it is weird to me to see the outpouring of love for Star Trek as an ideal form of science fiction today.
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I wanna make it clear that I don't begrudge anyone their love, nor do I not understand the popular thing is popular
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But rather that, as a teenager on the internet in the 1990s, learning and loving SF, Trek was usually held up as antagonistic to good SF
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To be fair a lot of this, but not all, is obviously having been a part of Babylon 5 fandom, which *had* to push back against Trek.
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that snobbish kind of fandom (which I was also part of) has been overwhelmed by the new kids on the Internet
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note that capital-F Fandom - as in fanfic - came out of Star Trek, is very into reclaiming mass market media,
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and is strongly distinct as a subculture from the "real" SF community of the Hugos and whatnot
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I think you can basically call it "TVTropes fandom" - it's called that bc this fandom is rooted primarily in TV
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which the hardcore fandom has always seen as an inferior medium to books or films
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