Two years ago during the big /r/NNN protest I met major resistence from other reddit mods in regards to taking our subreddits private. I knew someone had to stick their neck out first if we were going to get the Reddit admins to care about our protest. Many mods were worried about upsetting their users by making waves.
I slept on the decision and woke up early thinking to myself "Wait a minute, these are Trekkies I'm dealing with, the most rambunctious group of policically nerdy fans I can think of. Trekkies stand up to bullies and they do it together. Of course they'll stand by us if we do this."
I reached out to the Daystrom mods asking if they'd join us in going private and they were immediatley in. Same for Risa and the Discovery mods and many other mods of many small Trek subs.
While the protest didn't achieve the goals I wanted and I ultimatley quit the site altogether, we definitley made some big waves, and it was all because Trekkies weren't afraid to do what's right, it really stuck with me the power fans of a "silly 60 year old TV show" can have.
For someone that has never watched any star trek what should I start off watching?
I'd suggest going through a list of the best TNG episodes
I feel like I should like it, but its episodic nature completely ruins it for me.
Deep Space 9 is the first ST show to have season long arcs peppered with self-contained episodes. Since someone else already mentioned Discovery, I think DS9 is a pretty good jumping on point for "classic" Trek.
Discovery is the first Trek show that isn't episodic. Each episode has their own arc. Could use that as a jumping off point to discover things you find interesting and then watch episodes of other shows central to that.
I got myself a career where nerd is a prerequisite, and a nerdophilic gf. Nerd and proud!
Picard on one shoulder, Garak on the other shoulder
Riker on the bed with his pants off
A lot of nerds became doctors and aerospace scientists and stuff because of Star Trek
Negative and positive influence is very real from entertainment, no matter how some people deny it.
Trek has by and large been a positive influence on a lot of people.
trek hasn't been about any of that shit for at least a couple decades. It's just star wars with a coat of paint at this point
Is "nerd" such a negative thing anymore? Seems like its been watered down to mean "I play at least one video game".
I use the term "classic nerd" for what was once "nerd" because I havent found another word that covers it.
Idk but I now react like they said the N word and I gaslight them into feeling bad for using a slur.
Hilarious
