Other than myself, everyone I know IRL into Star Trek is married.
Er... I guess I can't count my dad anymore since mom died... ๐ค
this post was submitted on 22 Oct 2024
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Not only am I not single. My Trekkie wife and I produced a daughter that has no interest in Star Trek whatsoever!
I am so ashamed. I failed as a parent.
If she's younger, the proper course of action would be to forbid her from watching ST:Prodigy.
She's 14. That no longer works.
At 14, I can see you're right.
Instead I might go with, "The world you are going to enter as adult woman is largely set up to diminish who you are and only because of your gender. I hate to say it, but misogyny is alive and well in society and the workplace. This is especially true if you go into a mostly male dominated profession. One of the reasons I like Star Trek (TNG and beyond) is because it depicts a future where women are much more equal to men than they are today. I'll be the first to say its far from perfect. If you're looking for role models on TV you could do far worse that Kira Nerys that stood up to invaders to her home before she became the highest ranking member of her people in the show or B'Elanna Torres that became the Chief Engineer on the starship through her knowledge, experience, and tenacity. You are who you are and I love you for it. You don't have to do any of the things the women on Star Trek do, but I want you to know that no one can place limits on what you accomplish except those you choose for yourself."
The problem is that she doesn't like sci-fi very much. That won't really solve that problem.
It's probably a phase. Or maybe she just hasn't experience the right gateway Trek yet.
if it's just a phase, we can simply modulate the frequency of the subharmonic phase generator. and reverse the polarity of the deflector dish if that doesn't work
If all else fails: reprogrammed Borg nanoprobes.
Well it's a 14-year-old phase.
She likes animation a lot and doesn't even care about Lower Decks! Sigh.
I can't get her into MST3K either. What have I been raising?
Mine turns eleven this month. Dislikes Star Wars and Star Trek. Loves magical girl anime and Pokemon. We have been able to share some stuff though: Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts, Netflix She-Ra, Gravity Falls, ATLA and Korra. However, if people spend 1% too long in a spaceship, she is DONE.
Mine loves "obscure" anime, cult movies and non-fictional stuff. She also loved She-Ra, Gravity Falls, Avatar, etc. Just the sci-fi stuff turns her off overall. If it's weird cult movie sci-fi she tends to like it, but straight up sci-fi bores her.
But but... Lower Decks has Eugene Cordero! MST3k has Crow T Robot! Does she know about Eugene and Crow?
She knows about Crow. Eugene not so much. She doesn't know who Jerry O'Connell is either. Has she not seen Stand By Me and Sliders?
Oh wait, she hasn't.
What about prodigy? Lower Decks is kinda meh at the beginning TBH.
So is Prodigy though. I didn't stick with it at first because the first two or three episodes weren't great. I'm glad I went back to it.
True.
I am not single, yet I've been a Trek fan since elementary school. Curious?