• Nakedmole@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Thank you for posting. I see that you honestly tried to answer my actually pretty rhetoric question. That is nice of you and I respect your kind behaviour. However - I still don´t see how this person is more relevant for star trek than any of us is. We all grew up watching it and we all love star trek. There seems to be nothing about that musicians connection to the show that would justify a feature like this afaik.

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        1 year ago

        If there was some kind of connection between the person and the franchise before, that would mean it´s not just an arbitrary marketing campaign to milk the cash cow that star trek is.

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          1 year ago

          They would have had to have had a previous arbitrary marketing campaign in order for this one to be authentic? I’m struggling to understand the boundaries of acceptability here.

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            1 year ago

            It´s fine. We don´t need to understand each other. You are nice, so I enjoyed talking to you anyway.

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          1 year ago

          Here’s a completely different take.

          What if the purpose is to attract new audiences to the franchise who have different tastes than the existing core?

          To do that, having an established rapper embrace the franchise and play an original character in Fortnite, makes sense from an outreach point of view.

          The franchise doesn’t exist just to serve older folks like me who’ve watched everything since 1966, nor will it survive if it focuses on appealing to the fans who were drawn in by the 90s Berman era shows.

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      1 year ago

      I love his music, and I love star trek. That’s all the connection I need to be happy about this.

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        1 year ago

        Well if you know this musician and love his music it´s obvious why you are happy about the collaboration with ST and I am happy for you. When trying to understand my reaction please consider that unlike you, there are also Star Trek fans who are not interested in “Kid Cudi” at all.