1y ago

Am I Doing This Right?

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Riker = Horny, trombonist, scolds you for believing fake stories
Picard = Likes tea, traumatized by patio lights
Janeway = Murderous criminal
Sisko = The cooler murderous criminal
That about covers it.
- Don't forget the suffering Irishman.
  
  That’s not really science fiction though.
  
  Just a normal picture of a man using his laser razor. Gotta get a nice shave before his duty shift.
- Also all characters of all Star Trek shows are portrayed by Jeffrey Combs only.
  
  It's a popular one-man show that's been on since 1966.
  
  I’d unironically love to watch a Jeffrey Combs episode. Credit him as writer and producer etc for bonus Combs.
- She’s not a murderous criminal. She’s magnificent.
- I like your funny words, space man
- You forgot Janeway's coffee obsession and Data's obsession with stand-up comedy
  
  About her coffee obsession... let's just say it wasn't just coffee in that cup.
  
  Data's organ solo's pretty good too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45-zgojwMYo
- Don't forget
  Emperor Philippa Georgiou = Ruthless mommy in BDSM attire.
  Data = Pinocchio with dysfunctional family trauma
  Geordie = "Nice guy" with holo-waifu
  Ro Laren = The cool rebel with daddy issues
  
  Londo = space Hitler
  ... Shit, wrong magazine.
- Garek - insidious plotting / assassination / fashion advice
- Sisko = The cooler murderous criminal
  Come on now, The Thong Song isn't that bad.
  
  Um . . Don’t make me ask
- Janeway - murderous coffee-addicted criminal
  Sicko - murderous Klingon coffee-addicted criminal
  
  Sicko
- do archer and burnham XD
  
  Archer is a dog loving goofball who just is confused that he has the job.
  Burnham is from some weird non-canon antifan fiction.
  
  Archer is a secret agent who is afraid of alligators, crocodiles, and brain aneurysms. Burnham is a guy who healed the world with comedy from his bedroom.

Same. It's like the most active community on Lemmy
- Its the coolest instance.
  Why can't we have a instance for Linux
  
  iusearchlinux.fyi
  one of the best domains for an instance tbh
- It is really active, not as much as like the huge ones like memes or 196 but for the average sized ones it's huge

The shit in this community is hilarious even tho i havent watched a single star treck episode in my life.
- This sub made me start on Star Trek TNG. I'm finishing the show up this week. I don't regret a single thing. Thank you Lemmy!
- Same, never seen anything star trek related but the memes here are pretty good

Posts from this community popping up from time to time was actually what pushed me to start watching a few weeks ago. So, a big thank you to you all!
- Fantastic! Welcome to the franchise fandom family - large, argumentative but still fam.
  Also, this is one of the nicest, least toxic, places to talk to other fans.
- You have SO much amazing and interconnected content ahead of you, always so jealous of newcomers in that regard. No doubt you will enjoy 🖖
  Do yourself a favor tho, don’t watch the animated Lower Decks show until you’ve seen a good amount of trek series, the series is FILLED with old and new trek references/themes/stories that while still very enjoyable you won’t get everything. Although perhaps it would work in reverse and as you see in old trek what you saw in LD as a reverse reference haha

I watched all seasons of The Orville. Does that count for anything?
- That credit can be transferred as either the first season of Star Trek: Lower Decks or the Strange New Worlds Fantasy/Crossover/Musical episodes.
  
  I'll take it

So many people chiming in that they haven't watched Star Trek.
You monsters.
- Everyone knows Darth Vader is Frodos dad so no need to
  
  No, but he threatened to melt Marty McFly's dad's brains, and Marty later went on to show off his Wild Gunman skills to Frodo.
  
  Do you really need to tell everybody?? They'll never give me the ring now...
- I have so many star shows to watch.
  Like I have seen Stargate SG-1 but nothing for the rest of related tv shows.
  I have Star Wars stuff pending I have seen the two initials trilogies tough.
  0 from Star Trek except part of Picard.
  I also haven't seen Battlestar Galactica
  
  What about starship troopers? Are you doing your part?
  
  Can totally relate, I have a NAS media server and I am addicted to archiving media to the point where I have seen maybe a drop in the bucket of what I have stored to watch haha
  Just do yourself a favor and like those other series, keep Trek on a list. If you enjoy Stargate I think you will enjoy Star Trek too, Picard is not exactly standard Trek if you will and doesn’t represent the older series exactly as they have more structure and more seasons
  You will likely be alive for awhile (hopefully!) so you’ll get to trek sooner or later :)
- Star wars is better
  
  We don't take kindly to your type round these here parts, stranger.
  
  They both had great first series/trilogies, kinda shitty follow-ups more than a decade later, and J. J. Abrams then hammered the final nails into both franchises in the 21st century.

Whatever you do, DON'T PROVOKE THE BORG

Seven of Nine: Skintight leotards.
Deanna Troy: Also skintight leotards, but less often.

The best captain was of course Cpt Janeway. Fight me
- The fight is on.
  
  Senator Kinsey, you rat bast-
  Oh, excuse me Admiral, I thought you were someone else
- Gr8 b8 m8
  
  I think we all know the best captain is SNW Christopher Pike.

It is because of this shit that I'm now finished with Discovery, Lower Decks, 5 episodes into SNW, 20 Episodes into ENT, and 1.75 seasons through TOS.
What an Inspiring place 🖖
- We need a deacrynim bot in here.
  
  TOS: The Original Series
  TNG: The Next Generation
  DS9: Deep Space 9
  VOY: Voyager
  ENT: Enterprise
  DIS: Discovery
  PIC: Picard
  LD: Lower Decks
  SNW: Strange New World
  
  Zinda, his face black, his eyes red

I watched Picard's Flute at the recommendation of a friend 10+ years ago. I'm assuming every episode is as perfect. Never watched another episode. Welcome the the club.
- If you ever decide you want some great episodes to watch here are a handful great episodes off the top of my head: In the Pale Moonlight (Deep Space Nine), Subspace Rhapsody (Strange New Worlds-if you don't mind musicals), Equinox (Voyager), or First Contact (Lower Decks)
  
  Would you say one can watch these without context ? (never watched Star Trek either)
  edit no I did watch Discovery ! didn't realize that was Star Trek lol

Honestly, all the memes is what got me to start watching Next Gen, and I'm so glad I did.
- I've been wanting to rewatch TNG and DS9, but I don't have access to Paramount+ and haven't gotten around to finding an alternative source yet
  
  Hello friend, allow me to introduce you to this project that has performed AI remasters for DS9 and is currently working on Voyager (halfway thru s1 I think)
  https://ds9redefined.wordpress.com/
  check out the screenshots they provide (shown with a slider so you can easily compare source with remake):
  https://ds9redefined.wordpress.com/screenshots/
  Join their discord, and go to the #instructions channel, there is an ftp server for all completed episodes; you don’t need to run the workflows on the source eps yourself
  Enjoy old trek in a more clear and vibrant experience :)

Wow there are more if us than I thought

I feel like this is an easily solved problem 😹

Posts like this reconcile me to the bad, infinitely-memed guy in a Gorn suit in TOS ‘Arena’.

OP can I recommend Star Trek: Lower Decks as your gateway … to the onscreen franchise. A logical place to start.
- Say what you will about Shatner, and a lot of it will be perfectly true and highly applicable, but there are plenty longstanding pro wrestlers who wouldn't have committed as much as he did to selling the fuck out of each one of those glacial smacks.
  
  A wind up a mile long, but what do I know, I don't knock most people (and species stronger than mine) to the ground with the ol one-two like he does.
- The ham in TOS is like half the fun though 😄 Same with the first couple of seasons of TNG.
  
  I can appreciate the camp now. In the 90s, it was very cringey. . . and in the 60s & 70s I was too young to get that it was campy.

This is such a heartwarming thread.

Seriously, how do you have access to the internet and never see a single movie/episode?
- I've also never seen Star Wars, GOT, or any Marvel/DC movies. I kinda just exist inside my own little bubble. Honestly I don't even know what's popular anymore lol
  
  Don't worry, plenty of Trekkies don't know/care about what's popular either. That's why we're still making memes about a sixty year old series 🥲
  
  I don't know about anymore. Star Trek has been popular since the mid-1960s.

Like, Captain Kirk or Captain Picard, amiright!?
- you better watch out for the DS9 people...
  
  May I interest you in some self-sealing stem bolts?
  
  Janeway stanning intensifies

I'm also a Trekster. Or how we say: Trekkerony
- And I'm Treksexual
  
  Gotta be scrutable if you’re gonna be treksexual
- Trek on, yo'. Always cool to meet a fellow Trekhead.

How do you manage to go through life without watching a single episode of Trek? It has numerous seasons and spinoffs, and it is constantly in syndication. Do you avoid broadcast TV in entirety?
- My country just doesn't know Star Trek at all. We barely even know Star Wars. It's fascinating how different region per region can be in popular things.