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Why are so many Star Trek/Sci Fi YouTubers far right? (startrek.website)

submitted 1 year ago by startrekexplained@startrek.website to c/quarks@startrek.website

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Here's a few examples:

The Popcast (recently made a video warning of the "dangers" of the Barbie movie because it's feminist. Now Im going to go see it lol), Midnights Edge (general right wing conspiracy theories regarding media, occasional delving into new age crank too), Nerdrotic (thinks Hollywood is engineering a communist Red Guards plot to kill conservatives), The Critical Drinker (typical edgelord anti feminist), Dave Cullen (extreme anti feminist who believes in all the QAnon, Agenda 21 conspiracy theories).

And it goes on and on. I know there's popular left wing and liberal reviewers too, but for whatever reason so many of the ones I run into are far right. Is there some sort of draw for conservatives to geekdom or is something else going on?

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[–] startrekexplained@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Star Trek was always preachy though, the fact that NuTrek has nothing to say is something that turns me off from it. Also SNW is poorly named, theres almost no "strange new worlds" its all just Earth like planets with humans on it. The Orville actually has a fair share of "strange new worlds" and a better visual style, and better writing, etc.

[–] WhoRoger@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It has been, but not to this degree I feel. And when it was, it could at least occasionally be great at it, especially DS9. Or they could make an organic story around it. Or if nothing else, it could at least be amusingly dumb. The modern era is just "sit down you dummies, today's lesson is about X" and it's just an hour about how horrible/awesome that thing is.

As I said, SNW really does rehash old storylines and beats. Ya know, "if you try to save your crewmatss from this religious artefact, it will be an act lf war!" and "we're not so different after all, you weird weak emotional human and I, the commander of a bloodthirsty army who's gonna kill me in a few seconds" and "oh hey we conveniently time travelled into the past into the exact time where my skills will be useful and area where I can find friends" stuff.

Everything we've seen 5 times before... But I've been watching SNW with someone who's never seen Trek before and they're liking it. When I look at it like that, yea it mostly works.

[–] startrekexplained@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Actually I guess you're right now that I think about it, NuTrek does preach occasionally in a really dumb way, and often the wrong message IMO.

I’ve been watching SNW with someone who’s never seen Trek before

Yeah that's why I sometimes wish I haven't seen every 700 or so Trek episodes out there, because SNW would be far better then. Admittedly it's also a problem with The Orville as well, because they also rehashed and straight up ripped off old Trek episodes in an inferior way, but did enough original (for TV anyway) and interesting things for me to forgive this.