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What are your favorite time travel episodes? Also what are your least favorite?

In April, the Roddenberry Archives and OTOY published virtual bridges you could walk around for most main ships we see on screen. But now, when I follow old links to the site, I get redirected to the Roddenberry Archives new frontpage, and I can't find the virtual bridges anywhere. Google finds several news articles of the publication, but nothing on them being taken down (except a link to r/StarTrek, but I can't read that because the sub is private).

So, why were the virtual bridges taken down, or are they just hosted elsewhere?

Written by Henry Alonso Myers & Akiva Goldsman

Directed by Chris Fisher

A note about episode discussions on startrek.website

Right now, the plan is to post the /c/startrek discussion when the episode drops on Thursdays. Once the global community has had some time to watch and digest what they've seen, the /c/daystrominstitute discussion will go live on Sundays for a more in-depth analysis. This is subject to change as we evaluate what works best for the community as a whole.

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/563759

Have fun!

Editor's Note: Apologies if this has been discussed to death, but I figured covering old territory may be necessary as we regenerate.

I was too cool in middle school for Magic the Gathering (or maybe my Mom wouldn't let me player because of demons or something) so my trading card experience was fixated on Star Trek: The Next Generation Customizable Card Game, released originally by Decipher in 1994. At the time, I had no job and no allowance so I only had a few starter decks I got for birthdays or saving up whatever I made from mowing my neighbor's yard. I remember making a very of-the-times custom box from a shoebox covered in duct tape to hold my precious collection--I still have that if anyone wants a photo, haha.

Fast forward to a few years ago when I discovered a new coworker was also a big Trek fan! He also played the game, and he was actually good enough to win some tournaments! That is when I discovered the resell market and websites like The Continuing Committee and the wonderful people that have kept the game alive all these years. I spent more money on eBay (and a few semi-sketchy websites I had never heard of before) than I am prepared to admit, but it was all worth it to fulfill a childhood dream: I now own the entire TNG bridge crew and Enterprise D cards, something I could only salivate over as a kid.

We played a ton of great games over lunch breaks and I learned that all of my favorite cards are weaklings compared to the later expansions, as appears to be true of all long running card games. Eventually he moved on and I had nobody left to play with, but I still occasionally pull out the collection and go through it to relive the nostalgia.

The only major downside is that the popularity had dropped off pretty hard by the time DS9 and Voyager expansions came out, so while the market is flooded with affordable copies of the original run and the few early expansions I remembered, trying to collect the equivalent primary-ship-and-main-crew cards from my other favorite franchises appears to be completely beyond my financial range.

So, that's my story. Did anyone else play and/or collect? Anyone still involved in the modern incarnation?

nuqneH!

Welcome to our new home in the Fed~~eration~~iverse. First of all- WOW we did not expect to surpass 300 users on this instance (and over 1K fediverse subscribers) within our first 48 hours and with little promotional effort. We are all excited to see where this long road goes.

Coming from Reddit and confused about Lemmy?

I had some stuff typed out, but honestly, this thread sums it up better. Check it out! It has infographics.

If you're still stressed out, remember that Lemmy is still new. Yes, it's ugly, but people said Reddit was ugly too (both are correct). As Lemmy grows, and #Rexxit continues, more tools will get made. Decentralization opens up a lot of possibilities we didn't have before. The future is bright.

Will other communities be setting up shop besides StarTrek, DaystromInstitute and Risa?

Yes! Eventually. Right now our focus is staying online, fast, and reliable which means keeping things focused while we find our footing. Daystrom, StarTrek and Risa were chosen to start off with because the three of them cover the "srs bsns ↔ shitposting" spread quite well.

If you are part of a community interested in being hosted on startrek.website, send me a DM and we can try to work something out.

Qapla'! How can I support?

We've started a Patreon here: Patreon.com/treksite. There's only one plan and it's just $4. If our growth continues like it has, we're going to need to upgrade our hosting very soon.

Will supporters have perks?

~~Yes! Eventually. We're still working that out. Which means we owe an extra big thank Thank you to those of you who are contributing now.~~

Probably not (unless you're Ferengi). See comment

If you have any questions for the team, please don't hesitate to ask in this thread (and yes the discussion thread for the Strange New Worlds season premiere will be up on /c/StarTrek later today, stay tuned!)🖖

As a video game it's a bit crap, but as a Star Trek VN it's pretty good.

sometimes I wish I had the lobes for capitalism

#mastodon #fediverse #omgwtf #lemmy

Ok, so I'm trial following @startrek and I'm getting a torrent(<a bit of hyperbole) posts in my home page. How do you people that follow hundreds/thousands handle this? Just ignore most of what flows down the page?

I've tried to be careful curating the people I follow, and it was fairly manageable til today. Trying to avoid setting up a lemmy acct, but StarTrek is only gonna get more active, and there's more to life than StarTrek :^O How to manage?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/61827

Hello friends! Friendly neighbor over at sh.itjust.works popping in to lend a hand. Here's a very useful set of instructions and tips that have been floating about, I hope you find it useful too.

You can ignore the "How to Join Lemmy" part if you're already happily set up on startrek.website, but the rest'll still be useful.

I'm happy to answer any questions people may have!

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How to Join Lemmy

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2. To browse communities across all instances, visit https://browse.feddit.de/. Tapping on the community's name will open it, but probably not through your instance (in which case the page will say that you are not logged in). Instead, follow these steps:

   a. Copy the community's URL or remote name. You can use the copy button next to the community name, you can open the community outside your instance and copy the URL from your address bar, or you can open the community outside your instance and copy the remote name (which will look like [!community@instance.tld](/c/community@instance.tld)) from the sidebar.

   b. In your instance, tap on the "🔍 Search" button in the upper toolbar.

   c. Make sure that you have chosen "All" for each of the four filters: "Type", "Scope", "Community", and "Creator".

   d. Paste the community's URL or remote name into the search field and tap "Search".

   e. One of the results should be the community shown as an icon, a name, and a subscriber count. If you do not see it, or it is buried too deep in the search results, try changing "Scope" to "Local". If that does not work, you may need to wait a bit and try again.

   f. Tap on the community in the search results to open it in your instance.

3. If you want an experience similar to Reddit's r/all, visit https://lemmy.directory/home/data_type/Post/listing_type/All/sort/Hot/page/1, which aggregates from these communities as described here. As in Option 2, you can copy and search for a community's URL to open it in your instance and subscribe to it.

4. If you don't see a community by browsing, subscribe to https://lemmy.ml/c/findacommunity and make a post about what you're looking for.

Once a community is open in your instance, subscribe to it by tapping on the "Subscribe" button at the top of the sidebar. It will then appear in the "Subscribed" section of your "Communities" tab, and its posts will show on your home feeds.

Can't find a community you're looking for? If your instance allows it, you can create the community yourself by tapping "Create Community" in the upper toolbar.

The simple version of that wall of text is if you're the first person on your instance to subscribe to a community:

1. Get the URL (for example, https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy)

2. Go to the Communities page

3. Search for that URL

4. Change all search options to "All" (even "Communities")

5. Click the federated link it gives you (for example, https://startrek.website/c/lemmy@lemmy.ml)

6. Click subscribe

EDIT: Also, there's a new project for finding communities across instances! lemmyverse.net is a REALLY cool and easy way to find communities that you might want to subscribe to!

startrek.website is a partnership between /r/StarTrek and /r/DaystromInstitute from Reddit, they've both locked their subs over there for good. Follow @startrek for all your Trek needs. 🖖 :trek:

#StarTrek

Ortegas and La'an looking good

I just found this post on IMDB and I can't believe I haven't heard about this yet. How do I see/hear them? I didn't see it on Paramount+ or YouTube, so I guess the next stop is the high seas? 🏴‍☠️

SPOILERS OF SEASON 4 OF DISCOVERY

I have recently finished watching season 4 of Discovery and havent read any reviews or opinions on it before or after watching. Here I want to share my views.

Basically, I am very frustrated. Not because I think its complete trash, but because I think they had a very cool concept which they screwed up.

I separate, what I think are the main issues, in these two points:

• Non-stop apocalypse ready to happen
• Spore drive killing character development

I will cover both now in more depth.

Non-Stop apocalypse ready to happen

So in this season we are introduced with the idea of rebuilding. Rebuilding a great Federation, to return it to its glory and make the quadrant and galaxy prosper again. Soon we are introduced to this anomaly, DMA, which destroys an entire world and is basically unstoppable and is coming for other worlds as well. This, then, turns out to be artifical and creators are these very cool aliens at the edge of the galaxy. The task is to meet them and convince them to shut it down.

Honestly, I am tired of this thrope that every problem has to be a world-ending, galaxy-ending, universe-ending problem. Everything is so huge, everytime its either we succede or we all die. There is no more room for simple problems, "every day" problems. By far, the best episodes are episodes where "small" problems are solved. Like the episode where Zora's consciousness was explored or in previous season where Saru beat his fear and so on. They work much better because audience can understand them much more, connect to them more easily than "entire universe will be dead". At a risk of sounding like a hater, this is why TNG is so damn good. It is a bunch of small stories than are easy to grasp and connect to. You dont need a world-ending problem to make a good plot.

Spore drive killing character development

I think this is a unexpected consequence of the spore drive. A lot of character development in old shows was happening during the their travel to the destination. That was the time dedicated for character development, it was logical, it was simple, it worked. Now, with spore drive you dont have time for that. You are instantly in the combat or a problem.

How they do character development then? They do it in the middle of the mission. So there is a time sensitive thing we need to do, we have a few minutes to get the fuck out, lets talk about our emotions. I am all for talking about emotions, but damn, you are trained military personnel. You do your job first, then talk about your emotions. Its like firefighters would go into a burning building and pause to have a chat about their childhood. You go in, you do the job and you talk after the mission is over. Basically, the moments they choose for character development are extremely illogical and unnatural for trained military personnel.

My ideas on how to fix it

First, for the character development. Just give more screen time before and after the mission to this, not in the middle of the mission.

For the plot. I loved the idea of the future and rebuilding the federation. And i even like the idea of this aliens, which look super cool. But I would love to see more diplomatic episodes, where this federation rebuilding would actually been shown. Give us 1 episode of heavy diplomacy so we can appreciate what goes into rebuilding it. It surely is not as simple as "Join us, please. Ok we agree".

Also these aliens could have been prime example of "new civilazation" and trying to bring them into the federation. Overcoming vast differences between the species, accpeting those differences and finding the common ground.

Basically, more diplomacy less apocalypse.

Do you agree, or do you think i am wrong? Please, I welcome the discussion on this.

“Well, I think what Terry did with Season 3 is so extraordinary, and I think that the appetite for it is, I think, undeniable. So certainly, I am a huge advocate of some version of that continuing. It was so spectacular, I think, what he did. And so, you know, right now, there's no pitching of anything. Right now the world is uh shut down [due to writer's strike]. But, you know, I would really hope– let me put it like this: I signed the petition [for Star Trek: Legacy] too.”

During Voyagers Season 4 and 5, the crew periodically encounter a group of waste managment freigters from a species called the Malon, who are in the business in dumping millions of tons of theta radiation into "isolated spaces".

During their first encounter, they offered the Controller of a freighter a way to reduce theta-radiation to a minimum the same way Starfleet does with their ships warp core. This was declined due to disrupting the waste managment sector and "putting them out of business".

A few episodes later, in the episode Juggernaut, they encounter another Malon freighter with ruptured theta tanks, which explosions will wipe out anything in a three lightyear radius.

During a crawl through a service catwalk, B'Elanna and one of the Malon begin having idle conversation, much to B'Elannas dismay of course. In this conversation, the Malon describe their homeworld as a pristine, beautiful world, and to keep it that way the giant waste managment industry exists.

Wouldn't that be a perfect time to offer their plans to recycle Theta radiation again, which would keep their world pristine without the extremly hazardous and poisonous work? If not suggested by B'Elanna, why hasn't it been suggested by Janeway?

#ActivityPub is super cool once you see it in action.

For instance, you can visit the new StarTrek lemmy server here: https://startrek.website/c/startrek. Looks like a reddit sub with posts, threaded comments, upvotes, &c.

OR you can follow the same server on Mastodon ‪@startrek‬.
Every thread and comment shows up as a boosted post.

Cool, right? Now, say you find a comment that you want to reply to. Post through your favorite Mastodon app, and that feeds right back to the thread on the #Lemmy server! 🤯

I was wondering if anyone was playing or interested in playing a Star Trek Adventures campaign?