Every single large server in this federation has at least one Star Trek community. There is even an entire server dedicated to Star Trek.

Not only that, these communities are some of the most active I’ve ever seen. There is no other franchise I know of that dominates the federation as much as Star Trek does.

So, what’s the correlation with Lemmy and Star Trek? Why not other sci-fi series? Please, are there any connections?? Is this all coincidental?

  • InputZero@lemmy.ml
    14·
    7 months ago

    Part of me thinks half of the reason Stargate did so well was because of the culture of the post-9/11 world. Westerners and Americans in particular got to watch SG1 fight people who looked what they thought terrorists looked like. Admittedly they’re not Muslims they’re more akin to Ancient Egyptians aliens. Insofar as Western culture in the early 2000s the early season villains are Muslim adjacent. I don’t think it was intentional, the movie came out long before 9/11. It was just in the right place at the right time. The show got a lot better once the Gua’uld and the Jaffa weren’t the villains of the week.

    • barsoap@lemm.ee
      5·
      7 months ago

      Stargate premiered 1997, it was already well-established in 2000. The Nox are introduced in s01e08, Asgard in s01e10. Season 5 is the first one which could have 9/11 influence, It’s mopping up the Jaffa rebellion and Osiris and Anubis are introduced but there’s plenty of non-Gua’uld episodes. Oh, and Wormhole X-Treme!.