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Oh hey, would you like to talk about how cool replicators are and their role in helping achieve post-scarcity?

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[–] teft@startrek.website 28 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Really because I'm more like this when I find a new trek friend.

[–] Cylusthevirus@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I will be your Trek Friend so long as we can talk about the amazing duo that is Quark and Odo.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 4 points 2 years ago

Or doctor and tailor? That show was so good. My memory is shot today though.

[–] teft@startrek.website 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How about the duo that is Kurzodo and Lumba?

[–] Cylusthevirus@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

See? Quark has ALWAYS been fierce.

[–] teft@startrek.website 4 points 2 years ago

And Odo has always had a trickster streak. He just buried it down super deep because of his PTSD from the shitty spoonheads.

[–] JTheDoc@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago

Mon capitaine!

[–] Bunnylux@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Came to the comments to search for a fight about our nomenclature. I seem to recall there being some people who'd prefer to be called 'Trekkers' over 'Trekkies'. Anyone remember that?

[–] teft@startrek.website 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Only changeling infiltrators care which term you use to describe the fandom. Use whatever tickles your brain, this isn't Starfleet Academy.

[–] don@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

This is the correct answer. Unless you’re Cardassian.

[–] Default_Defect@midwest.social 1 points 2 years ago

I don't know that I'd refer to myself as a hard R trekker.

[–] don@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

i’m TeamJaneway, fite me irl

[–] GreenMario@lemm.ee 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

As a coffee fan, can't disagree.

There's the right way, wrong way, and the Janeway.

[–] don@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I have to buy honest and admit that I prefer my Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

[–] GreenMario@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] don@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Why, thank you!

[–] teft@startrek.website 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sorry, no coffee but I do have this:

[–] don@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

Well done, Number One.

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Anyone who isn't Team Q is a loser. Don't @ me

[–] don@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I dunno about that; a race of immortals with effectively all of the same problems as humans but condemned to never die.

de Lancie is pure and rockstar, though. Both JLP & KJ fiting him was awesome.

[–] teft@startrek.website 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Don't forget my man Sisko. He literally fights Q.

[–] GreenMario@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago

I can live with that.

[–] don@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

GODDAMMIT now I gotta rewatch DS9! It was difficult for me to get into at first, but I’m glad I persisted.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

It starts out really boring and slow, but damn does it get good!

[–] enthusiasticamoeba@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

DS9 is my favorite by far. But what I really like about trek is the variety of shows/mediums there are. We've got long arcs and one-off's, comedies and dramas, diplomacy, action, fighting... And if you get tired of watching there are even books!

[–] don@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

All very true! It was also much easier to get into than the other star franchise.

[–] Ghost33313@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

You seem like a nice guy. Ever consider a career as an air traffic controller at the Albuquerque NM Airport?

[–] Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

would you like to talk about how cool replicators are and their role in helping achieve post-scarcity?

Or how it might be the opposite. I'm in the camp that says it's because humans progressed as a species that they could make a post-scarcity society work. If replicators got invented today some billionaire would just patent it and lock it behind DRM.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Replicators didn't even help humans achieve the post-scarcity society. Humans already had a post-scarcity society by the time they were given replicator technology by another race.

I'm not sure I agree. Replicators are basically just better 3D printers, and those are pretty readily available.