What the Internet thought about Sisko in 1994
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Due to lousy politics of a TV station in my country which cancelled DS9 after one season and due to the fact that I did find a way to watch Voyager in 1998, I never read the threads on the forums back then because I didn't want to spoil the fun with watching the episodes. I started to read about Voyager and comment the show when I started watching it. Therefore I didn't know anything about the debate about Sisko back then.
The only thing I remember from those days was the total hatred against Wesley Crusher, something that I did find almost disgusting. I wasn't a fan of Wesley back then. I found him slightly annoying but I didn't hate or dislike the character.
But when I saw all those hate posts against Wesley, I actually started to like him!
Sometimes hate campaigns have an opposite effect on me.
The only thing I remember from those days was the total hatred against Wesley Crusher, something that I did find almost disgusting. I wasn't a fan of Wesley back then. I found him slightly annoying but I didn't hate or dislike the character.
But when I saw all those hate posts against Wesley, I actually started to like him!
Sometimes hate campaigns have an opposite effect on me.
There are certain segments of the white male population that see a strong white male as a default and any alternative to that as a politically motivated assault on their God given right to have all the privileges and have everything of importance be about them.
You had PETs?? Luxury! When I started out it was on paper copy TTY 33's that we got cast off from companies that wore them out and MOVED ON to Commodore PETs! The teletypes didn't even have the lowercase option! The whole room together sounded like a diesel locomotive hauling a train of coal cars up a hill at 50 mph. PETs, wow!
Okay, well I don't even know what the hell you guys are talking about!
I had to read stuff that was printed on paper.
The pictures were still and didn't move at all.
You could tear a Page out of a magazine and tape it to your actual wall inside your room!
And we wrote on paper too with pens that dispersed actual ink from the end!
And I can write in cursive script!
So there.
That is a teletype! That is how we communicated with the computer in the old days. Type on the keyboard, what we type goes on the paper, the computer cogitates for a while and responds also by typing on the paper. That thing to the left of the keyboard should be a paper tape reader-punch, for mass storage. Of course WE didn't have one, we just WISHED we had paper tape reader-punches!
Let's just say I'm old enough to remember the events Assignment: Earth is based on.
That is a teletype! That is how we communicated with the computer in the old days. Type on the keyboard, what we type goes on the paper, the computer cogitates for a while and responds also by typing on the paper. That thing to the left of the keyboard should be a paper tape reader-punch, for mass storage. Of course WE didn't have one, we just WISHED we had paper tape reader-punches!
Let's just say I'm old enough to remember the events Assignment: Earth is based on.
So Obi-wan do we have to be respectful of your age and all now?
ST fans are not immune to being racists and misogynists.
We were evicted from our Commodore PET. We had to go and live with a Sinclair ZX-81.
You were lucky to have a Sinclair ZX-81! There were a 160 of us trying to post to a BBS on a small Babbage Difference Engine in the middle of the road.
Luxury.
We had to do play all our games an an antikythera device with no supper, and when we got home, Ceaser would kill us.
Well we had it tough.
We used to have to reboot the Babbage Engine at twelve o'clock at night, and lick the server room fans clean with our tongues. We had half a handful of freezing cold coffee beans, worked twenty-four hours a day at the call-center, and when we got home, our SYSOP would permaban us to death with painfully worded flames.
And you try and tell the young people of today that...and they won't believe you! 
Or any kind of fans, especially since everyone is a fan of something. You don't hear much about those racist candy loving fans though you just assume the number of people who like candy in the world that more than a few of them are racists. Only difference is tv and movies deal with representation and idea's so they become things that are easier to trigger people. One thing I have noticed is not many people alive like to every have their views challenged in anyway but that to me goes beyond mere fandom of a tv show or movie. Nerd fandom gets a little bit of a unfair treatment as if racism only exists in fandom and hardly anywhere else. I think society has finally come to terms that everything is poltical and everything might be tainted by racism were in the past people, even good people were more in denial.
Jason
See, I find this interesting. I am a new ST fan and don't think fandom describes me. I like the shows, but I am not immersed in them nor do I participate in anything Star Trek other than this forum.
I have always thought of Star Trek fandom as being more evolved and progressive than the general public. I don't think I am alone in this. It has been eye opening to see that that is not necessarily true.