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This is the lemmy.ml Star Trek community.

There are many other Star Trek communities around the Lemmyverse, and there is a Lemmy instance entirely dedicated to the subject (startrek.website).

Here are links to some of those other communities:

/c/[email protected]: Serious, in-depth Star Trek discussion

/c/[email protected]: Star Trek memes and shitposts

/c/[email protected]: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name ("post all the nonsense you want")

/c/[email protected]: These are the voyages of the Starship Lenin.

/c/[email protected]: General Star Trek news and discussion

/c/[email protected]: Another general-purpose community

/c/[email protected]: Off-topic chat

/c/[email protected]: Star Trek Online discussion, tips, and tricks

/c/[email protected]: For fans of the Greatest Generation and Greatest Trek podcasts

/c/[email protected]: Meme-ory Alpha, another meme community

/c/[email protected]: Star Trek Memes & Shitposts

/c/[email protected]: A community for all things Star Trek.

/c/star_[email protected]: A Star Trek community where you’re free share your opinions about all things Trek.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Gene Roddenberry wrote lyrics to the Star Trek theme song, but he did it for kind of an asshole reason.

Without Courage's knowledge, Roddenberry wrote lyrics to the theme, not in the expectation that they would ever be sung, but in order to claim a 50% share of the music's performance royalties. Although there was never any litigation, Courage later commented that he considered Roddenberry's conduct unethical. Roddenberry was quoted as responding, "Hey, I have to get some money somewhere. I'm sure not gonna get it out of the profits of Star Trek."

source: https://www.lyricsondemand.com/tvthemes/startreklyrics.html

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Roddenberry did lots of things for asshole reasons. he wasn’t a very nice guy. the docuseries The Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek goes into a lot of detail about what happened with him behind the scenes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Did he right "noo nooooo nooo noo nooo"?