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Star Trek.
Honestly people say this but imo, every TOS era movie is good except for 5 and then you have First Contact, which is flawed but still enjoyable. And even the Abrams movies weren't terrible either.
Why?
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I cant buy Star Trek at all, as reconciling the world in its current state with the notion that transitioning to a post scarcity economy would mean some rich assholes dont somehow rig things in their favor to prevent us from having a utopia is impossible.
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One of the things I've always loved about Trek is its relentless optimism, which is something that is sorely lacking in sci-fi and media in general.I dont really have an issue with the premise in principle, it just makes it completely impossible for me to suspend disbelief.
Yeah, maybe it's rather naive bordering on pollyanna-ish, but there's something to be said for the notion that humanity constantly strives to be better.
I dont really have an issue with the premise in principle, it just makes it completely impossible for me to suspend disbelief.Tbf, in the lore of Star Trek humanity went through World War III and basically a total societal collapse before we got our shit together and built a utopian society.
Tbf, in the lore of Star Trek humanity went through World War III and basically a total societal collapse before we got our shit together and built a utopian society.That helps a little, but the problem persists. Just seems like whatever leaders were spearheading the rebuilding of civilization would basically be kings again.
Yeah, Trek style Utopia took three necessary factorsIf there was a French Revolution style kill all the rich movement after the collapse, and then the burgeoning society was basically designed from the ground up to beat greed out of people with extreme prejudice, thats about the only way I can think of it may be remotely plausible.
* World War III
* A human launching a warp drive starship
* An alien civilization benevolent enough to assist with the reconstruction of Earth
Take any of those away and it's likely that it doesn't happen.
If there was a French Revolution style kill all the rich movement after the collapse, and then the burgeoning society was basically designed from the ground up to beat greed out of people wit extreme prejudice, thats about the only way I can think of it may be remotely plausible.My head canon is that the Vulcans made it pretty clear they were in charge early on and due to superior strength and weapons beat the rich warlords into submission very quickly.
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My head canon is that the Vulcans made it pretty clear they were in charge early on and due to superior strength and weapons beat the rich warlords into submission very quickly.Yeah, but if Santa Claus machines are ever invented, I feel like the rich will just hoard them and use them to make themselves infinitely rich, as they wont even need consumers to buy their shit anymore. Yeah, it would basically make money worthless in the long run, but were talking about the people who lead corporations to make poor long term decisions all the time in the pursuit of short term stock bumps and shit.
Granted I don't see Trek style communism as achievable for a variety of reasons like Santa Claus machines being seemingly impossible with our current understanding of physics but that's another story.
I honestly don't understand the love for TNG. I mean, it's fine. I watched the original broadcast, and it could be hard to watch then. It's even harder to watch now. At least DS9 had a plot arc (yet another thing copied from B5). I'm not saying I'd kick TNG out of bed, I'm just saying it's really not the sacrosanct thing it's held out to be.