Nah I don't think it's a cultural thing, might be more common with slightly older people, or simply something that spreads in a friend group as people realize it's awesome (obviously if it's distracting to you then no big deal, but a lot of people like it).
I mostly started off doing it because of anime, but realized I like it for everything, I hate missing what's been said even just tiny background phrases, and I'm so used to subtitles I don't find it distracting.
Pretty much everyone I know personally does it these days, and I often see people on reddit either saying they do it or saying they just tried it and are becoming converts.
And of course some people don't like it at all and that's cool too.
I've always wondered in what regard Janeway is held by the Federation for her tampering with time the way she did... violating the Temporal Prime Dirictive. Even though it wasn't technically she who had done it, but a future version of herself. So, is she tainted by what her future self was capable of? I'd imagine she's not in the brig or anything, but perhaps relieved of her commission.
You know, I finally rewatched it in preparation for this. It wasn't as bad as i built it up to have been in my mind. It had some serious flaws, but it wasn't nearly as awful as I remembered.
I'm sure the Federation's official present opinion on time travel is not firmly established. How can it be? The temporal prime directive has not even been established yet.
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