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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Villano" data-source="post: 923363" data-attributes="member: 505">I don't think anyone's posted this, yet, but here's an interesting article examining the Federation as a communist state.  He makes a pretty good case, too.<a href="http://www.stardestroyer.net/Empire/Essays/Trek-Marxism.html" target="_blank">http://www.stardestroyer.net/Empire/Essays/Trek-Marxism.html</a>When you really think about Trek, it is a creepy place.  The military controls everything.  There's no money.  No popular entertainment.  And the Kasidy Yates situation on DS9.  Refresh my memory, but didn't it go something like this:Kasidy is a smuggler for the Maquis.She and Sisko start a romance.Sisko turns her in to Starfleet.She serves time in prison (Or whatever they call it in the Federation.  There's no crime there, after all <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes    :rolleyes:"  data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /> ).Kasidy returns, having seen the "error of her ways", and falls right back into Sisko's arms.If that's what happened, does it strike anyone else as odd?  Maybe she spent some time in a Starfleet "re-education camp"?Obviously, since this is a fictional world, the inconsistencies are a result of a multitude of writers (not to mention producers and others).  The original Next Gen team tried to present a utopian society.  It ended up becoming a Hollywood vision of communism (i.e., the way people who live in mansions envision it).However, at some point, reality set it.  Someone realized that a world without crime, war, greed, etc., was boring.  And they tried to backtrack.Unfortunately, that resulted in the world you see now.  A place where the militry tries civilians (because no writers thought to include a civilian government).  Where everyone speaks self-righteously about the lack of greed and crime while such things are occurring right before our eyes.Then you end up in a spooky, double-speaking communist authority.And the irony is that Trek has been accussed of being politically correct.  Do you know where that phrase originated?  Chairman Mao created it as his description of rewriting history; shaping reality so that it meshed with his dogma.  Sounds like the Federation, doesn't it?</blockquote>

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