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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
05/29/09

In reply to Is Star Trek A Religion?
Short answer: no.

No god or gods or anything that won't eventually be explicable by science, no set-aside permanent places of worship, no prescribed rituals.

It's a philosophy, a hobby, or an entertainment, depending on your depth of interest.

But it's NOT a religion.
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ViciousWarGoose
05/29/09

In reply to Is Star Trek A Religion?
So...would the fans of the different series such as TNG and DS9 and Voyager be considered different denominations than the followers of TOS?
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NerD: Blattella
05/29/09

@ViciousWarGoose: No they would be considered more New Testaments to the old Series.

Enterprise is more like the Dead Sea Scrolls.

The new Movie would be more like one of the books left out of the King James version.
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NefariousNewt
05/29/09

@ViciousWarGoose: I think ST:TNG followers would be Protestants, DS9 followers would be Mormons, and Voyager followers... well... crazy. ;)
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Grey_Area
05/29/09

@NefariousNewt: So Babylon 5 fans are Rastafarians?
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NefariousNewt
05/29/09

@Grey_Area: I'll go with that, being a fan of Babylon 5 as well. Maybe they're Rosicrucians?
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tetracycloide
05/29/09

In reply to Is Star Trek A Religion?
priest: where they'll be no tribble at all!

congregation: all power to the engines!
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Torley
05/29/09

In reply to Is Star Trek A Religion?
Like other religions, Star Trek has continuity issues.
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JillianBean
05/29/09

In reply to Is Star Trek A Religion?
It would be impossible to deny that those Star Trek fans, myself included, have an awe-inspiring love for anything connected to or dealing with the fandom. There's the fairweather Christian who goes to church on Easter and Christmas, and the fairweather Star Trek fan who may just see the new movies when they come out. For others, there are levels of obsession and reverence that make the fandom seem almost cult-like. Whenever I hear disparaging remarks over the geek who puts on Spock ears and goes to conventions, I wonder how that's any different from weekly reading an old book about a magic guy who zombie-walked three days after his death?
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NefariousNewt
05/29/09

@JillianBean: Well, while not a religion, per se, it certainly could be considered the basis of one, and one that I think that would not only combine the better aspects of many of the current religions of Earth, but overlie them with the universal idea that we all count for something.

And not to disparage anyone, but I'm thinking that a religion based on Star Trek shall not provoke actual warfare, which would put it light-years ahead of many of the Earth's current belief systems. But if there is to be combat, I will offer my years of playing Star Fleet Battles in service to The Federation.
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Mount_Prion
05/29/09

In reply to Is Star Trek A Religion?
Well it sure makes a better space "religion" than scientology.
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NerD: Blattella
05/29/09

@Mount_Prion: C.U.C.A.R.A.C.H.A.: Good point.
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BerwinButterfly
05/29/09

In reply to Is Star Trek A Religion?
Isn't elevating science fiction to a religion how we ended up with Scientology?
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
05/31/09

@BerwinButterfly: Yeah but there's room for more than one science fiction based religion.
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F3st3r
05/29/09

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I guess I don't consider anything a religion unless wars have been started in it's name . . .
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MCTC
05/29/09

@F3st3r: Wars haven't been started in the name of *all* religions, even the most prominent and recognized. No one has ever declared a war in the name of Buddhism (I'm pretty sure, though I recommend checking that).
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Paul_Is_Drunk
05/29/09

@MaxChoi: "No one has declared war in the name of Buddhism."

You might want to do a little research on that.
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
05/31/09

@Paul_Is_Drunk: "No one has declared war in the name of Buddhism."

That's because those guys usually set themselves on fire, not others...
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phoenix
05/27/09

In reply to Can Zombies Be Sexy?
No. No they can't. Dammit. :(
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crashedpc - Haifisch
05/27/09

In reply to Can Zombies Be Sexy?
No! Necrophilia! No no no no!

Well, if she's fresh and still coherent. I like a girl with brains. Not a girl who wants to eat my brains.
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JohnnyZito
05/27/09

In reply to Can Zombies Be Sexy?
Undead anything is hot... I mean...

When I'm not making witty comments on IO9 I write a girl gang vs zombie web comic for DC.

All the men are zombies and the women survive in ultra violent gangs.

BlackCherryBombshells.com
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Annalee Newitz
05/27/09

@JohnnyZito: Wowzers. Looks awesome.
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Plague
05/27/09

In reply to Can Zombies Be Sexy?
I think Re-Penetrator sums up zombie sex quite well.
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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
05/26/09

In reply to What Gender Is Your Roomba?
All of our machines -- cars, VCRs, DVR's, computers, and if we had a Roomba -- are male.

Techie things are male, and they act as stubbornly and unpredictably as if they had a Y chromosome and testosterone.

Although one of the cars had a gender that, in human terms, might have been FTM at an early age (before we bought it).

Our VCR's all had Star Wars names, our first TiVo is "Little Mr. TiVo".

Most people I know, their inanimate objects are either neuter or male. Almost nothing female, even Roomba.
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twophrasebark
05/25/09

In reply to What Gender Is Your Roomba?
Let the robots decide for themselves.
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Meirelle
05/25/09

In reply to What Gender Is Your Roomba?
I don't have a Roomba. However, my car is male.
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