[-] hopesdead@startrek.website 56 points 1 month ago

How do you feel about your species being used as the nomenclature for “test subject”?

[-] hopesdead@startrek.website 42 points 1 month ago

They went down to the planet and enslaved the ants that live there.

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by hopesdead@startrek.website to c/startrek@startrek.website

A big disclaimer at the top here that I am going to be discussing familial death.

Hello to everyone reading this. Not sure why I am greeting you, the reader. Last week my maternal grandfather passed away. He was in hospice care with bone cancer and overall poor health. The lead up to being admitted into hospice was a sudden and unexpected turn. During my grandfather’s final days, my family set up a computer at the foot of his bed so we could watch shows with him. Regardless if he was awake or not I took time by his side and watched Enterprise. As an important side note, I have always lived with my grandparents (I’m Filipino; this is a cultural thing).

In the week since my grandfather’s passing, I have been rewatching Enterprise. When the show first broadcast in 2001, I was 10-years-old. I grew up watching TNG, seeing First Contact and Insurrection in theaters and going on The Klingon Encounter attraction at Star Trek: The Experience in Las Vegas. For me, my grandfather was the Star Trek fan who I looked up to. I watched it because he did. So when Enterprise premiered, it was the first series I was old enough to watch in completion during its first run broadcast. I remember my grandfather being excited for “Broken Bow”. He let me stay up late on Wednesdays (and later Fridays if I recall correctly, when the timeslot changed) to watch with him.

Getting to watch Enterprise at the age of 10 to 13 (“These Are the Voyages…” aired four days before my 14th birthday) had a big impact on me. I didn’t realize till later as an adult when I finally took the time to watch all of Classic Trek and then all of New Trek (circa November 2023) how much Star Trek meant to me. You’d be hard pressed to not find me wearing a badge on a daily basis. As a Southern California resident, I drove out to Beverly Hills to attend the advanced screening of the Discovery finale in May. Then in August I finally attended my first convention: STLV.

I am writing this as my way of being reflective. Watching Enterprise with my grandfather is one of the happiest memories from my childhood. I miss my grandfather so much. Each time I watch an Enterprise episode, I feel like a kid all over. This brings me joy during a time of grief. I intimately associate Enterprise with my grandfather.

Someday in the future I want to get a tattoo of the mission patch in honor of my grandfather.

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Identifying a Trekkie. (startrek.website)
[-] hopesdead@startrek.website 45 points 3 months ago

Wait, they said the man who won a lawsuit that granted him the title of “co-founder”, at a company he did not co-found, isn’t in it for power?

On the topic of money: have you seen the price of a Tesla?

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The way The Doctor is able to change appearance so quickly, jump through glass panes and that hallway wall running, scream Matrix to me.

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Biggest take away: Wang was cast in Picard season 3, promoted to admiral, and over time cut out before production.

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Spoilers for “Subspace Rhapsody” (Strange New Worlds season 2 episode 9)

This question is 100% hypothetical. Would the episode have the same plot if Spock at completed kolinahr at this point in his life?

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I wonder why. 😉 (startrek.website)
[-] hopesdead@startrek.website 51 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

First time I ever played, I stated it was my first time. Team lost. Got called homophobic slurs. Never played again.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by hopesdead@startrek.website to c/startrek@startrek.website

Hi there. I just wanted to discuss something positive and uplifting. As we surely all know, Star Trek has a very big fandom that is super inclusive and positive (for the most part). Had a thought that for many fans, their passion is life-long. Maybe it would be nice to share a positive memory (maybe a few) you associate with Trek; whatever you are comfortable sharing. I kick it off (my list is chronological).

  1. Getting to go on The Klingon Encounter at Star Trek: The Experience in Las Vegas, Nevada. It was a family trip, I was seven (I recently found out I was off by year) in 1998. My grandfather was working at the time for a Chinese apparel brand. He took us to an industry convention he was attending for work. So my mom took me to the Hilton. There was walls of Borg statues, actors dressed as Klingons walking the casino. Only got to go on The Klingon Encounter, a Star Tours style ride. The premise is an entertainment experience with live actors which you are mysteriously transported to the future where you switch places with Picard. Klingons are behind it. They believe your group has an ancestor among you. You head to a transporter to escape to a shuttlecraft, and flee the Klingons. The chase eventually leads you over The Las Vegas Strip. The ride also included pre-recorded video from TNG cast as part of the story.

  2. Watching ENT when it first broadcast. I was ten years old. As an aside, I’ve always lived with my maternal grandparents. Anyways, my grandfather was excited for it. He let me stay up late on Wednesdays to watch with him. It was the first series (pretty much the only from start to end) I watched first broadcast. Watched every episode with him.

  3. Finally going to my first convention, STLV (formerly Star Trek Las Vegas) this year. Such an incredible four days that I can never forget. Getting to see the community up close changes how important this means. Everyone was such wonderful people. The one public event I’ve attended in my life where I felt truly accepted and safe.

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[-] hopesdead@startrek.website 55 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

If someone falsely accuses you of anything, assume they did that first. Investigate the accuser.

[-] hopesdead@startrek.website 49 points 6 months ago

As a human that understands, speaks, and writes in the English language, I don’t think this man understands the English language.

Most of what he says makes no sense and I’m starting to believe literacy is the problem. Does he know how to read? This is a genuine question.

[-] hopesdead@startrek.website 46 points 8 months ago

Now we just need a group of people from the 24th century to time travel.

[-] hopesdead@startrek.website 45 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

JADZIA WAS JERKING HIM OFF IN FRONT OF FRIENDS AND CO-WORKERS?!

[insert fainting]

[-] hopesdead@startrek.website 50 points 9 months ago

How to speed run your entire user base into hating you.

[-] hopesdead@startrek.website 53 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I don’t trust Boeing with airplanes anymore. What makes you think I trust them with spacecraft of any kind?

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