Daystrom Institute
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Serious, in-depth discussion about Star Trek from both in-universe and real world perspectives.
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Rules
1. Explain your reasoning
All threads and comments submitted to the Daystrom Institute must contain an explanation of the reasoning put forth.
2. No whinging, jokes, memes, and other shallow content.
This entire community has a “serious tag” on it. Shitposts are encouraged in Risa.
3. Be diplomatic.
Participate in a courteous, objective, and open-minded fashion. Be nice to other posters and the people who make Star Trek. Disagree respectfully and don’t gatekeep.
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5. Tag spoilers.
Historically Daystrom has not had a spoiler policy, so you may encounter untagged spoilers here. Ultimately, avoiding online discussion until you are caught up is the only certain way to avoid spoilers.
6. Stay on-topic.
Threads must discuss Star Trek. Comments must discuss the topic raised in the original post.
Episode Guides
The /r/DaystromInstitute wiki held a number of popular Star Trek watch guides. We have rehosted them here:
- Kraetos’ guide to Star Trek (the original series)
- Algernon_Asimov’s guide to Star Trek: The Animated Series
- Algernon_Asimov’s guide to Star Trek: The Next Generation
- Algernon_Asimov’s guide to Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
- Darth_Rasputin32898’s guide to Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
- OpticalData’s guide to Star Trek: Voyager
- petrus4’s guide to Star Trek: Voyager
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Great, guys. I go through the trouble of purchasing "daystrominstitute.us" and standing up a Digital Ocean droplet and just found out that somebody way more competent beat me to the punch! /s
I'd like to share a few thoughts, if I may.
I still don't know the technical abilities of the Fediverse at-large and how customizable individual servers are. So some of these may be impossible or irrelevant.
~~1) I'd like to see a summary page of hosting costs with the ability to help out. We're kinda on our own here and nobody should have to bear the Brunt alone.~~
~~2) It would be nice to see an onboarding wiki to show new users. Maybe explaining how the concepts here map to their equivalent Reddit terms.~~
With that said, I'm genuinely thrilled to see people back and can't wait to dive back in to reading fanon so detailed that it makes a doctoral dissertation look like a shopping list.
Cheers!
Edit: Perusing the threads and it looks like most everything I wanted is already here!