I mean, the Federation was only founded after a world war decimated the human population. And I also think, looking at our world, that we are more likely to be the mirror dimension anyway.
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we are more likely to be the mirror dimension anyway.
We should all do routine checks to make sure we don't have goatees, excessive eyeliner, or suddenly start wearing sexy clothing.
.....i have a goatee oh god
That means there's a non-evil version of you out there somewhere!
...Imma fuck his mom.
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Just to be clear star trek also had a nuclear war
And the Whales go extinct. The Star Trek timeline isn't as bright and cheery as most people believe. The franchise has always been collapse-aware, its just not front and center. Gene Roddenberry just envisioned that post capitalist collapse (And with the discovery of intelligent alien life) that humanity would be able to rebuild better from the ashes.
We only know that humpback whales go extinct. The rest of the whales could be doing fine in the 23rd century.
Also I believe Star Trek is speculative fiction.
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I think the whole lack of sustainable fusion thing may be a slightly larger factor than capitalism.
I recommend the book Trekonomics if you want to challenge this notion. Basically, technologies like sustainable fusion, replicators, etc, are the result of a post-scarcity leave-no-one-behind philosophy, rather than its prerequisites.
I'll check it out, thanks 🖖
So close it sounds like it'll be happening in our lifetime.
I think it's sounded like that for the past 40 years, but I am hopeful.
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Maybe when we live in a post singularity society where everything we want can be printed for free.
If by post scarcity you mean Western workers produce seven times more value in goods than they consume over their lifetime, guess what?
Don't worry though, we still have forty more years of nuclear genocide to meet the deadline.
Where are all these goods going?
And we produce far less than Asia. So they must be producing like 70 times what they consume.
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That’s why we rely on Asian slaves and indentured Mexican servitudes to keep us on the top.
That's for the love of the game, not a necessity.
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We already have enough for everyone, if we just toned it down a bit.
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I also noticed that religion was absent from most of the star trek stories, and usually, if at all, was associated with an underdeveloped culture, and they would most likely be warlike and a threat.
Did you not watch Deep Space 9?
Yep, they pretty clearly stated that humanity had moved beyond religion, money, enslaving animals for meat (Riker's words), etc.
Whenever they wanted to show this stuff, they had to run into another civilization.
enslaving animals for meat (Riker’s words)
Yet in season one of PIcard he hunts meat he could have easily replicated.
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Imagine if the Enterprise was constructed by the lowest bidding government contractor.
Also: Why aren't we at least the Farenghi?
When reporters asked (Alan) Shepard what he thought about as he sat atop the Redstone rocket, waiting for liftoff, he had replied, ‘The fact that every part of this ship was built by the lowest bidder.’
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No alien species will sell us warp.
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I like to think, that Star Trek and Fallout play in the same universe/timeline
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