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I don't think it was supposed to be believable. It's a utopian society, reflecting the time in which it was conceived. The idea that society would be become mor

I don't think it was supposed to be believable. It's a utopian society, reflecting the time in which it was conceived. The idea that society would be become more liberal, more socialistic, more tolerant by having greater access to information and not wanting for material goods is the more interesting one. We will be able to see if that's true over the next hundred years. The Warp Drive is just a plot device, so that the humans can interact species from other, distant worlds.

throwanem 10y ago
> I don't think it was supposed to be believable. Roddenberry surely intended it to be. It was the show he'd wanted to make all along, or a great deal closer to it than the original, in any case; since his death and especially since the show wrapped, many early screenwriters have described, in various fora, the extent to which he'd try to enforce the logical consequences of his political philosophy, such as the disappearance of workplace interpersonal conflict, a libertine attitude toward sexual activity, and such enduring peace both internal and external as to render unnecessary the maintenance of a military organization. After Roddenberry's ill health made it impossible for him to exert creative control, and especially after his death in 1991, TNG-era Trek evolved toward a more plausible portayal of its characters and societies.
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