Risa: Your Home Away from Spacedock
Welcome to Risa
All the pleasure of shore leave, none of the holodeck glitches.
Rule 1 — Be Civil, Not Klingon
This is a vacation planet, not the neutral zone.
- No harassment, brigading, or trolling
- No bigotry
- Keep the banter playful, not hostile
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Some things aren’t welcome aboard.
- No spam or scams
- No porn or sexually explicit content
- No illegal content
- NSFW memes must be properly tagged
Rule 3 — Keep It Trek
Posts should be Star Trek memes or Trek-adjacent humor.
- Crossovers are fine
- Low-effort “unrelated” memes may be spaced out the nearest airlock
Rule 4 — Gatekeeping Belongs in a Black Hole
You’re welcome to have your own opinions on what counts as “real” Star Trek but forcing your view on others or pretending it’s the only valid one? That’s not the Starfleet way.
Everyone’s Trek is valid, from TOS purists to Lower Decks shitposters, and you don't get to dictate what is real or not for everyone.
If you see a post that violates the rules, or that doesn't inspire Jamaharon, report it so the mods can handle it.
Otherwise grab a horga’hn, order a Risan Mai Tai, and enjoy your shore leave.
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Now, it would be very easy. But, at the time, not enough was known about the lighting in the circumstances, etc., to make a convincing fake with the equipment available.
Well, perhaps it would fool people back then, but it wouldn’t fool anyone in the last few decades.
I never really considered the question of whether or not it was real, just pre-recorded instead of live. I would’ve presume that would’ve been the case anyway, just in case something horrific happened. They probably didn’t want 100 million people watching that.
The Soviets were obviously tracking it and they didn't call it fake.
That’s another big deal that people never seem to mention: the Soviets would’ve had an absolute fucking field day, calling us out for faking such a huge thing. It’s not like nobody was watching.
Well, everyone watched Challenger fall back to earth live so I imagine the only delay was the 2 second transmission distance from the moon.
I was living in Orlando at the time. I saw that with my naked eye. It was six years old, and it fucked me up.