


/r/StarTrek founder and primary steward from 2008-2021
Currently on the board of directors for StarTrek.website





Data’s Day is the episode I usually recommend people use to introduce TNG to newbies since Data literally goes around and introduces the crew. I’m shocked it wasn’t on Variety’s list!


Great example! I had forgotten that one. I guess that’s a sign it’s time for a Voyager rewatch.

Absolutely Amazing work here. Tesseract should strongly be considered as a default UX.


I think the current methodology skews the data; consider that an instance federated with say, Hexbear, is probably going to have significantly more individual and community bans than an instance who only made 5-6 bans before recognizing the pattern and blocking the instance.
If the goal of this study is to see which places most aggressively moderate their content, you’re actually getting somewhat of the reverse.


Wow this looks incredible


Very interesting stuff! Defederations should count as a ban of all instance users, imo.


I agree but that has nothing to do with the “Nu” pejorative assigned to Kelvinverse films.
The reactionary racists and trolls started reapplying the term to the Black Lady show and pretended that crying a lot is somehow the same thing as Captain Kirk riding a motorcycle through a flaming ring.


no this is patrick


in my culture shitting on anything except the three kelvinverse films is a no no


they tried to take our word and they tried to take our culture away








Great points all around. “Hope and Kindness” may seem like obvious cliche lessons, but one could argue that in today’s political climate they are as important as TOS calling out societal racism.


“Datalore” is another one that’s important, but it’s not very good. Most of the episode is Wesley running around trying to convince the grown-ups that Data is being weird and being ignored. It’s the one where Picard tells him to “shut up”.


And again in “The Menagerie”!


It says right in the meme “a lot of my masking is just making myself more palatable for other people”


Implying Spock is fictional



More mods and admins on Fedi need to step up and take bolder action, imo. Whether intentional or not, a mods inaction will often set the tone for a given community more than their actions.
Imagine the community you mod meets in person and someone is being obnoxious and disruptive. A new attendee is not going to speak up, they’re going to look to you for guidance. If you allow unwelcoming behavior to persist, then attendees learn that being loud is how to get noticed, and if they don’t want to be loud (as many of us don’t) they’ll just stop going.