Comment on Was it a good thing that SNW explicitly said the Federation is socialist?
Jaccident@startrek.website 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago
Gene Roddenberry was a Maoist. Pretty sure this was a studio thing, not a Gene thing.
jimhensonslostpuppet@startrek.website 2 years ago
He was a Maoist?
AdlachGyfiawn@lemmygrad.ml 2 years ago
According to his wife Majel, yes.
Jaccident@startrek.website 2 years ago
British. Specifically Scottish.
jimhensonslostpuppet@startrek.website 2 years ago
Ah yeah socialism I guess is a less dirty word in those parts.