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Stamets@startrek.website 1 year agoI 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.
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.
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.
SARGEx117@lemmy.world 1 year ago
100% agree with Voyager. I think Picard would handle things with more restraint, and probably would have taken an additional few years to get home, but really it’s “exploration… with a twist”
I don’t know if we would have gotten protosalamander babies in tng, but then again we got sub rosa so…
Stamets@startrek.website 1 year ago
Pretty much. People give Janeway a lot of shit but I honestly think she takes her job as a Captain about as seriously as Picard. As well as their duty/oath to Starfleet. Doesn’t mean their perfect by a longshot but she deserves more credit than she gets. Took an insane amount of guts to (on multiple occasions) put the needs of the many against the needs of the few. Especially when those few were herself and the crew. Even more amazing when you see the times that the crew are given a chance to leave and no one does. Except Seska but we don’t talk about that Cardassian bitch.