Comment on Is there a Lower Decks community?

Corgana@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• LillyPip@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Is a community for each series excessively specific, though?

  Some of them have very different fan bases (thinking TOS vs Voyager, or anything vs the obviously superior Enterprise.)

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  • andthenthreemore@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    With the size of the community here? Yes very much.

    It might be worth it if here gets as big as Reddit.

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  • Stamets@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I mean… They’re really not that different. They’re till Trek fans who prefer a different flavor of Trek. Star Trek is pretty consistent in the image that it puts forward and that doesn’t change very much per series. Plus, one of the worst things about reddit is the ability to have hyper specific subreddits for anything. They all end up causing an echo chamber and end up being not that encouraging to new members. I really don’t wanna see that happen to the Trek communities here on lemmy.

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    • SARGEx117@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I wholeheartedly agree with everything you said, EXCEPT that they’re not that different. I think most of the shows have a very unique tone, especially when you go from TNG to DS9, but unless I’m mistaken DS9 was intended to be “different”.

      Maybe a few of the new ones are pretty similar, that’s for sure. But the older ones? Nah.

      But I’m not looking for an echo of what I just said, so by all means if anyone wants to disagree with me, by all means! I don’t get a chance to talk about trek outside of the internet and I’d love to hear other takes on them.

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      • Stamets@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yeah, your edit is right there. The fans are essentially all the same but with different preferences. The shows all have their own vibe and tone that are pretty different. Well I’d argue that TNG and VOY are very close in tone but that’s about it.

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  • abbadon420@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This instance and community it doing well, but is far from the half million base on the old place.

    The mods have been really positive towards establishing new communities as volumes pick up. Many of us would like to see the one for Treklit (books and comics) split of, but we just don’t have the numbers to make those kinds of communities viable yet.

    Also, there’s really benefits to a crosscutting discussion. Things are civil enough here that it’s working.

    We see a lot of people here finally becoming persuaded to give shows they’d passed on a try, including Lower Decks.

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  • SARGEx117@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    For now, given the size of the user base? Yes.

    Will it be forever?

    I pray to the Black Mountain Koala, NO.

    With a fairly small amount of people, splitting up the fanbase seems counterproductive.

    Besides, us lower-decker gotta stick together, unless it’s delta shift (who really think Enterprise was the peak)

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    • LillyPip@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Excellent points.

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  • Piecemakers3Dprints@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Cheeky.

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