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      I have never watched even a single episode of Star Trek

      but I like you guys for your memes.

      Okay, call off the mob!

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      Start with Star Trek: The Next Generation, and move on from there. The first season has some quirks, but by the second it’s solid gold.

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        I started watching TNG just recently and am nearly done with season 2. Season 1 is not nearly as bad as the internet led me to believe, and honestly I kinda miss some things from it a little bit.

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      Well, there’s a bit of everything in the fandom. What sort of series and movies do you like? I’m sure we’ll be stumbling to recommend you specific episodes Abe possibly even a movie or two.

      (TBH I don’t care much for the movies, expect for the Kelvin timeline, for which I’m sure I’ll burn at the stake.)

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    One preaches hope for a better future.

    One preaches a never ending cycle of ambition, corruption, and cruelty.

    Who would have ever thought time would prove Star Wars more thematically realistic 😂

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      Star Wars was based on the past but set in the future. They borrowed “stormtroopers” from Hitler. The space battles are just like WWII dogfights. Star Wars was never looking forward it was looking backwards.

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    StarTrek all the way, actual REAL peaceful space communists or religious Knights with magic powers? That’s not a hard choice

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      Space explorers … or … authoritarian space soldiers fighting religious space fanatics

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      Why does it feel like this comment section is assuming someones values based on their enjoyment of works of fiction haha

      I like both for different reasons. And I don’t think that really says much about my values at all

      It’s entertainment, people!

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    Especially this one:

    Either you’re into Star Trek and understand the self-burn vibes here or it’s just a random not-overly-nerdy shirt.

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      I just applied for my UK passport and the photo I gave to them was me in a red T-shirt with the TOS delta on it. I’m guessing the delta will be cropped out, but here’s hoping.

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    When people conjure mental male representation of Star Wars, they think of fat neckbeard Lucas and the lizard. When they think of Star Trek, they imagine sly silver fox Picard and Datas most probable mechanical prowess.

    This tracks.

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    Total stranger in a Stargate T shirt. They probably have way more firepower, and enough C4 to solve all my problems.

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    Jizz was first mentioned in canon in Star Wars: Return of the Jedi junior novelization, authored by Ryder Windham and released in 2017.

    Oh, then they absolutely knew.

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      The Return of the Jedi novelization introduced the term “jizz-wailer” to describe a musician, but the term “jizz” as the name of the musical style was not introduced until the publication of Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina, twelve years later.

      The original RotJ novelization was released in 1983. Don’t discount Legends!

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        Yeah, that unfortunate term has been around forever. I think I first ran across it in a West End Games sourcebook from 1990-ish.

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            Etymology is not destiny, and in particular Jazz was established before the sexual meaning of the root was firmly (hehheh) established.

            Nah, man, Lucas clearly just wasn’t familiar with the term and let it slide with the original ROTJ novelization, or the 1984 reference book, or wherever it was that it first popped up. Well, that, or they were just trolling us all along. 🤣