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Jaccident@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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!”

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jimhensonslostpuppet@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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- AdlachGyfiawn@lemmygrad.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Gene Roddenberry was a Maoist. Pretty sure this was a studio thing, not a Gene thing.
  
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  - jimhensonslostpuppet@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    He was a Maoist?
    
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    AdlachGyfiawn@lemmygrad.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    According to his wife Majel, yes.
    
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- Jaccident@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  British. Specifically Scottish.
  
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  - jimhensonslostpuppet@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Ah yeah socialism I guess is a less dirty word in those parts.
    
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