The main reason not to emulate Star Trek's socialist utopia in storytelling is that utopianism removes conflict
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Replying to @arthur_affect
(That said, no one working on Star Trek ever seemed to nail down exactly how the socialist utopia worked anyway, so whatever)
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Replying to @arthur_affect
I always figured it was based on warp-age civs being able to use ridiculously large (basically unlimited) amounts of energy.
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Replying to @jamesggilmore
well ok but it's telling that the Federation is the only major civilization that's a socialist utopia
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Replying to @arthur_affect @jamesggilmore
and everyone else seems to still have good old fashioned reasons to fight wars ("territory" and "resources")
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Yeah, that's the part they never quite explained. I got how the Federation worked a lot better than the other civilizations.
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Replying to @jamesggilmore @arthur_affect
Like, why do you need to fight over resources (aside from maybe dilithium) when you can just replicate whatever you want?
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Replying to @jamesggilmore @arthur_affect
For the Klingons, it seemed to be just because they really liked killing people... but never got the Romulans or Cardassians.
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Replying to @jamesggilmore
for the Cardassians, especially, they specifically cite becoming an expansionist empire as what saved them from poverty
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Replying to @arthur_affect @jamesggilmore
*shrug* it comes down to the replicator turning all other resources into a matter of energy, but energy itself not being free
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major plot point in Voyager, where they're lost in the wilderness so they develop a black market in "replicator credits"
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