anyone that tries to say star trek has "gone woke" or some stupid shit like that clearly isn't a fan of it and just trying to rile up stuff. I mean come on... how can someone say that and have watched the shows LOL

Kinda hard to be a bigot when your favorite show is about a egalitarian socialist utopia

I have a theory:

Star Trek fans were some of the earlier cosplayers. Trekkies were wearing Starfleet uniforms and Vulcan ears to conventions decades before the word "cosplay" was a thing. My father has a book called the Starfleet Technical Manual published in the 70's that is basically an official guide for fans to build screen accurate costumes and props from, including sewing patterns for the various tunics and wrist-length dresses and a page of color swatches, plus dimensional drawings of tricorders, phasers and communicators.

And the public at large in the 1970s wasn't ready for that yet.

Hands up those old enough to remember the shitfest that erupted over Janeway (and/or Sisko)

I kinda lost it when Janeway fired more photon torpedos than the ship had upon entering the Delta quadrant. Where did she get the extra torpedoes?! She's a witch!

The entire Dune novel fanbase is also pretty decent. I like hanging out with him.

The Discworld fandom is another one you can't be in if you're an asshole because you clearly didn't understand the source material.

SHUT UP WE ARE NOT THE NICEST FAN BASE I WILL FIGHT YOU

Also, sorry everyone, I was a Trekkie first and I will always come back to Star Trek, but the MST3K fan base is the nicest fan base. The only two bitter arguments I've ever seen the community devolve into was Joel vs. Mike (now very moot) and "I hate Crow's new lady voice" for the most recent season. Other than that, everyone is super nice to a fault. The MST3K forums is the friendliest forum I have ever been on.

I'm out of the loop... What torpedo? What woman?

Meanwhile us Battlestar Galactica fans are over in the corner wondering why no one talks to us

Completely agree.

If I would ever be in desperate need of help it would instantly comfort me to see a trekkie or a metalhead. The average wholesomeness is ridiculously high.

So you're saying Star Trek needs its own version of Jar Jar?

Wait, but we already went crazy about a woman firing torpedoes. We went so crazy, we counted them.