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TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name

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/c/TenFoward: Your home-away-from-home for all things Star Trek!

Re-route power to the shields, emit a tachyon pulse through the deflector, and post all the nonsense you want. Within reason of course.

~ 1. No bigotry. This is a Star Trek community. Remember that diversity and coexistence are Star Trek values. Any post/comments that are racist, anti-LGBT, or generally "othering" of a group will result in removal/ban.

~ 2. Keep it civil. Disagreements will happen both on lore and preferences. That's okay! Just don't let it make you forget that the person you are talking to is also a person.

~ 3. Use spoiler tags. This applies to any episodes that have dropped within 3 months prior of your posting. After that it's free game.

~ 4. Keep it Trek related. This one is kind of a gimme but keep as on topic as possible.

~ 5. Keep posts to a limit. We all love Star Trek stuff but 3-4 posts in an hour is plenty enough.

~ 6. Try to not repost. Mistakes happen, we get it! But try to not repost anything from within the past 1-2 months.

~ 7. No General AI Art. Posts of simple AI art do not 'inspire jamaharon'

~ 8. No Political Upheaval. Political commentary is allowed, but please keep discussions civil. Read here for our community's expectations.

Fun will now commence.


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Want your community to be added to the sidebar? Just ask one of our mods!


Honorary Badbitch:

@[email protected] for realizing that the line used to be "want to be added to the sidebar?" and capitalized on it. Congratulations and welcome to the sidebar. Stamets is both ashamed and proud.


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Hey and let me the first, and a happy first, to welcome you to /c/TenForward, a place dedicated to hanging out and talking Trek. Whether you're theorizing about old tech (or a new season), talking about your favorite class of ship (Crossfield, but are you surprised?) or just wanting to check out some memes, Ten Forward is the place for you.

Ten Forward was founded with the express purpose of providing a calm, relaxing hangout atmosphere where people could talk about all aspects of Trek. A community that was built to be a real community with friends and strangers coming together to help entertain each other and provide a happy place for us all to go. We want this community to be broad enough to encompass all things Trek under one umbrella, whether that be your typical source of memes, some recent news about a new Picard movie in the mix, some really cool fan art you've found or just how existentially horrifying the transporters really are.

We do have a set of rules in the sidebar but they're no more stringent or severe than you would see in any other general subreddit, but we do ask people to be familiar with them and to follow them to the best of their ability. They're all pretty basic though. Be kind to one another, don't be bigoted, try to avoid negativity and support people when you can, stick to being on topic (as long as it's Trek related, you're good!) and try to tag recent spoilers of anything released within the last 3-ish months.

And who are here to enforce the rules and help provide the community with a framework of what to expect? Well there's myself of course but also the stellar @[email protected], the celestial @[email protected] and the out-of-this-world @[email protected]! And of course we won't just be moderating but posting as well. And boy do I personally have a backlog from dealing with personal stuff over the past month or so. If you have any issues with something you see, please report it. If you feel that mod action wasn't particularly fair, reach out to one of us. We're here to help provide a great experience for everyone across the board.

So welcome to /c/TenForward! And to borrow, and slightly alter, a quote from a man I miss everyday...

Since my customary farewell would appear oddly self-serving, I shall simply say... πŸ–– ... Have fun.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Is there a reason for this community as opposed to Risa? Is it just another instance to talk about Star Trek, or was there some Risa drama I'm not aware of?

I just noticed Risa doesn't have an explicit no bigotry rule, so I'm all for a community with one.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Risa came over from reddit initially and the general framework did too. Part of the framework though was "there are no real rules". Ten Forward has a slightly different moderation philosophy. We believe that clearly defined rules are needed for a relaxed and chill environment and that the rules aren't shackles but benefit everyone, both the posters and the mods. Without them, you're not entirely sure what's okay and what's not. Ten Forward also has a larger moderation team who are all active both across lemmy and in the community itself.

No drama. Just a difference of opinion on how to run a community.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 11 months ago (2 children)

(Creator of both Risas here)

"No real rules" worked just fine for years, in practice I enforced the same self-evident conduct boundaries that you have outlined here. If you have to tell someone to be civil and tolerant then that person was going to ignore the rules even if they had been communicated.

But since I stopped modding, the mod there seems to have moved beyond these boundaries without committing to any actual rules. This is totally unsurprising given the way that group of mods runs their communities, so I'm glad to see this place pop up.

For what it's worth, /r/TenForward was my first choice back on Reddit but it was taken and set private. Feels like we've come full circle!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago

Well, welcome over here buddy. More than happy to pull our favorite Security Officer into the fold. May not be from a Starfleet vessel but by golly you're one of us.

Also had no idea you were the one who created both Risas. That's pretty dope! Thank you for providing a great place for so long and for all the hard work you did as a mod <3

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

Wow! We are glad to have you here! Feel free to stay for a Romulan Ale:

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Risa doesn’t have an explicit no bigotry rule

Actually Risa's entire instance has a "no bigotry" policy with offending accounts "immediately suspended without appeal".

[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for the welcome, I wouldn’t have noticed the move, and congrats to everyone involved!

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/c35d9721-d4cd-4471-93e7-0166e25e73a8.png

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Of course! Welcome to the subspace fold buddy.

Also top tier image. I'm stealing it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Thanks! And it’s one of my favorites lol, enjoy!

[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

Those Swear Trek gifs are some of the best things ever made

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

or just how existentially horrifying the transporters really are.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Here's the other half of that "accident"

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The fact that both Saru and that creature are played by the same man delights me so much

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Need someone extra lanky and willing to undergo hours of makeup? Call Doug Jones.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

You forgot the best one!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

As if you needed another reason to love Saru, right?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

You can't forget the sound that thing makes too.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Welcome to the subspace fold my friend <3

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Can I ask how you go about creating a gif like this? I assume you grabbed a captionless version but how did you add the text and put it in different spots for the "right" "right"...?

I'd love to contribute more but have no idea how to make these things! (Hence, most of my posts are in a simple joke c, fakehistoryporn)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (6 children)

No worries, I make clips like this by cutting mp4s from the movies to the length I want with vidcutter, then use ffmpeg on the command line to convert them to gifs, then use gifsicle to combine them if there are multiples (If you’re on windows I’m thinking the gif would be simpler to make?) then use gifntext dot com to add the captions. Each "Right" was a different caption that I placed at different levels. If you get stuck I can help you out

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (8 children)

I'm saving this comment too. I'd love to start making gifs.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

More than happy to help out if you run into any trouble

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for this guys!

It's great to see a new community forming and to start something new with a group of positive people. The old sites and the old names have run their course and this is a breath of much needed fresh air that will give everyone something new to build on.

For us lurkers and newbies, we feel like the lower decks crew members who join in once in a while. But it's great to have a core group of positive people looking out for us.

I joined Lemmy during the reddit exodus last June and it was a learning experience. It's frustrating to find your way through something new on your own but in that mess Stamets was a positive force that made it fun. I don't know people but I do know kindness and that is all I've ever received from him. And that is why I'm here.

Thanks guys for everything you do ... and thanks for creating this space.

Ten Forward!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

And thank you for adding that kindness back in. Have seen nothing but awesomeness from you everywhere and more than glad to see you here. Also glad to be able to call you a friend.

You're a really great dude, dude <3

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I was so close to doing exactly what you have just done. Thank you for saving me from the inevitable misery. :)

An mashup of r/startrek, risa, and daystrominstitute? Without oppressive moderation? Run by one of Lemmy's breakout memers? I seldom subscribe to something on sight.

Live fast and prosper! πŸ––

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Welcome buddy! Hopefully this place is all that we dream of. So glad to have you here <3

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Hey! Thanks for making this community. I look forward to spending entirely too much time here.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

And I look forward to seeing all your dope OC my man <3

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

And I'm celebrating with you, brother! Boogie to the second star on the right and dance in that glorious starlight

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Hell yeah. Ten Forward is the coolest place to be. Also, I'm often offering unwanted advice based on my absurd, stranger-than-fiction life experiences so I know I belong.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I've been watching TOS for the past months and we enjoy looking up trivia about the actors from the 60s.

This is Bruce Mars, just another up and coming actor that was building his career when he suddenly quit everything and became a religious Monk for the Self-Realization Fellowship in Los Angeles. Notable for even counseling Elvis Presley.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Looking forward to stopping by Ten Forward for a drink

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Nothing. Community still exists. But myself and others have a different moderation philosophy and wanted to set up our own place so we made TenForward

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (7 children)

Risa has a single moderator. We have a large and robust team (edit: I typed in teal for some reason). Risas moderator is barely active on Lemmy and not at all in communities he isn't a mod in. Our mods are active across lemmy. The most important though is that Risa has no rules which makes it unclear for users and mods what is okay and what isn't. We have clearly defined rules to give a framework for everyone.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

First Risa, now Ten Forward. Can't wait for Quark's.

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