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Poll: What is your affiliation
  • Empire
    18.1%
  • First Foundation
    27.5%
  • Second Foundation
    22.7%
  • Gaia
    31.7%
397 votesFinal results
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You don’t think the Federation is good? Or you don’t think it’s an empire? I think it’s an example of an empire that is depicted as good (because it’s the US empire depicted from its own POV).
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Agreed in terms of internal Federation “luxury automated space communism”. But the peaceful voluntary democratic (but Earth-dominated) inter-planetary alliance model is definitely based on mid-century America’s view of the first world. TOS was explicitly a Cold War metaphor