• bobbyfiend@retrolemmy.com
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    13 days ago

    I’ve never personally seen a gaggle of 18-40-year-old star trek fans explaining unironically how the Borg did nothing wrong.

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      11 days ago

      Empire did nothing wrong is such a fascinating joke. Because it was and mostly today still IS a joke. An obvious one. They are the baddies. But then we entered a political moment where it people started sliding into the sub that were doing it in earnest.

      See also prequelmemes which started off as a subreddit dedicated to making fun of and dunking on the prequels and overtime became a place where people would honestly defend.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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      10 days ago

      Isn’t it sort of beta cannon that the Borg are the products and the voyager space probe? In some convoluted not very well thought out way, I think it got sent back in time or something?

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    13 days ago

    As true as it is, it’s not a monolith. ND Republican candidate Corey Johnson is supposedly a huge star trek nerd and I’ve been planning his assassination.

    This is a joke btw

  • nocturne@slrpnk.net
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    12 days ago

    Pre-Discovery I might agree, but now the majority of trek fans are just as toxic.

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      11 days ago

      I wouldnt say a majority but yeah there are a lot of trek fans who are were also pulling the “why you gota make everything political!” card . Nothing really tops the poop whirlpool that was the last jedi fallout.

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    12 days ago

    I think the only ones who wouldn’t inherently trust a Star Trek fan over a Star Wars fan are the Child Exploitation Section of the Toronto Sex Crimes Unit circa 2005.