Come to Quark's, Quark's is Fun!
Come to Quark's, Quark's is Fun!
Welcome to startrek.website's fourth community, Quark's!
This community is a general off-topic zone for the insightful and good looking explorers of this Lemmy instance. Why make an off-topic forum for a Lemmy instance, you ask? As you are probably already aware, this Lemmy instance is different from most as we are phaser-focused on Star Trek. But the fans are just as an important part of Star Trek as any other part, so we want to provide a place for Trekkies to be Trekkies together as we embark on the adventure that is growing the Fediverse together.
Put differently, if the rest of this instance is the rest of the station where we are all "on-duty"—talking about Star Trek—together, this community is for having a blood wine, Aldebaran whiskey, or even a root beer together.
What kind of stuff might you chat about here? Good question! Some examples might be...
- Lemmy and the Fediverse at large. What are your second, third, and fourth favorite instances? Have your found fun Star Trek or sci-fi content on other ActivityPub based services such as Mastodon or Pixelfed? Have you found an app you like? Talk about it here!
- Other sci-fi have you been reading, playing, and watching? What do you recommend? What book is your all time favorite? What game did you get in the Steam sale that you can't stop playing? What show are you binging that almost interfered with keeping up with Strange New Worlds season 2?
- startrek.website itself. Young platforms and new communities love to talk about themselves; some people are into that and some aren't. We're scoping that kind of discussion to here so it can be easily found or ignored depending on your desires. More to the point, sometimes we need a place to talk about startrek.website itself. Information related to downtime, instance upgrades, and important security updates will be posted here.
- Anything within reason and good taste, really. It's an off-topic forum!
The one rule is don't make Odo come down here, i.e. don't be a jerk. We're converting all your tabs from latinum to Fed credits so drinks are on the house. And of course, this is more suggestion than rule, but don't get sucked into a conversation with Morn. You'll be stuck here for days.
One root beer, please. Also I like Farscape and Babylon 5. Also "Atlantis" is the "Voyager" of Stargate, I won't explain further because this isn't c/Daystrom. BSG is melodramatic and overrated. Lastly, this is the best website I've ever seen.
If anyone agrees on a majority of those points we may now commence friendship.
Full agreement. Cheers!
Have you heard the rumors about Odo's romance?
I'd like to book Holosuite Three for the next six hours, please.
Jeepers….
Whatever you’re doing, stay hydrated.
Marvellous. Thanks to those who’ve agreed to mod!
I’d been looking to chat about other sci-fi with Trekkies. Hanging out on the science fiction communities on other instances isn’t quite doing it for me simply because Trek remains my first and longest frame of reference for speculative fiction - whether visual media or print.
I’d also love to discuss Treklit. We’re not quite at the critical mass for a dedicated community for that yet, but I get the sense that I’m not the only one ready for a deep dive on the books and comics. Perhaps this might be a better spot for it for now.
So, I’m pulling up a virtual tall stool, leaning my elbow on the counter, and ordering a large glass of dark and chewy Andorian ale.
Fun non-Trek things I’d love to chat about…
Television:
— Space 1999
— The Starlost
— Farscape
— The Expanse
— SurrealEstate
— Silo
Space Opera fiction:
— CJ Cherryh - Alliance-Union Universe; Foreigner series
— Lois McMaster Bujold - Vorkosigan Saga
— Lee and Miller - Korval series
— Adrian Tchaikovsky - Final Architect trilogy