29 Days of Star Trek Meme: Day 16

16 - Are you involved with Star Trek fandom?

At the moment, not so much, no. It’s been great that the ’09 movie sparked a real growth in the fandom, and it has been fun seeing new people getting into Trek for the first time – but the reboot-verse doesn’t hold that much interest for me, and there’s not much of an active fandom for the older series… and what is there is divided between various series.

I did used to play a lot of online Trek-based roleplays, but that was a while back, and I haven’t done anything like that in a while.

Mechanical Music

In 1930 the American Federation of Musicians formed a new organization called the Music Defense League and launched a scathing ad campaign to fight the advance of this terrible menace known as recorded sound...The evil face of that campaign was the dastardly, maniacal robot.
- The Smithsonian

Great collection of classic advertisments as part of this campaign, which was, of course, completly succesful in destroying the scourge of souless pre-recorded music once and for all!

One thing I find interesting is that this is only ten years after R.U.R., but the term 'robot' for a mechanical humanoid had already clearly entered the English language and popular culture. Metropolis was 1927; what other iconic representations of robots had there been by 1930?