• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
    711·
    2 months ago

    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.

      • _NetNomad@fedia.io
        15·
        2 months ago

        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

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
        13·
        2 months ago

        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?

        • wjrii@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          2 months ago

          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.

          • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
            3·
            2 months ago

            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.

            • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.worldEnglish
              3·
              2 months ago

              as far as weird cult scifi movies go, we loved At The Earth’s Core starring Troy Doug McClure and Peter Cushing. MST3K does it, but they take out the two best scenes. the one where they get attacked by a fire-breathing big mac box and the one where Peter Cushing yells “you can’t mesmerize me, I’m British”.

              • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
                3·
                2 months ago

                She’s more into weird stuff like Forbidden Zone, Killer Klowns from Outer Space, Repo Man, etc.

                She watched Birdemic unriffed and thought it was hilarious. She’s an odd kid.

        • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
          7·
          2 months ago

          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.”

  • hactar42@lemmy.world
    28·
    2 months ago

    I went on the first date with a girl and we got on the topic of the day’s news. I mentioned that I read a story about a guy attacking someone with a “Klingon sword.” She stopped me and said, “You mean a bat’leth?” We’ve been married for 16 years now.