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Trek Fandom Positivity

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Star Trek is Re-Energizing. And We Need It Now More Than Ever - TheHumanist.com

Star Trek is much more than an allegory. It is a possible outcome of us.

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how to get over star trek: deep space nine

you don’t

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There was a much older woman who came to a convention once. She simply raised her sleeve and showed me the numbers tattooed on her arm, and said what my character meant to her. And that was overwhelming and a sock in the gut.

Nana Visitor (aka Kira Nerys from DS9) re: the impact her character had on those who had been oppressed (x)

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“Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in life forms.” - Gene Rodenberry

Images from Trekcore

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Happy International Universal Women’s Day

[wearestarfleet]

It has shown me that it is okay to love a show so much that you want to create more content to appreciate it.

How has Star Trek fandom improved your life? | Chelsey

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It was through fandom I found other people who were interested in seeing LGBT issues portrayed (better) in Trek.

How has Star Trek fandom enhanced your relationship with the series? | @vasnormandy

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Who is your favourite Trek character and why? | @autisticqueer

Janeway. I don't know if I could ever put my finger on it. She makes me feel safe. Lmao thats weird. But her confidence as captain, and her devotion to her crew always struck me as sincere and genuine.

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Generations

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The Star Trek fandom has provided me with a community that I never expected to find when I posted my first fanfiction story on FFN.  I had been writing fanfiction since I was a kid, but as a teen, I was not tech savvy, and without much internet access in those days, I was never part of a real fandom.  As an adult, I rediscovered my love for writing and finally dared to post something on FFN.  From that, I met other writers, including some who have become close friends in RL as well as in the online fandom.  It is an incredibly supportive community and I have found tremendous value in my conversations with many of them, both about Trek and about our personal lives.  I have made good and true friends and have also been challenged as a writer by a wonderful editor who doesn't let me get away with anything and who always helps me push my writing to the next level.  I have learned so much from writing fanfiction and, I hope, become a better writer and storyteller because of it.

How has Star Trek fandom improved your life? | @kjaneway115

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Great fanfiction keeps the characters alive for me.

How has Star Trek fandom enhanced your relationship with the series? | Buddy

Reblog with links to great fanfiction!

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Who is your favourite Trek character and why? | Leisy

Janeway because she’s.... Perfect.

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I dove headfirst into Trek fandom with the release of the first reboot movie in 2009, just after I'd left an abusive relationship. I found great creative unbottling there, as well as connections with people from all corners of the internet and the world. Star Trek in general has shaped my life by instilling in me, from a young age, the credo of approaching the world with a sense of curiosity and learning.

How has Star Trek fandom improved your life? | @opentheyear

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It made it watchable? Haha. It was hard to go from DS9 into some of the other series, and I remember someone actually made me a watch guide so I could venture into the other series gradually, seeing first the themes and things I liked, and then, when that had taken hold, I could watch the rest. I have found this amazing corner of Internet aunts who are so smart and not afraid to be strong or soft (or think these things are mutually exclusive). They have helped me identify non-progressive themes and encouraged me to write around them or headcanon a fix. I am more creative because of them, and I am a better writer because I've read their thoughts. Seeing the series through their eyes gives me perspective...and their passion is contagious.

How has Star Trek fandom enhanced your relationship with the series? | @reflectingiridescent

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Who is your favourite Trek character and why? | @noelevangilinecarson

Kathryn [Janeway] because she's so beautifully complex and flawed, but at the same time, she is a fierce leader who would do anything for a member of her crew. Also, I'm gay.

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Star Trek has encouraged me to be a better person; to empathize with others and consider an alternate point of view.

How has Star Trek fandom improved your life? | @trekklogg

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In general, it's just lovely to see everyone celebrating and critiquing and expanding on the canon stories, and to have a chance to read new perspectives from an incredibly varied and diverse group of fellow fans. A more specific perk is that my favorite series is Voyager, and my favorite character is Captain Janeway, and I love all the meta and fanfiction about her character and her arc. Even more specifically, I really enjoy the fact that in late-2010s Tumblr Voyager fandom, many people--from my fellow fic-writing meta-analyzing fandom-dwelling fans to Voyager fans who post one thing in the Janeway tag and are never seen again--refer to Janeway as having clinical depression. The character's depression is fairly explicit (and occasionally mentioned in a non-fandom review or article, too) but never referred to as such on-screen, so it's really nice, as a person with depression, to get to see that part of the story discussed in as many words, and to get to read others' writing about a shared beloved fictional character with the same problem I have.

How has Star Trek fandom enhanced your relationship with the series? | @warp6