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You're rewriting star trek (hexbear.net)

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You want to make star trek more of a left utopia than a liberal one. What changes do you make to the federation? What changes do you make to the setting at large?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Because the capitalists on that planet would just steal the replicators and build weapons with them

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

Gotta tito the capitalists first

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

The Federation would also supply the people of the oppressed planets with the immortal science of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism as well as the supplies and weapons to liberate themselves.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Even in the most optimistic scenarios that would still result in countless planetary World Wars lol, in the the words of Captain Jean Luc Picard “The Prime Directive is a most correct philosophy”

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

Banks solves this in The Culture with Special Circumstances, which "gently" removes the impediments a species might have to achieve post-scarcity (and who are considered absolutely scary psychopaths by the civilisation at large.) This bites them in the arse at least once, when they try to dismantle a divinely ordered caste system only to find out the gods actually exist.