LtLiana
@LtLiana@startrek.website
- Comment on I just want to set a timer for MY FOOD WINDOWS WHY? 1 year ago:
“I just want to avoid a problem I made up”
- Comment on Researching alcohol interventions for a friend. I’ve seen more ads for alcohol than ever in my life 1 year ago:
I have to agree here, there’s a pub around the corner here (Germany) that consistently gives away free beer to recovering alcoholics because they think it’s the funny and manly thing to do.
- Comment on I just want to set a timer for MY FOOD WINDOWS WHY? 1 year ago:
For a reason.
- Comment on An oldie but a goodie 1 year ago:
Sexual harassment is not funny just because the victim is a straight guy. If this happened to a woman, everyone would be rightfully up in arms.
- Comment on Mike McMahan Calls On Fans To Help Keep ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ From Facing The Same Fate As ‘Prodigy’ 1 year ago:
Yarr, her head full of goo.
- Comment on Star Trek: very Short Treks | "Walk, Don't Run" 1 year ago:
I feel so talked down to by these. They’re even more unfunny/more quippy than the first season of Orville, and that’s saying something.
Why can’t some writers these days not just let something absurd be played straight and let the viewers laugh? Why do we need a character explaining the joke out loud? “Uh-oh, that alert isn’t part of the song! Guyss!” How to ruin a decently funny situation in one easy step.
Imagine if movies like “The Naked Gun”/“Police Squad” or “Airplane!” made the characters explain and comment on every funny moment.
- Comment on Does Star Trek Need Starfleet? 1 year ago:
That’s difficult, honestly. Most of the novels I read don’t put much of a focus on the societies they live in, more on the characters or cool phenomena. I personally liked the depiction of Earth in the Department of Temporal Investigation novel series (which, by the way, is excellent anyway), but even that wasn’t very specific.
As for fan fiction, I personally try to write much more plausible fiction that doesn’t take “human-ish” patterns for granted; e. g. some of the species we explore don’t even form nation states, I put more of a focus on non-humanoids, I try to make Starfleet and Federation names and representation equally distributed among member species (e. g. no USS Einstein, but instead like USS Rogra jav Baur, after the Tellarite diplomat), and look at super underrepresented peoples, subcultures, professions and areas to flesh them out a bit. I also assume that in the future we are talking about, important places are all over Earth, not just in the USA and Europe. Like, the hero ship freighter that I am writing about currently is called the SS Kyakhta, after the Russia-China trade route in the late middle ages. The Captain is a non-binary elderly Kaferian. And the only human crewmate is from Daşoguz, Turkmenistan; which developed into quite a bustling center for high-quality engineering schools.
But I haven’t read much other fan fiction with the same values; most Trek fan fiction is centered around the main characters of the shows, usually in a romantic or sexual manner. Not that that’s bad, I just wish there was more general, plausible-for-a-show fiction too.
- Comment on Annotations for *Star Trek: Lower Decks* 4x05: “Empathalogical Fallacies” (SPOILERS) 1 year ago:
The more content, the more people check regularly, the more content. It’s a cycle. Because there’s not much there currently, there aren’t many people. We all have a duty to post things.
- Comment on Does Star Trek Need Starfleet? 1 year ago:
When I write fan fiction I make a point out of exploring parts of the Trek universe we have not seen at all or only very little of. It’s very fun, especially because you can finally subvert some of the more illogical things, like why almost every species seems to be monocultural under one flag and name with one home planet that’s named after the species, why humanity is so over-represented in the Federation, why there are no spacefaring nation states, and all.
- Comment on Does Star Trek Need Starfleet? 1 year ago:
Plus given the track record of how the Federation is represented in recent Trek especially, I don’t trust them to portray actual paradise.
In Picard we constantly see car-centric Americanized cities, the FNN just being a thinly veiled once-again American CNN clone, everything’s about the West and its culture again (this was already bad in old Trek, like why San Fran and Paris are the most important cities and how the Xindi weapon fucked up the USA instead of literally any other place on Earth). It’s like they think being in space and having technology makes paradise, and culture wouldn’t change at all.
I trust single novel authors more than huge production companies and writing rooms.
- Comment on Does Star Trek Need Starfleet? 1 year ago:
Moneyless society doesn’t mean a post-scarcity society. There’s clearly poverty on some Federation fringe worlds. Only Earth and the other core worlds really are paradise. The others have always been implied to work towards their bettering but not being quite there yet.
- Comment on Open for discussion 1 year ago:
This blog post makes a point about how the strength of the Fediverse is that things can be decentralized into topic-specific instances instead of general use communities.
I am on StarTrek.Website. We only host Star Trek communities. It is much nicer there than on Lemmy.World.
- Comment on Open for discussion 1 year ago:
It wasn’t this way before. Lemmy had existed for years before Eternal September.
- Comment on Trek Lit, Novels & Fan Fiction Recommendation Thread! 1 year ago:
I’ll start:
If you love the Department of Temporal Investigations and resolving all kinds of one-off time-related plot lines, check out the DTI novel series, starting with Watching The Clock!
- Submitted 1 year ago to startrek@startrek.website | 3 comments
- Comment on Canon-friendly Klingon flags that I can fly publicly? 1 year ago:
I mean, it’s a red flag with a white circle in the middle featuring an abstract bold black symbol in the middle. Any German including me sees it as a nazi flag immediately.
- Comment on Treklit/Novelverse: how to get up to speed on the lore? 1 year ago:
No?
- Comment on Canon-friendly Klingon flags that I can fly publicly? 1 year ago:
That is the entire point of the post. I was not talking about the red-white-black standard one.
- Comment on Canon-friendly Klingon flags that I can fly publicly? 1 year ago:
By all means, have you read any of the post? That’s the entire point.
- Comment on Treklit/Novelverse: how to get up to speed on the lore? 1 year ago:
But every single The Fall novel is written by someone else. Characters like Blackmer or President Bacco are important in the books I read even though they originate in completely different novels. It seems to me like they are all vastly interconnected.
- Comment on Treklit/Novelverse: how to get up to speed on the lore? 1 year ago:
Oh that’s great! Thank you!
- Comment on Treklit/Novelverse: how to get up to speed on the lore? 1 year ago:
Yeah, I assumed so too, but I don’t know which novels are particularly relevant to the continuity I am actually interested in. Continuity and canon are very important for me since I hold the Trek universe dear to my heart and it is “real” to me to an extent - so obvious continuity errors are jarring and dejecting. There’s hundreds of TOS novels for example that don’t have any bearing on the DS9 relaunch series.
Which ones do I read by publication date? Are the numbered Pocket Books TNG novels relevant or not? The TNG relaunch? Titan?
- Comment on I'm sorry but Very Short Treks is horrible 1 year ago:
I just honestly recommend sticking to everything ENT and before these days, and if you want something new and exciting in the canon, I’d start reading the myriads of novels in the lit verse (although those are hit or miss).
All of these attempts at making Star Trek some kind of middle-of-the-road relatable mainstream-appeal quippy entertainment franchise is the exact opposite of what it should be in times like these. Star Trek in 2023 should be written, directed, produced and acted by a radically progressive counterculture to the right-wing swing across the world, attract major controversies and boycotts by conservatives and network executives to the point they wish they could blacklist actors for being commie sympathizers again. We need more Ira Steven Behr and Hans Beimler, and less JJ Abrams. We need more flawed, genuine working-class people like Bashir’s parents or Miles O’Brien, or General Martok or Damar, and less characters who are relatable to the upper-class yass-kween American writing rooms. We need an internationalist view on space politics again, not Elon Musk worship.
Instead, we get toilet humor, sanitized and Americanized versions of the future, and CIA apologism in the shape of a sympathetic Section 31 and the Federation engaging in regime changes. Not that golden age Trek was always better, but at least they tried. It’s just more of the same like DIS, PIC and SNW (Lower Decks is often fun though).
- Submitted 1 year ago to startrek@startrek.website | 17 comments
- Comment on Canon-friendly Klingon flags that I can fly publicly? 1 year ago:
Dunno, that just looks like an off-center misprint of the Japanese flag. :P
- Submitted 1 year ago to startrek@startrek.website | 15 comments