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> A Sci-Fi universe where communism actually works What about Star Trek?

• stcredzero 9y ago
  In the case of Star Trek, there were many more items of Fi. Then you have Star Wars which really doesn't give a ####.
  • krapp 9y ago
    >Then you have Star Wars which really doesn't give a ####. Star Trek just pretends to, though. Most of its fictional conceits are barely thought out, including its post-scarcity communist utopia. Does the Force really make any less sense than Q? It's all space fantasy.
    • stcredzero 9y ago
      Does PsychoHistory and "The Mule" make any more sense than The Force? In the end, it is all space opry. Our far flung mind children are likely to be stranger than the mind of Homo sapiens is able to imagine.
      • KSteffensen 9y ago
        Psychohistory makes sense as a sort of statistical sociology. Probabilities of society as a whole moving in this or that general direction.
    • vidarh 9y ago
      Most of classical Star Trek (TOS, TNG, Voyager, and large parts of DS9) consists mostly of self-contained morality plays where the sci-fi just provides a setting. Some of those morality plays are related to the science part - notably a lot of the issues around the morality of treatment of Data and holograms. But most of it could be set in any time period. The Sci-Fi setting just made it easier to juxtapose things without running into "but that's not how it was then/there" objections and allowing more extreme contrasts. Enterprise, parts of DS9, Discovery and the new movies have largely done away with that format. It's a very sharp relief.