Where do you fall politically?
I’m hoping this doesn’t start a fight, I’m just curious what the political orientation is of this community. I grew up in a liberal (in the American sense) family, and I identify now as a socialist, though a lot of the liberalism I grew up in has stuck with me, like interest in LGBTQ and women’s rights, environmentalism,...
Latest WGA-AMTPT negotiations report from Variety (variety.com)
Many WGA veterans urged caution at getting hopes too high for what may come out of the AMPTP negotiating room later today, after a third day of talks between labor and management that involved four CEOs....
WGA and Studio CEOs End Second Day Of Talks; “Progress” Made But Deal Not Done – Update (deadline.com)
Netflix’s ‘Daredevil’ Showrunner Steven DeKnight Calls MCU’s ‘Born Again’ Reboot “An Old Disney Scam” (deadline.com)
What songs are on what Trek characters holo-playlists?
I am scrolling through Spotify, looking for something to tickle my fancy, and I come across this slice of pure fucking funk. The immediate first thought I had was of Riker playing alongside all of them....
Rewatching Avatar and Avatar 2 on blu ray
This week i’ve decided to rewatch the avatar films on blu ray. I picked up the special editions with the 3 hours worth of extras for each film. I’ve rewatched the first film and some extras. I’m a casual fan at best and by no means a movie critic, but here arey impressions....
What's the consensus here regarding Babylon Five?
I have the series on DVD but I’ve never seriously cracked it, only seen a few episodes. Was wondering what people here think, is it as good as the internet often says it is? I know it was an inspiration for one of my favorite franchises (Mass Effect) and The Orville had a cute reference to it by making its main actor the...
Newly Discovered Spiders Get Star Trek-Inspired Names (gizmodo.com)
Marvel Studios' VFX Staff Unanimously Votes to Unionize (gizmodo.com)
Some formatting questions
So, I have some questions about formatting on this site:...
What is the best community for discussing Star Trek tech?
So, I have some ideas for discussing Star Trek Tech (Both ideas for how to do some IRL, and some ideas for tech based on other star-trek tech, not necessarily IRL, but “IRL” if StarTrek was 100% accurate)...
Some general questions about this (startrek.website, not lemmy), (If this is the wrong community, sorry. That's one of my questions lol...)
So, I am confused by some things with this website, and as this is a “general” community, I thought Quarks would be the most likely to be the place to post it…...
Is anyone planning to get Star Trek - Infinite? I never got into Stellaris, but this looks like it could be fun. (youtu.be)
Getting a lot of blank pictures on Lemmy-UI (SOLVEDish-look at newest comment) (loot.buckodr.ink)
I’m seeing a lot of blank images when looking at posts from startrek.website through Lemmy-UI, but when I look through Photon/Sync the images are there. It seems to only affect images uploaded directly to startrek.website instead of images uploaded to a separate website. Is there something I can do to fix this on my instance?...
Spotlight on / controversy about corporate manipulation of Rotten Tomatoes (www.vulture.com)
Leaving aside bias towards the American market and critics, this latest criticism of Rotten Tomatoes influence comes from this September 6th piece from Vulture. The report provides new evidence of PR firms paying critics and persuading them to keep negative reviews off of Rotten Tomatoes tracking....
Whats your favorite Star Trek like video games?
Mine are The UrQuan Masters and Mass Effect (the original trilogy anyway) Havent played Starfield yet so wondering if that will measure up....
100 days into strike WB television ‘suspends’ agreements with 6 major production companies. (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
Earlier this week Disney announced (whinged) that it expected a $ 300 million revenue loss attributable to the strike....
Shouldn’t we expect better fact-checking from the BBC? Even a pop-culture writer profiling Star Trek The Animated Series? (www.bbc.com)
I was initially delighted to see BBC amplifying the celebration of TAS’ 50th anniversary. Then I read this piece....
StarTrek.website now has an "old reddit" style desktop experience viewable at old.startrek.website! (old.startrek.website)
https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/5c20b3e1-3b0e-4c9c-ac57-a4c40591c0c6.png...
StarTrek.website is back online and has restored full functionality!
Thank you for everyone’s patience while we were migrating hosts . I know I said “a few hours” and it turned out to be over a day. Clearly I need to work on my Scotty estimates. During transport the team found a backlog of extremely low effort memes caught in the pattern buffer and we had to go through the copies one by one...
LeVar Burton-Hosted Trivial Pursuit Series In The Works At The CW (deadline.com)
TiL: Paul Stamets (of Discovery) is a real life mycologist here on earth! (paulstamets.com)
This is probably old news to other people but I only just noticed this. Seems like a pretty interesting guy!
Favorite sci fi film (thats not Star Trek)?
Just looking for some recommendations because I’m in a sci fi mood. And btw, my favorite sci fi film is Planet of the Apes (original).
Why are so many Star Trek/Sci Fi YouTubers far right?
Here’s a few examples:...