Comment on Was it a good thing that SNW explicitly said the Federation is socialist?
Jaccident@startrek.website 5 months ago
As I am not American I grew up with socialism being a positive connotation in day to day culture, so much so it’s wild to me that this needed to be veiled in Trek’s past. Star Trek should be as explicit as possible with this. “Hey, you want Utopia? This is how you earn it!”
jimhensonslostpuppet@startrek.website 5 months ago
Where are you if I may ask? And I think it may have been a dictate of Gene Roddenberry to not name which economic system won out, which is kind of a copout. But yeah it’s refreshing to see it called what it is finally
AdlachGyfiawn@lemmygrad.ml 5 months ago
Gene Roddenberry was a Maoist. Pretty sure this was a studio thing, not a Gene thing.
jimhensonslostpuppet@startrek.website 5 months ago
He was a Maoist?
AdlachGyfiawn@lemmygrad.ml 5 months ago
According to his wife Majel, yes.
Jaccident@startrek.website 5 months ago
British. Specifically Scottish.
jimhensonslostpuppet@startrek.website 5 months ago
Ah yeah socialism I guess is a less dirty word in those parts.