LtLiana

@LtLiana@startrek.website

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: All social and cultural groups are diverse and hold people of many different views⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, that’s another thing. Especially common among “exiled Cubans”/Cuban immigrants, who all seem to talk shit about Cuba and support conservative anti-Cuba organizations - well duh, if they had liked it in their home country, they would not be in the US today.

  It’s a selection bias. It reminds me of the times transphobes started picking apart transfeminine subreddits detailing how much misogyny, hentai, sexualization and typically male socialization things like hardcore gaming, programming, fringe ideologies and “edgy dank memes” were common there and that it supposedly shows that trans women are only really men. Well, duh, you’re on Reddit! Probably the most male dominated mainstream social media site! It’s not a trans thing, it’s a Reddit thing, and by just looking at Reddit, you are just looking at a subset of people who were socialized male and stay in those socialization spots. If they went looking for transfeminine people on more traditionally feminine-dominated social media sites like Tumblr or Instagram, they would find a completely different group of people who might look at the Reddit community with animosity. It’s like looking at women on 4chan for women’s issues.

• YSK: All social and cultural groups are diverse and hold people of many different views
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• ⁨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 ⁨xkcd : Timeline of Temperature Changes on Earth⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If that’s your position, I don’t weep if your family gets killed in a nuclear accident.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After 60 years, it was nice to see myself (lol) up on the screen too⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t mean the political takes or anything, I meant more the super-stiff acting, the campy premises and the lacklustre “world building”, even though I dislike the term. All not the fault of the show at the time or anything, but I cannot enjoy any TOS rewatch these days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd : Timeline of Temperature Changes on Earth⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  As long as they are operated by for-profit entities who are more than willing to ignore safety procedures and best practices, and lobby for lower safeties, nuclear energy cannot be safe, regardless of the underlying technology.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After 60 years, it was nice to see myself (lol) up on the screen too⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  From campy 60s sci-fi written by a visionary, to upper class rich Hollywood writers’ ideas of “subversive” queerness? I feel more represented in the first one than in the advertisement in the second picture. Not by much though, TOS hasn’t aged well.

  DS9 is the pinnacle of queer Trek.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After 60 years, it was nice to see myself (lol) up on the screen too⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  TOS really hasn’t aged well, but Discovery isn’t even up that low bar.

• ⁨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 ⁨Just wanted to thank this community for helping me have the best birthday I've had in years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m glad! Happy (belated) birthday!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I? Who knows⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re the kind of guy to argue that when I cut a sandwich in half then there are two sandwiches.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I? Who knows⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Am I not the same person as I was yesterday?

  Sure, I am now different both to a molecular level and due to the experiences I have made since, but for all linguistic and social intents and purposes, I am the same person I was yesterday. Because “person” is already an arbitrary term we put on this collection of atoms merely based on continuity, like the Ship of Theseus. If we went by “spatial-temporal space”, then I would be space dust, a collection of bacteria, fluids, cells, proteins… and who “I” am would change every few seconds.

  The same is true for two Rikers. That’s the entire point of the episode; that despite them diverging at the point of the cloning into two different people, they are still the same person and need to live with that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I? Who knows⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Two people can be literally the same person. Your argument only works if there’s a magic law that says there can be only one real ‘you’.

• ⁨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 ⁨The wind does not respect clickbait.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  CBS just really, really wants to drive home the point that they loathe golden age Trek. From erasing Janeway, Dax, Kira et al from “strong women of Trek” (before Prodigy) to constantly reinventing the wheel, to this.

• ⁨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 ⁨Authors Are Furious After Finding Their Works on List of Books Used To Train AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey, computational linguist here who works with large language models. This is the most ridiculous thing I ever read.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Authors Are Furious After Finding Their Works on List of Books Used To Train AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Either we make all art a common freely licensed good and pay artists a flat solidarity wage to feed them, or we don’t do that and keep it how it is, but having a loophole exception for some AI corporations is not the way to go.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Authors Are Furious After Finding Their Works on List of Books Used To Train AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  “I’m not reselling your book, I am selling a machine that holds a mathematical formula that partly represents your entire book word for word and can reprint it on command!”

• ⁨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!

• Trek Lit, Novels & Fan Fiction Recommendation Thread!
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• ⁨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.