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Star Trek fan of all Star Trek, Avid player of Star Trek Online. Also playing FFXIV, main class: GNB

Springfield, oregon
Joined August 2009
Hey guys, I have been mulling around with this for a long time, but I finally decided to share this. I'm developing a Star Trek Online fanfic based on the Temporal Recruitment event. Below here is a prelude chapter: drive.google.com/file/d/1991…
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Honestly, I'm SOOOO ready for 2026 to be over. Losing Walter Koenig AND now Sir Patrick Stewart in the span of a week? RIP to them both. This week is REALLY a hard week to be a Trekkie, no matter which side of the fandom you might be on.
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Since Teag had me blocked, I'll answer this here. In November, they're releasing a Star Trek magic: the Gathering set & there will be special cards in it signed by seven actors. Three of them are Kirk, Janeway & Picard. It's ALL of Star Trek btw NuTrek included.
What is that from? They really did that?
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I honestly hate the fact that we found out more about the movie & it's nothing but fans condemning it. I had a feeling that this was going to happen. Instead of being open anymore, people are dismissing it & even reading into what's being said about fans WAY too much.
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I decided that I wanted to share a couple of pictures of one of my characters & his bridge crew from Star Trek Online, just for fun. This is Shev, my TOS Captain Shev & his bridge officer Tarsi, in the TOS uniform & the SNW equivalent uniform:
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Following on, here's the next two bridge officers, Skavrin & T'Met:
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I'm replying this way because of course I'm still blocked by RMB, but first & foremost, I respect your personal decision not to consider it as a valid source. I however researched it & their stance has ALWAYS been since 2003 that they reflect stuff that's been on-screen.
Replying to @RMBee
I have been saying this for YEARS! Memory Alpha allowed themselves to be assimilated very early on in Kurtzman's destruction of Star Trek, starting with Discovery (on TV). It really started in 2009 when he created the Kelvin timeline for JJ Abrams. The mission, from day one, was to ERASE original Star Trek and use the name to make something entirely different and monitize it. Grok found my most recent, but there are many other comments where I rant about this. Grok: @ShadowMann9 (Shadow Mann) has repeatedly criticized and rejected Memory Alpha (the Star Trek wiki) as a reliable canon source. His main objections center on it incorporating “NuTrek” (Discovery, related shows, Kelvin timeline elements, etc.) without clear separation, which he views as contamination, gaslighting, or assimilation of original (pre-2005/OG) Star Trek canon.
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The thing is, you only have a couple of alternatives I can think of: - just holding onto what you know & what you can find from the episodes for what you need to know - Take on the monumental task of creating a wiki that is tailored to pre-2016 NuTrek. The latter was tried.
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The problem with the latter is that unless you have a drive & the community to help you maintain it, it pretty much falls apart quickly, which makes any attempt a waste of time & effort.
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So that fan film, Axanar: The Gathering Storm that got released at SDCC this last week? DMCA'd on Youtube by Paramount/CBS Studios. Looked into it & they list it as Part IV AND it's got a total run time of 20 minutes. The limit for a fan film is 15 minutes.
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If there is one thing that I'm sticking to my guns about with #StarTrek, it's this notion that gutting a decade's worth of canon from it (NuTrek) will somehow leave the franchise in a better place moving forward. IMHO, it will NOT leave the franchise in a better place.
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Let's say you get rid of the last decade of Star Trek. Someone comes in that creates new canon that may not be liked. Where do you draw the line that you'll actually accept what people are trying to do if you have to keep high standards of what you want to begin with?
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No other franchise that I know of has deleted on screen canon just because people didn't like it. Most franchises like Marvel & DC have multiverses which allow for multiple interpretations. Doctor Who & Star Wars likely won't reset their canon at all & neither should Star Trek.
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I've honestly never seen someone who was more wrong about gender dysphoria than what he says here. Elliot didn't transition because of the sexual abuse, but because of how long he has been uncomfortable in his body from the time he was young. The sexual abuse though didn't help.
People call you hateful for noticing mental illness problems here, but it's not hate that's driving people's reactions. It's clear there's something wrong. And what the LGBTQ lobbies don't tell you is almost every one of these instances stems from sexual abuse. Instead of helping someone like Ellen Page process it, they encourage her to mutilate her body, take hormones, and screw herself up more. Putting a stop to normalizing this is helping people who are in desperate need. If anything is hateful, it's further encouraging their destruction. Do you agree?
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It's always funny when I point out to someone regarding STO factual information to obliterate their point, then they pull the "you're a new player, so you don't know what you're talking about" card, then block me. I've been playing STO since 2012. Everyone plays differently.
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I will never block someone because I disagree with them. All that does is end the conversation so you can feel like you win. I have multiple characters. But I don't have the mindset that I NEED more all the time. What I have is plenty for what I want with STO.
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Honestly so excited over the Magic: The Gathering news regarding Marvel Super Heroes! Through the Omenpaths was a decent compromise, but lacked any flavor. At least the resources spent will be worth it since they'll grant everyone the Spider-Man set equivalents!
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Honestly, this is about the WORST that you can do. Someone closing themselves off to only people that are verified creates an echo chamber that you only want to interact with people willing to pay for better features on this platform.
Yeah new policy effective immediately. I will not reply to you if you're not a blue check unless you're a follower. I have to assume you're a bot. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
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