[ SECRET POST #6913 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6913 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

The Federation happened after two devastating world wars, one of them nuclear, followed by decades of desperation and near-extinction, then a slow crawl back to civilization, and finally, First Contact.

Personally, I think it's meeting the Vulcans that made Humanity in the Star Trek universe have its come-to-Jesus moment, so to speak. It was a moment that would have changed how they viewed reality so powerfully that it altered their brain chemistry collectively as a species.

Honestly, though, it seems like some of y'all lackin' too much imagination to be watching Star Trek in the first place.

[feotakahari]

The biggest reason I dislike Star Trek is that setting up the Federation as more enlightened implicitly means setting up the uncontacted worlds as less enlightened. I’m a fan of Speaker for the Dead, where the aliens argue that the Prime Directive is a violation of their rights.

SA

[(Anonymous)]

I agree on the Federation's high-handedness, especially where the PD is concerned. But I always felt like the Fed preaching its so-called enlightenment was never meant to be an indictment of other "lesser alien species" it encountered, but an often heavy-handed message to Humanity here and now that it can reach the levels of enlightenment that the Federation's Humanity has if we try.

And no offense to you, feotakahari, but fuck Orson Scott Card and his homophobic, anti-choice bullshit.

Re: SA

[feotakahari]

Some people can be surprisingly open-minded towards aliens while being bigoted towards fellow humans. I've been told Sector General is like that with women.

+1

[(Anonymous)]

It's even as simple as "Star Trek is What If Future Humans Were Not Shit?" Sci-fi is exploring what-ifs, and that's it, that's the premise Roddenbery started from. The fact that the extended lore came up with plausible reasons for why and how humanity ended up there is a cherry on top, but for the longest time we fans took characters just declaring that they did away with poverty and war hundreds of years ago at face value and rolled with it.