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Dear Lemmy, why Star Trek?? (programming.dev)

submitted 11 months ago by actual_patience@programming.dev to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Every single large server in this federation has at least one Star Trek community. There is even an entire server dedicated to Star Trek.

Not only that, these communities are some of the most active I've ever seen. There is no other franchise I know of that dominates the federation as much as Star Trek does.

So, what's the correlation with Lemmy and Star Trek? Why not other sci-fi series? Please, are there any connections?? Is this all coincidental?

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[-] verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works 80 points 11 months ago

Because Trek fans were the first to organize conventions. They started out small in the late 60s. Now every single weekend, somewhere on this planet, there's a Trek convention being held. The conventions also raise massive money for charity. They are the nerds other nerds want to be, in terms of organization. I'm here for the memes.

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 11 points 11 months ago

Sorry, but there were science fiction conventions before Star Trek.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_World_Science_Fiction_Convention#:~:text=The%201st%20World%20Science%20Fiction%20Convention%20%28Worldcon%29%20was,%22%20NyCon%20I%20%22%20by%20Forrest%20J%20Ackerman.

You are right that Star Trek conventions were the first time a single show was the focus of a convention, and the Star Trek conventions lead to things like ComicCon.

[-] actual_patience@programming.dev 5 points 11 months ago

I did not know that, thanks!

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

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