re: #438 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.

So I returned from the Star Trek convention yesterday. I’ve already relayed all the news that came out of it, but I noted a difference in the atmosphere, too.

One thing was that there was less energy — my hypothesis is that we’re all exhausted by our current government. (You won’t find many DT supporters among Star Trek fans — a group with “Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations” as a motto isn’t likely to approve of him, also we may have a higher respect for facts than the general population.)

The other is that we always have the rule of keeping politics out of the convention, but this time they wouldn’t stay out. Quite a few of the actors and other guests wore “resistance” t-shirts (my favorite said “Immigrants Are U.S.”), and talk about what could be done kept creeping in.

The watchword of the convention was “vote.”

That’s a pretty big deal, considering they all should have been extremely excited about Trek getting back on track with a Picard series.