Oh wow, Pacha as Riker is surprisingly hot. I was not expecting that.

Old.reddit still exists

Wow, that’s more his colour for sure.

Fuck yes. And he looks chuffed.

Imagining him riding round DS9 like this is entertaining, Quark would fucking piss himself.

Aw man, Odo on the Komodo was right there.

Mariner but on like 10% energy.

I didn’t realise how much I was relying on his (lack of) hairline to recognise him, till I got to the bottom row and couldn’t figure out who the guy in the middle was.

Liking Trek means being good at coming up with and or accepting established fan cannon explanations/excuses for why stuff happens, as often it makes infuriatingly little sense otherwise.

DS9 is the strongest of the older shows in my opinion and gives a really good grounding for the politics of the Federation and unfederated alien races involved (and for new trek shows like Disco and Lower Decks), while having enough plot and action to be interesting.

It still has a lot of bad acting and poor writing (especially in the first few seasons, ugh) and it’s practically a radio play for seasons at a time though, so be warned.

And if you’re still a fan after that but want something more serious, watch Babylon 5.

VXJunkies used to be my jam for realistic sounding technical gibberish back when I was doing rpgs. It’s worth a look if you need any.

If you’re a white guy you’re unlikely to see or be on the recieving end of bigotry from these types of people.

The trek boards on reddit were vile when Discovery came out, if anyone remembers that? Hundreds of pissed off trek fans adamant that a black woman should not be the main character and hating that there were no men on the bridge. And even before then the asian wife jokes, misogyny and rape jokes about Keiko were a regular occurence.

The show writers making episodes like the Kira porn holonovel also didn’t help, Quark should have been kicked off the station for that. It’s not very star trek to let sexual harrassment happen so blatently, is it? Oh wait, yeah no it was fine. Slap on the wrists, no big deal. Is it surprising that some viewers of the show took that moral lesson to heart because ‘trek is a bastion of good and can do no wrong’? Bashir skulking around begging Dax for a date and monologing about winning his prize, was creepy as fuck too.Trek is so pure though, men who behave like that must be ok because it was in trek! Amirite?

You guys need to keep in mind there’s a huge cross over between nerds and incels, and between star trek fans and old white guys who like imagining white guys in charge of exploring space and getting to fuck all the alien women.

Trek nerds can be shit people too. You aren’t immune just because the show you like has some morals.

Idk, this gets a pass from me. More so before all the new shows came out though, those are easy to love.

The old stuff is difficult to get into though, and there is usually a lot of bad writing, poor production values and terrible acting to get past before it starts getting good.

And sadly a lot of 60’s and 90’s Trek fans are bigoted old men, which is another mark against the show for anyone with a passing interest who’s met a Trekkie of this caliber irl or looked into fan spaces online.

Wishing you a good year ahead! You’re appreciated here.

And I agree with you, this is the nicest Star Trek community I’ve found too.

It took me a while to realise but I’m no longer bracing myself for racism or sexism every time I click on a trek post here!

Pretty sure sexism plays a huge role in why Voyager was disliked so much.

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Babylon 5 is brilliant and you should really give it another shot.

@Amputret thank you!

Eh they cracked down hard on all queer and trans stuff to the point of banning users over posting fully clothed selfies, but hetro cis stuff is still everywhere.
The pornbots have been around for years but they’ve ramped up big time since Tumblr Live came online.

I didnt visit my tumblr for a week and acquired 30 new pornbot followers.
Tumblr Live and all the new algorithm fuckery is really messing up the site : (

Wait till he starts cooking the Tribbles.