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The latest episode of Strange New Worlds has a character (rather loudly) describe the Federation as Socialist (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Munrock@lemmygrad.ml to c/startrek@lemmygrad.ml

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S02E03

Just sharing this info because it feels good to see it acknowledged.

edit: removed a spoiler because apparently the spoiler tags don't hide the text when the post appears in lists

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[–] angrytoadnoises@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hey, that's pretty cool! This post made me catch up on the newest season.

Star Trek has, from where I'm standing, always had a problem presenting the Federation as the socialist utopia that it quite explicitly is. It feels like some of the series wanted to veer away from that implication, or that a lot of the writers didn't know how to handle writing conflict within a post-scarcity super society. I think we all know how inconsistent it is with money, exchange between civilizations, etc.

Which is a shame, because I watch Star Trek exactly for the fully automated gay space communist fantasies.

[–] Munrock@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah, I made this post in the first 5 minutes of the episode. It's a time travel episode.

Previously we've had time travel situations on Trek that make a joke of it (e.g. haha the heroes of our story don't know what money is), but this time the travelling characters eere a bit more on the nose about how dystopian it is to them that they need currency for food and shelter.