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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Micah Sweet" data-source="post: 9565808" data-attributes="member: 6747251">I care about worldbuilding more than anything else, so making the world feel as real as possible within the context of the setting is very important to me. I figure that the idealism of Roddenberry is literally an ideal to aspire to, easier to do the more you live and/or grew up in the post-scarcity core of the Federation (although even there plenty of folks, some of them not even Starfleet admirals, will compromise those ideals in order to "protect" them). Our Federation mains mote or less fall into that idealistic category, which is why stories like that of Picard post-TNG are without a doubt tragic, but to my mind understandable.In short, cynicism is part of the setting, the part that makes it feel like a real place with real people. The philosophical battleground of Star Trek is what makes the setting so compelling to me. This is why I tend to look askance at Treks that feel too action-oriented (like Discovery often did). That stuff is a side dish to me, not an entree.</blockquote>