This is a really good post. I find it really tiring when Trek fans act as if its weird that people today wouldn't relate to a utopian future where the government and military are objectively benevolent https://abigailnussbaum.tumblr.com/post/190456082585/opinions-about-tiaras-ncfan-1-welp-the-rise/amp#click=https://t.co/Gnopscx4TX …
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"let us have Star Trek" i mean ok, but it'll last one season, because there really is zip to relate to in the utopian premise
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My country has been a propagandistic warmonger since *at least 2/3rds of my life ago* and really longer. The Federation is just not believable (and even its writers who are going for that fail frequently at the utopia and instead tell us it's okay for our heroes to do atrocities)
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Like, "our society is a post scarcity utopia* THE HEROES: enable conversion therapy, forcibly split apart beings that see this as death, deny medical aid to uncontacted worlds
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Star Wars has conventionally sold better than Trek and Trek tends to turn into Wars because the fact is having human antagonists and fallible protagonists is better storytelling
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The great thing about Star Wars, the original, is how vividly real Luke's crappy life on the crappy farm feels before the plot kicks off Everything's futuristic and strange - the droids, red moisture farm, the landspeeder - but it's still terribly familiar
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And yeah it's a big challenge for Star Trek that you can't tell ordinary stories about ordinary people because poverty doesn't exist anymore etc Everyone, at least in theory, has the life of a privileged urban educated elite
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