What brings you to The Wayfarers’ Haven today? What’s on your mind?
I was using Lemmy Explorer and came across this instance and it looked cozy. So Hi! And thanks for creating the space.
Thanks for saying hi! What other interesting communities have you found today?
And to keep in the theme of the common room, what’s your drink of choice today?
Sorry for the late reply. :) Drink of choice today is coffee. Creamy with a touch of sugar. I know I should switch to black, but I keep putting it off.
I found a cyberpunk community that has some “maker” projects for inspiration. I joined the midwest.social instance for some local flavor. What have you found interesting?
Coffee is always good!
I started out with !fountainpens@sopuli.xyz - it’s been great seeing the community come together anywhere we get to talk about pens.
!creative@beehaw.org has some great stuff going. I’m hoping to promote communities like sewing and knitting, but the number of people may just be too small.
!literature@beehaw.org is doing pretty well, too, though I’m partial to !fantasy@lemmy.ml and !startrek@startrek.website.
It’s all going so quickly! I bet if someone asks me this next week, I’ll have a different answer.
That’s the beauty of trying all this new stuff! It is a bit exciting exploring and reforming the online social experience.
I found this instance when looking for a new home for Fountain Pen discussions, and then discovered that it housed communities for nearly all my other interests. I ended up making a new account here to avoid slow federation issues and am glad I did. It feels more appropriate to have wayfarershaven.eu after my username.
Nice to see you settling in and glad someone else likes my quirky choice for the domain name.
Which Star Trek series is your favorite?
You opened a can of worms with that question!
TNG, closely followed by Voyager.
TNG was the Trek of my youth and stuck with me as my favorite. I loved the Enterprise-D as a ship too.
Voyager mixed things up a bit and I found it refreshing and exciting while still being able to follow the traditional Trek storytelling formula of exploring humanity and relating their futuristic stories to events that affect us in reality in our lives now. Trek always seemed to have have some kind of moral lesson to be learned form an episode.
DS9 was a show I really didn’t like on release. I found it boring and a bit soap opera’ish. Now, I like it a lot. They explored some very complex topics in that series, particularly race related oppression, religion (both fanatical and how it can relate to science) and power struggles and they explored them all well.
Enterprise got off to a slow start and isn’t the strongest series with some odd episodes in there but I was disappointed when they cancelled it prematurely and the last episode was abysmal. I watched it once and vowed never again.
Discovery is just a bit odd. The whole Spore Drive thing is something I had a hard time buying into it, but it is passable.
Picard has been great but I’ve only seen season 1. You can’t beat having Patrick Stewart back as JLP.
TOS is OK but honestly just a bit too old for me to really enjoy much.
If I had to say I disliked anything in the Trekverse it would be the alternate universe, lack of respect of established Star Trek cannon, and the reliance on action in the recent movies. They got a great cast for a reboot of the original crew but threw it all away by effectively wiping the slate clean of Trek history and the nerd in me hates that they were doing things that were not possible in the history of Trek (transport onto a moving ship light years away…yeah, no), that the ship was more advanced than anything seen in TNG or Voyager, or that the engine room looked like a beer factory (in fact it was a Budweiser factory) that was bigger than the ships entire hull.
Thanks for that in-depth review! I’ve now seen everything but TOS and Enterprise - Strange New Worlds is amazing and feels the most like TNG to me.
Have you seen The Orville yet? It feels uneven at first and then hits its stride. Once it starts tackling the harder topics in later seasons it feels like a spiritual addition to Star Trek.
I think I started The Orville at some point but can’t recall why I didn’t stick with it. Maybe I need to start again.
I’d been wondering why you asked about Star Trek and then remembered my user name 😂 . I guess if you have a clue about Trek you’d get it.
Yup, your username - if you’re going to call yourself something related to the Enterprise, you probably like Star Trek.
