over the show, so they finally made the first movie in 1979 and then started the next show in the 80s (which ran for like 140-150 episodes).

The TV series is the main draw, with any movies along the way just being a bonus.

Absolutely. I'd even say it's media in general. TV shows, movies, advertisements. They will always get as close as legally allowed.

That sounds like such a an awesome early internet thing.

The Star Trek TV shows are far superior to any of the movies anyway.

Even starting with the original series' movies, they tried to make them more action-y than philosophical to appeal to a broader audience, and while they're a lot of fun, I rewatch the shows WAY more for a reason.

The Star Trek community has been going strong for nearly 60 years for a reason - Star Trek rocks.

When it started in the 60s (and continued especially strong with TNG in the 80s), it was unique in depicting a hopeful look at how things could be rather than a reflection of how things are, differing from how most shows do social commentary. It's refreshing.

Star Trek is attractive to people who want to see a world where people work together toward great things in a post-scarcity utopia, with current day conversations of race, nationality, sex, gender, etc. being so far in the rear-view mirror that they're non-issues. Plus cool technology. I think that appeals to the Lemmy crowd.

Also credited with the first widespread fanfics of a TV show, I believe.

Without intentional effort to prevent it, every platform eventually becomes some level of this.

Youtube: remember when they had to scrap "reply" videos because they were all borderline NSFW spam?

Onlyfans: was originally intended to be a platform for fans of fashion, idols, etc. I guess they just embraced it since then.

Tumblr: banned NSFW content because they thought they were becoming a porn site and didn't want to moderate that.

Reddit: Segregated it and relies on community moderation, because otherwise it's like half of the front page.

Twitter: it's still all over, under most popular posts. I don't know if they moderate it out or not.

Maybe little badges? Or holding clipboards?

Good catch! I wonder if it can do dates...

@remindme@mstdn.social RemindMe April 30th, 2042

Oof, I think that's when you go with the other spouse's name, regardless of tradition.

(Or maybe hers was worse?)

@remindme@mstdn.social RemindMe 19 years

...I haven't had my tea yet and started to respond seriously. Haha