YMMV / StarDestroyer.net

• Aluminum Christmas Trees: Wong points out in his review of Star Trek: Insurrection that the fanbase's mocking of Riker using a joystick to pilot a ship is ill-placed; an analog-controlled joystick would actually be one of the best ways to control a spacecraft.
• Fandom Rivalry:
  • Had one with SpaceBattles.com for a while, partly due to a much heavier focus on evidence-based debating on SD.net's end. It seems to have mostly died down.
  • There was a much nastier one with the Star Trek vs. Star Wars Technical Assessment. The rivalry slowly ebbed away after that site's creator, Darkstar, moved away from discussing the technical side of the debate towards the canon policies of the two franchises.
• Fan Nickname:
  • The site itself is frequently shortened to SDN, and the usenet group it grew out of is ASVS.
  • "Force sub," presumably short for "force substitution," is a versus thread where you take a canonical conflict from a work (e.g. the Yuuzhan Vong War) and replace one side with somebody else (e.g. swap the Vong with the tyranids).
  • "Testingstan" is the "Testing" forum, which is mostly used for disposable threads consisting of random silliness that are auto-deleted after 24 hours' inactivity.
• Gateway Series: Can serve as this to some of the science fiction series the debates bring up.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Possibly the two most infamous debates on the site were the ones that Wong had with Darkstar and Stewart at SDI, both at least in part over the subject of whether the Death Star destroyed Alderaan with raw energy, or if it used some other method. While Wong's position that it was raw energy was probably the most defensible one at the time, changes to Star Wars canon in the aftermath of Disney's buyout of the franchise mean that Darkstar and Stewart were in fact right all along to insist a different method was used, albeit Right for the Wrong Reasons.^note (Stewart's claim that the Death Star turned Alderaan's core into a giant nuclear bomb was demonstrably wrong since it would actually have taken more energy than just destroying the planet outright, while Darkstar never made any real attempt to explain his theory that the Death Star's superlaser used some kind of chain reaction-based weapon other than pointing out a few visual oddities in Alderaan's destruction, such as the Planar Shockwave that was created)
• Memetic Mutation:
  • RAR! is an internal meme, coined by Mayabird in response to Zor's "Hipotheticle Senareos"[sic]. It basically refers to any thread featuring a highly complicated theoretical scenario. A good example.
  • Ahriman 238's analysis/discussion thread for the Honor Harrington series at one point compared the Graysons to Kerbals. It didn't take long for people to start posting "GLORIOUS KERBAL GRAYSONS" or some variation thereof.
• Moment of Awesome: Wong's ripping into Star Trek: Insurrection being about saving the Ba'ku who somehow matter more than billions of other life forms and noting just how selfish they would have to be to hoard something that could save billions of lives.
• Rooting for the Empire: The Trope Namer, but not entirely true.
  "Complaining about technical aspects is fine, but sympathizing with one faction because of their technology doesn't make any kind of valid argument on the morals. No matter how cool or otherwise the bad guys are, they're still bad."
  Necronlord.
• Unintentional Period Piece: The main site is essentially a time capsule of the Star Wars vs. Star Trek debate in the early 2000s, when the weapons specifications in the Incredible Cross-Sections books had definitively and overwhelmingly decided the debate in favor of the Star Wars side. With Disney disavowing the figures contained in the Incredible Cross-Sections after they bought out the franchise, the debate is now a much more open one, with Star Wars still generally being seen as the stronger side thanks to advantages in the areas of propulsion and ground combat, but it's nowhere near as one-sided as it was previously.

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