I think part of it is also that a random stranger in a star wars shirt can be anyone. A random stranger in a star trek shirt is a nerd, and therefore more likely to be a cool dude.
Yes exactly, you can walk up to anyone in a Star Trek shirt and by simply saying the phrase "favorite captain?" you'll probably have a new friend two hours later.
Oh man, there were a pair of middle-aged guys at the table behind me at a restaurant recently, and I SO BADLY wanted to join their conversation! Favorite Romulan ship class, U.S.S. Pegasus: treaty violation or necessary development?, Best DS9 episodes... they were my kind of people.
I know plenty of folks who love the old clone wars multi media project from back in the 00s. When I say new I mean Disney specifically maybe including the 08 clone wars cartoon.
The only Star Trek or Star Wars shirt I currently own is black with yellow gold lettering saying "Star Trek" in the Star Wars font. I think it makes some people uncomfortable. My S.O. hates it. I think it's hilarious and I know immediately what type of "nerd" I'm dealing with based on people's reactions to it. I suspect most people don't realize it's a joke or they are worried that I don't know it's a joke.
That's fucking amazing. I love it. I want games like that for real now (they say, knowing full well that historically games made from movie and TV IP have been largely awful, alas):
Asteroids, but with Star Wars ships.
Galaga, but you fly voyager through Borg space, trans warp conduits, etc. Occasionally you pick up a clone or alternate timeline Voyager to fight along side you.
Space invaders I think would also be a good with a Starship Troopers skin and bugs lobbing rocks at your bases, could also be good in the style of Scorched Earth (or Worms Armageddon).
An Apple II style text only adventure game in Deep Space Nine.
A farming/trading/city sim on Babylon 5.
Civilization, but it's Babylon 5, Star Trek, or Star Wars, Dune, etc.
Old school 2.5D Zelda adventure game, but it's Firefly or The Expanse.
Now I'm trying to think of what I'm forgetting about trekkie gear from those books. All that comes immediately to mind is the Bob that names himself after Riker, but that's less gear and more a virtual persona or something.
On Kirk’s ship that means you die on an away mission. On Picard’s it means you give a Borg cube the middle finger while charging straight at it and somehow survive
That poll broke containment real real quick in tumblr then, as it pops up on my dashboard a lot and no one I follow is Star Wars or adjacent at all lol.
I really don't understand why a user base predisposed to Lemmy is okay with using a proprietary centralized service that isn't globally accessible. I might understand it if Lemmy didn't support image uploads, but it does.
It's like you're not okay with your text being censored by private corporations and governments, but here, take my images and please make sure some people can't see it.
I get that some probably have muscle memory for certain services but it just seems like the majority here don't even care to unlearn it.
Star Wars shirts are a lot more common for cheap in stores like Walmart, to be bought on a whim. Star Trek shirts have to be specifically sought out online or at conventions or something, and tend to cost more.
That's why I, a trekkie, own more Star Wars shirts than Star Trek ones.
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Xerxos@lemmy.ml · 70 pts · 177d
I think part of it is also that a random stranger in a star wars shirt can be anyone. A random stranger in a star trek shirt is a nerd, and therefore more likely to be a cool dude.
Kirk@startrek.website · 26 pts · 177d
Yes exactly, you can walk up to anyone in a Star Trek shirt and by simply saying the phrase "favorite captain?" you'll probably have a new friend two hours later.
clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 176d
Oh man, there were a pair of middle-aged guys at the table behind me at a restaurant recently, and I SO BADLY wanted to join their conversation! Favorite Romulan ship class, U.S.S. Pegasus: treaty violation or necessary development?, Best DS9 episodes... they were my kind of people.
Kirk@startrek.website · 2 pts · 176d
I have absolutely randomly jumped into a conversation like that before 🤣
clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 176d
I would have at least tried, but I was with my family and didn't want to abandon them.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 177d
The star wars equivalent of this is dropping a tactical nuke with the question of modern or old lore and then asking for their favorite era.
zjti8eit@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 172d
I'm unaware of any star wars fan that would say new. Especially if you count episode 1 as new
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 172d
I know plenty of folks who love the old clone wars multi media project from back in the 00s. When I say new I mean Disney specifically maybe including the 08 clone wars cartoon.
HalfSalesman@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 177d
Yeah, it'd have to be a specific piece of Star Wars media the shirt referenced to compete for me. Like KOTOR or Andor.
Sanctus@anarchist.nexus · 54 pts · 177d
The fandom knows itself
Wolf314159@startrek.website · 47 pts · 177d
The only Star Trek or Star Wars shirt I currently own is black with yellow gold lettering saying "Star Trek" in the Star Wars font. I think it makes some people uncomfortable. My S.O. hates it. I think it's hilarious and I know immediately what type of "nerd" I'm dealing with based on people's reactions to it. I suspect most people don't realize it's a joke or they are worried that I don't know it's a joke.
FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 177d
I have a Space Invaders shirt with warbirds and the Enterprise as your ship at the bottom. Sadly no one has recognized it as trek yet
Wolf314159@startrek.website · 3 pts · 176d
That's fucking amazing. I love it. I want games like that for real now (they say, knowing full well that historically games made from movie and TV IP have been largely awful, alas):
zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 176d
I would play all of these.
wild@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 176d
Nice. I have one with a pic of the Enterprise and "Star Wars #1 Fan"
Stampela@startrek.website · 43 pts · 177d
Agent641@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 177d
In a fight, side with the person with the Stargate shirt. They probably have a gun and a claymore.
Stampela@startrek.website · 18 pts · 177d
Or with the person wearing a red shirt, as it’ll… act as a lightning rod of sorts.
pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip · 15 pts · 177d
And C4, obviously.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 177d
and naquadria enhanced NUKES, or blowing up the stargate, which is a "super nuke"
VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 177d
As in a mine or as in a sword?
FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 177d
Try breaking into O’Neill’s room and you’ll meet one then the other
charonn0@startrek.website · 37 pts · 177d
Me over here in my Spaceballs shirt.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works · 28 pts · 177d
Spaceballs and Galaxy Quest make you not just trusted, but require instant friendship.
pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 177d
I am your nephew's second cousin's boyfriend's roommate's uncle's brother!
GraniteM@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 177d
What does that make us?
pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 177d
Absolutely nothing!
(Thank you for setting up the line!)
nonfuinoncuro@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 177d
never give up, never surrender!
unfortunately my view of trekkie gear has been clouded by reading the bobiverse novels...
CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social · 1 pts · 176d
Now I'm trying to think of what I'm forgetting about trekkie gear from those books. All that comes immediately to mind is the Bob that names himself after Riker, but that's less gear and more a virtual persona or something.
nonfuinoncuro@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 176d
the later books has a group of bobs that call themselves starfleet that becomes an important plot point
ThisUsernameKillsFascists@piefed.social · 25 pts · 177d
As a Star Wars fan, I heartily concur
trolololol@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 177d
Even if it's a red shirt? You could be stuck in the cross fire lolol
Lumidaub@feddit.org · 6 pts · 177d
Since the red shirt draws all the fire they'd be safer than anywhere else.
trolololol@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 176d
That's my point, if a red shirt walks behind you then you are between a disruptor and its target
Lumidaub@feddit.org · 3 pts · 176d
The shots just go around you.
FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 177d
On Kirk’s ship that means you die on an away mission. On Picard’s it means you give a Borg cube the middle finger while charging straight at it and somehow survive
Elting@piefed.social · 20 pts · 177d
Nobody hates a star wars fan like another star wars fan.
Agent641@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 177d
They are liking the thing I like the wrong way!
pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 177d
The bomber run physics were fine.
I'll see myself out.
FiskFisk33@startrek.website · 5 pts · 177d
Han didn't shoot first!
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 177d
123456 vs 456123 vs what was it, 451236?
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social · 1 pts · 177d
This but unironically.
It's a series famous for killing subtlety in cinema and you STILL DON'T GET IT REEEE
HorikBrun@kbin.earth · 18 pts · 177d
You...may have the best username I've ever seen.
HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 177d
Yeah, it's pretty good.
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 177d
Yours is better.
Steve@startrek.website · 4 pts · 177d
Hmmm
Agent641@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 177d
Hey Steve
juliebean@lemmy.zip · 13 pts · 177d
is tumblr a "Star Wars site" now?
Lumidaub@feddit.org · 21 pts · 177d
If anything, it's still a Doctor Who site, if we're going by "biggest science-fiction franchise", but why would this poll suggest that?
Edit: oh wait because "shared to Star Wars sites". They meant tumblr blogs.
RebekahWSD@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 177d
That poll broke containment real real quick in tumblr then, as it pops up on my dashboard a lot and no one I follow is Star Wars or adjacent at all lol.
USSBurritoTruck@startrek.website · 3 pts · 177d
I dunno, I've never heard of it.
cv_octavio@piefed.ca · 12 pts · 176d
_stranger_@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 177d
uber_chicken@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 177d
Content not available in my region 😭
Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 177d
Here, I'll copy/paste it.
With Imgur and Reddit having all the silly restrictions, I'm not sure why more people don't upload their images directly to Lemmy?
Lumidaub@feddit.org · 9 pts · 177d
I always feel bad for uploading anything here because I feel like I'm wasting precious space. Yes I know it probably doesn't matter at all but still.
uber_chicken@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 177d
Thank you 🙂
ashughes@feddit.uk · 14 pts · 177d
I really don't understand why a user base predisposed to Lemmy is okay with using a proprietary centralized service that isn't globally accessible. I might understand it if Lemmy didn't support image uploads, but it does.
It's like you're not okay with your text being censored by private corporations and governments, but here, take my images and please make sure some people can't see it.
I get that some probably have muscle memory for certain services but it just seems like the majority here don't even care to unlearn it.
uber_chicken@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 177d
Probably just habit. Or maybe a bot account?
I'm in England, so maybe the government have blocked it 👍😭 Sign of things to come I guess
Gonzako@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 177d
Get a better region mate
uber_chicken@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 177d
Trying. I'll keep you updated 😂
SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 177d
grue@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 177d
Star Wars shirts are a lot more common for cheap in stores like Walmart, to be bought on a whim. Star Trek shirts have to be specifically sought out online or at conventions or something, and tend to cost more.
That's why I, a trekkie, own more Star Wars shirts than Star Trek ones.
SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 177d
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 176d
Nah, plenty of geeky online stores in all places around the world.
But they do tend to have a limited selection of Star Trek shirts compared to Star Wars.
lime@feddit.nu · 4 pts · 177d
yeah not a good look to have pictures of space nazi soldiers on your chest
Damage@feddit.it · 6 pts · 177d
There's a guy at a customer's IT that regularly wears a Rebel Alliance hoodie. I've been wary of him since I first saw him.
SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 177d
Nomorereddit@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 176d
It’s not fair! How can you be on the Poll and not be a Master?
ohulancutash@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 173d
In SW the Empire are the bad guys, in ST the empire are the good guys.