What is Star Trek's Obsession With San Francisco?

Picard's family had a wine vineyard in SanFranceisco coincidence?

Was that where Roddenberry lived?

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>>79513336
Nope, he was born in El Paso Texas, worked in Hollywood, lived in Bel-Air and died in Santa Monica.

>>79513441
Huh, maybe he lost his virginity there or something.

An inclusive, high tech organization like the federation needs an inclusive, high tech home
Also, in ST history, SF was one of the few cities to survive WW3 intact.

>>79513618
But SF has a naval base there, I know because they showed the aircraft carrier Enterprise docked there in Star Trek IV, it should have been one of the first targets.

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>>79513618
Minsk also survived, that where Worf grew up. Was it just too cold for those green blooded Vulcans to agree setting up the Federation there?

>>79513662
The nuclear wessels are in Alameda.

They didn't think san francisco would unceremoniously die.

>>79511682
Homosex, and/or it's just really photogenic.

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>>79513886
Homosex is not allowed in my franchise.

degenerate capital
starfleet embodies all of its values.

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>>79513719
oh well fair enough, now it's a Star Trek General thread! Top Ten on screen Federation Starship designs are

1. Ambassador
2. Galaxy
3. Constitution refit
4. NX
5. Centaur
6. Miranda
7. Excelsior
8. Constellation
9. Sovereign
10. Olympic

>>79511682
I thought the Federation capital was in Paris.

>>79514069
The President is in Paris, the Council is in San Fran.

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>>79514069
Nope San Fran, little known fact is that the first replicators could only replicate Rice-a-Roni

>>79511682
>The LA Times recently ran a story about the Child Exploitation Section of the Toronto Sex Crimes Unit, which contained a mind-boggling statistic: of the more than 100 offenders the unit has arrested over the last four years, “all but one” has been “a hard-core Trekkie.” Blogger Ernest Miller thought this claim was improbable. “I could go to a science fiction convention,” he explained “and be less likely to find that 99+ percent of the attendees were hard-core Trekkies.” While there may be quibbling about the exact numbers, the Toronto detectives claim that the connection is undeniable.

>In fact, Star Trek paraphernalia has so routinely been found at the homes of the pedophiles they’ve arrested that it has become a gruesome joke in the squad room. (On the wall, there is a Star Trek poster with the detectives’ faces replacing those of the crew members). This does not mean that watching Star Trek makes you a pedophile. It does mean that if you’re a pedophile, odds are you’ve watched a lot of Star Trek.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ellen-ladowsky/pedophilia-and-star-trek_b_5857.html

What did they mean by this?
And should Star Trek fans on /tv/ be preemptively arrested?

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>>79514127
>huffington post
a panel of normie women can stfu about star trek

>>79514127
are these people who were balls deep in some prime cunny or just guys they caught with cp?

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>>79514127
It's no surprise that pedophiles like Star Trek, considering that Voyager is pro-pedophile propaganda.

>>79513929
Fuck you, Rick McCallum

>>79511682
Have you ever met anyone from LA? Especially anyone from mid/late 20th century LA? SF is where LA keeps it culture, so whenever New Yorkers say "California has no culture" they can say "nuh uh".

And that's why Roddenberry put the future in San Francisco.

Of course SF does not reciprocate LA's weird Californian Pride thing, and if someone from San Francisco were to say "Southern California has no culture" they'd be in trouble. But that isn't a problem, because, unlike New Yorkers, no San Franciscan has ever gone to Los Angeles for any reason, so nobody in LA realizes that SF treats them with the same contempt as NY.

>>79511682
>especially when they travel back in time.
They visit LA in the VOY time travel episode though.

San Fancisco is where the UN was originally formed, right? Like where they signed the UN Charter (I know the HQ is in New York). Maybe that's the reason, the Federation is basically meant to be an evolution of the UN or an organization like it anyway.

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>>79511682
Because all Star Trek is gay...
Except Enterprise.

>>79511682
You are forgetting the penal state of New Zealand

>>79514061
i'll bite
1.Ambassador
2.Excelsior refit
3.Constitution refit
4.Galaxy X
5.Sovereign
6.Miranda
7.Oberth
8.Intrepid
9.Olympic
7.Wells

>>79514061
The Freedom class is the true patricians vessel.

>>79514127
>huffington post

>>79513886
>it's just really photogenic.

They don't even use any footage San Francisco in the series.

>>79515191
Enjoy your Tiderium aids.

>>79514127
This doesn't surprise at all at that /tv/'s two main interests are Star Trek and cunnyposting.

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>>79511682
Thankyou for continuing my post from last night, faggot.

It is a fact that Sisko is named after San Francisco.

>>79517278
>new zealand
>not australia

They had one thing desu.

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>>79517216
If ENT is the least gay then why is it the series where San Fran appears the most? 14 times according to Memory Alpha, that's more than twice the amount it appears in any other Star Trek series. I guess that makes ENT the faggiest, oh also there's this picture of her Captain.

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>>79517777
checked, but you're wrong. I like women THICC and THICC women the anti cunny

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>>79517693
obvious sarcasm

>>79517573
including the Oberth is much more subtle a troll than the guy above. haha Oberth, nice try Anon.

What's your obsession with San Francisco? It's a TV show about spaceships. Who freaking cares.

>>79518261
it triggers me because it's named after a saint

>>79518148
I would take Oberth or Constellation over Defiant or Akira any day.
Red Jacket Era is truly a patrician choice in aesthetics. Half of the newer ships look like a plastic Japanese piece of shit.

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>>79518420
I would agree with that but the split design is so stupid, if they want to build a smaller ship they should just eliminate the star drive design cue entirely and just have the nacelles come directly our of the saucer (which is the main feature of Federation Starships) like an NX.