Link: https://startrek.website/post/35769143

This is the most notable AMA I know of in Threadiverse history.

wow, cool! I just watched episode 4 last night, so this is timely!

Our first big lemmy AMA for sure. Must be a few Mastodon ones conducted but anyway, great to see Karim Diané here!

shit we better vacuum.

How do you link without leaving your instance?

Trying to link to it from any instance:
!startrek@startrek.website/post/35769143

edit: nope that doesn't work :( can't it be done, or it's just that I don't know how to?

Some clients do it automatically, but this should work: https://lemmyverse.link/startrek.website/post/35769143

It's possible, you copy the post id and put a number in front of it, like the following:

#43294288@startrek.website

However, it doesn't autoformat to a link (unfortunately). To do that you need to do regular links. IE: [link](#43294288@startrek.website) which produces this link

Edit: Damn it, messed this up, just a sec let me read some more.

Looks like it's simply not possible. There's open github cases around this and this particular feature was just dropped. Shame, I'd have liked the #postId@site format.

omg what!!! I am so damn excited!!!!!!!

I really like the show and I do genuinely think the fediverse is the most Star Trek thing ever... in a way that actually does the spirit of Star Trek justice warts and all.

Thank you, it redirected me that way.

gonna have to put on clothes

That's super cool. Hopefully this can be a nice boost.

And flush the toilet!

noice. we're starting to get some traction

sigh...

get the poop knife..

And floss!

https://lemmyverse.link/startrek.website/post/35769143

https://lemmyverse.link/startrek.website/post/35769143

A lot of clients will do it automatically. Voyager for instance.

I've got my poop knife.

George Takei is on Mastodon and has been for years, surely he would have done something.

That poor fool...

Not even kidding, I think the fediverse is how message boards work on starships in Trek. Each ship has their own server, and as they pass within subspace range of one another, they federate. Probably most people even think it's called "fediverse" because it's how the Federation chats.

Voyager

Apprpropriate for a Star Trek AMA :)

I'm glad he does post, and it's better than nothing, but I don't see him interact on mastodon much. I think his posts are just mirrored from bluesky

Hmm interesting, I thought he'd been on Mastodon since well before Bluesky existed.

I'm jaundiced so I'm never confident whether I've left urine in the toilet. Tis a tough life.

And my axe!

But seriously, if you use the axe to cleave poop, please disinfect it afterwards.

You have.

I liked the series, even though it felt like its own thing. But when I finally got to the Jay-Den focused episode the whole thing immediately gave updated TNG vibes. The adults in the cast are excellent philosophy-heavy mentors and I find myself repeatedly rewinding their scenes to recontextualize their pearls in terms of my own life. If I had one gripe it'd be all the YA aspects, but I immediately retract that as I want the series to also appeal to the yutes. Tawny Newsome is my hero.

This is very cool!

But our youths are supposed to be in training to be functional non-youths. So much YA BS just revels in and normalizes silly immature nonsense because it creates drama. There's no reason these characters can't be strong role models that make less ridiculous decisions.

Like the weird drama between the complete stranger boy & girl who just met and spent the afternoon together. Being all 'OMG you lied to me by not immediately telling me you had a long history of hardship and trauma that your still trying to resolve, which naturally influences your choices'.

That whole bit was just drama for the sake of drama, and horribly unrealistic and dysfunctional. She's not just an empath, she's a super empath! Who is apparently also extremely immature and horrifically unfamiliar with basic emotion or behavior or relationships or....

But then her dad is also a bit of a short-sighted dick.

Then there's the fighting between 'schools'...

Most of the time they act like a bunch of 5 year olds.

Then they also have moments where they seem so deep and emotionally mature.

There's very little consistency to their characters.

And they are in Star Fleet Academy. It's a college for the members of a galaxy spanning humanitarian program, not an elementary school. And it has understandably very militant rules about decorum and conduct, as it's members are working to master skills needed to successfully explore space and navigate complex interactions with a wide variety of very different species.

I know, sure, young people tend to make more mistakes, but some of the random stuff they just drop in out of nowhere to create drama when it's not needed, probably just to meet a formula regarding content type per minute of showtime, it's just disappointing.

It doesn't add to the story, and it's even often discarded by the characters by the next scene and never referenced again.

The kinda TV that stuck with me, even as a kid, was more mature and more meaningful. Episode after episode they taught morals, gave examples of strong healthy character traits, showed cooperation and problem solving and leadership, gave viewers heros to look up to, even if they were just kids still themselves.

There wasn't drama unless it added to the story, created opportunities to expand on, or build from, to enhance the intellectual experience, not just give viewers a cheap and fleeting emotional rollercoaster ride.

I mean, do we want our kids getting caught in unhealthy relationship cycles with others, or their own emotions?

Of course, personally, if I wasn't watching Trek as a kid I was watching PBS Specials, Discover (before it became trash), old Sherlock Homes DVDs borrowed from the library, or reading non-fiction books and magazines, or actually building or crafting things in the real world. So, I dunno, maybe I just never was the target audience for these show runners.

Yeah. I'm a big fan of his, but his social media presence has always had the whiff of "professional social media team" about it.

I prefer to refer to it as V'Ger, but you do you.

Yeah, that makes sense.

Throw a sheet over the tankie cage

Ya know, for an AMA about Star Trek, they can have a seat on the couch for this one, too!

Lemmy needs a Victoria. I wonder if Victoria would be keen to fill the role?

He was, but probably moved their when it became clear that Bluesky was the winner of the 2022 Twitter exodus. At least for the time being.

In the olden days it was called WefWef

She was so darn good!

Interpreted the Betazed as being analogous to bipolar.
I interpreted the peaceful vs war schools to be representations of contrasting political parties.
There's so many more options now and short attention spans are being rewarded. Am happy to give the show time to grow its Riker beard.

this isnt the cesspool, we can clean up for him

Lemmy is arguably more Star Trek than Reddit. It only makes sense.

Wait. Is there an LCARS lemmy frontend? We could really use that.

Prodigy was a series for kids that adults could watch. I like to think this is a series for teens and young adults that adults can watch.

Well before Bluesky his mastodon posts were mirror of his twitter posts.

He doesn't interact with people on mastodon.