[-] cuchi@startrek.website 1 points 1 day ago

Source of Harry Potter demographics: https://pro.morningconsult.com/instant-intel/harry-potter-fandom-demographics Getting almost 50-50 woman and male in a fandom is VERY hard to get.

Of course there is black people who love what Star Trek do in their universe, but they aren't a big number of the fandom, Whoopi Goldberg is a great actress, yes, but still the fandom is predominant by white men because the story itself is more atracted to that audience.

[-] cuchi@startrek.website 1 points 1 day ago

I have to source but really, you still gonna denied it.

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Still, Harry Potter is enjoyed by boys and girls, my point was not about quality, is how a story manage to get that "all audience taste" goal.

Harry Potter is demographically diverse, instead of Star Trek, even if I like Star Trek way more than Harry Potter.

[-] cuchi@startrek.website -1 points 2 days ago

Yeah, I mean, is a silly complaing, but, surprisely, they complaing about that scene like "the big mistake of the movie" for some reason.

[-] cuchi@startrek.website 1 points 2 days ago

From Studio Ghibli, the ones I know are mostly women—it doesn’t quite reach a fifty-fifty split, at least from my biased point of view.

Maybe that sci-fi optimism is different from other political way of thinking, right?

[-] cuchi@startrek.website 0 points 2 days ago

If you want to know, don't be offended but the average Star Trek viewer is... An United States white man, heterosexual, sci-fi enjoyer (most likely; a nerd).

Yes, there is transgender people or others, but let's face it, the majority are from USA and the most average kind of person.

Not as some Star Trek character with mexican, chilean, russian nationality, lesbian women, even the show tell you about diversity, the Star Trek Viewer is not diverse, is mostly from USA. (I'm sure I'm the only one from argentina in this website)

People said "Star Trek Starfleet academy is not for the average white man, is something for true fans" and well, there you have it, cancelled after first season because again, minorities are not really interested in Star Trek. Which is sad.

I'm not against diversity, but the truth is, people want to be identified with the series they are watching. I don't agree with the complains.

So, my question is, how it feels to have a target if that same target it's not the people who are interesting in your work? And why most stories have a kind of viewer? (Like I said before)

[-] cuchi@startrek.website 2 points 4 days ago

I think it does matter in fandoms which are like the 60%, literally every single person I meet which like MCU is like "Dude, you remember that forced scene when all girls are in the same scene only for 'girl power'?"

[-] cuchi@startrek.website 0 points 4 days ago

"MCU" and "Star Wars" has not complaing of "being woke" by the majority of their own fandom? And in compare of Star Trek they are actually more people anti-woke people on the fandom.

As far as I know, people complaing about Rey for being a "mary stu" even with characters as Starkiller without the same complaing the writing just because he is a guy.

I never see women enoying The Fast and Furious.

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Ok, this gonna sound polemic and I'm gonna try to not use any adjectives. (Except for once)

The thing is that sometimes I feel like many stories try to appeal to a broad audience, but regardless of what they aim for, a lot of the time the audience ends up being (I’ll allow myself this just once) men rather than women. I’m not sure if this happens with the animated series of Avatar, but I do notice that with Star Trek, even though they try to make everyone feel represented, the reality is that the average viewer is, well, just that—the average person in the country where it’s broadcast.

In the case of Avatar, it’s criticized by some Japanese people because they associate it more with China, to the point that they label it as almost racist when it’s compared to Japanese animation (anime). What I mean is that no matter how much a series tries to appeal to a general audience or to please everyone, that’s never really going to happen; it will always end up having a group with shared characteristics that likes it.

But what do you think? Can there be stories that anyone—regardless of gender, ethnicity, or country—can enjoy? I think the closest thing to that is Harry Potter, and well, you know what the creator is like, but that’s not the point here.

It’s hard to explain, but this is more aimed at writers or any other creative producer: do you write with a specific audience in mind, or do you think that everyone will like what you create?

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After watching many episodes of many Star Trek series I was considering to make my own fanfic like I did with Half-Life Ampere.

I have a few ideas, but I'm not sure, it is normal to want to make up my own story set in Star Trek universe?

Also, I personally have troubles to try to be the most lore friendly possible and that make me angry while I'm typing down eveything.

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I really like this episode, not only because it continue the story of M'benga, but also because it has this tradition complexity about Kilingon, and lot of action and drama in every character.

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Also to the Krall of Unreal Tournament 3. What you think?

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You are waiting for more borg and romulans? Are you interested in a new enemy of the federation to appear or have another re-encounter like the cardassians?

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Watching Star Trek Strange New Worlds, I'm enjoying so far after watching season 1, but I personally think Paramount appeals for nostalgia more than a new public, specially with lots and lots of reference who only fans will catch.

And I start to remembering those people who complaing about Star Wars or Fallout, with the idea of franchises which need a 360 grades turn to bring something new, for example, Fallout fans complain about the overuse of Broterhood of Steel, something I think is a silly thing to complaing since is almost the face of Fallout franchise is a whole.

But my question is; do Star Trek fans has the same opinions and thoughts? Of letting go the franchise?

Image as example, also, I'm waiting for respectful discussion and not flamewar.

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First time I complaing about graphics, but they also use like 6GB VRAM for game which looks from PS3 or Xbox 360. The characters looks like toys, why it looks ugly?

Plus, lacks of voice acting.

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I mean... all of them?

[-] cuchi@startrek.website 30 points 2 months ago

How it feels to have all the Klingon makeup?

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I can understand in a "#MeToo" movement can be wrong, but at least tries to show a complicated idea.

Now, Blood Fever presents rape with fetish ideas, first, the Vulcan tries to do a forced Pon Farr, that rape attempt has no punishment, I mean, Worf was complained for following his traditions, but Vulcans seems to be safe of any complain or repercussion of the ship. I know the idea is of being understable with chemical disbalances, but I was expecting at least one saying "that is not excuse".

Then, almost episode is the sexual tension of Torres with Paris because she got affected by the Pon Farr, and she is like "Stop ignoring me, I want to have sex with you".

Tuvok, pharaprasing, order to: Tom Paris, to laid with B'ellana Torres, "or she gonna die" that porn-plot is delivered with a serious tone quote. Then the vulcan cames back to fight for mating porpuses.

Were the writers horny when they made this up? At least the episode end with Borg drone, giving some plot tension.

My question is, how "Blood Fever" is not as complained as "Retrospect" episode?

And also, sorry my bad english.

EDIT: Oh, and I forget there are aliens in the cave, because it was more of a pretext of sexual stuff.

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I saw a bit of them at the final season of Star Trek Deep Space Nine, but it was clear the serie run out of time, I look some clips of Star Trek Discovery but I didn't like the first episode of the series, so, were can find more information of them? I'm curious about this faction, specially because I want to know how strong they are compared to Jam Hadar or The Borg.

As far I understand, they are like Star Wars mandalorian, they are basically bounty hunters or mercenaries, right?

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[-] cuchi@startrek.website 18 points 2 years ago

I remember seeing people complaining about "woke adaptation" with The Sandman, and Neil Gaiman always reply on Twitter he was ok with that, is like people can't believe there is authors or works who is being left-right stories, people acted like he was controlled, mind-washing or something.

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