Star Trek shows a wonderful post scarcity world where every material thing can be duplicated...but power and rank (the one thing everyone craves) is allocated by The Party. Of course commies love it - it's got commie power politics and capitalist wealth characteristics.https://twitter.com/BoomerNiner/status/1452772603559616512 …
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3/ Offscreen! The plates (ah, I mean starships) fly around for no discernable cause! Clearly it is the will of the proletariat that decides who gets promoted and what happens, and this will is...expressed...somehow...indirectly...https://twitter.com/amendlocke/status/1452786397706866689?t=Re6YeLCeVxO1X7_t-2GFFw&s=19 …
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The vast bulk of ST was later writers trying to shoehorn decent stories into Roddenberry's insipid bullshit. Storytelling by committee. It's a wonder DS9 was as good as it was.
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DS9 is good because it really broke the mold that the shows before and after followed. Not on a ship, but a space station, and that entailed a different dynamic, with different responsibilities.
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Where exactly is the Party in Star Trek? (I've by no means watched all or even much of it, so I may have missed the memo.)
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some billionaires are infinitely more equal than entire countries :) companies lobby legislatures to rule every significant aspect of society. profit dictates whether entire populations get to feed themselves or starve. but go on, quote orwell to own the commies :)
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