>>I think that Star Trek is communistic and Star Wars is free market capitalism.<<
Based on the article, Star Trek is set in Compton.
And there is NO universe that will let a child be at the helm of a Star Ship with nearly 1,000 people aboard.
Roddenberry always said — place it in today’s world. Picture a 13-YO brat helming an Air Craft Carrier (or a Destroyer or an LTR).
“And there is NO universe that will let a child be at the helm of a Star Ship with nearly 1,000 people aboard.”
Shop that idea around the US Navy. The Submarine community will be especially amused.
You’d need to be 17
I have seen nonqualified teens at the planes on a submarine - dependants cruise.
Now, assuredly, there was a planesman standing by to advise and/or retake physical control, as necessary.
They’ve tried to harken back to tradition in Next Generation to the era of the first woodships like the first Enterprise. On such ships, there were often young boy apprentices(or lads impressed into service from orphanages or pulled in off the streets) as old as 12 who after a time would helm a ship at the Captains discretion or would spell the older mates from time to time who may have needed a potty break. So I don’t fault the show and writers for attempting to echo those old traditions. (The movie Generations after the sequence where Kirk is sucked into the “energy ribbon”, segues into a scene on the enterprise D’s holodeck depicting being at sea on the old Enterprise, celebrating Warf’s promotion with a “dunking”)
The Next Generation episodes often had echo’s of the past wood sailing ship days where the captian often had an apprentice or favorite “boy” mate to run errands and messages often because the captain saw potential in the boy or perhaps just wished he had a son.(I’m not even going there with stories of more lurid goings on...though I know such stories were also true). A star ship captain with a Brit accent with authentic use of old naval terms with the use of polite formal sir names(”MISTER CRUSHER,set course for Capella! “Course laid in SIR”” “Engage engines at maximum warp””Aye Aye SIR!”) completes the connection between past and future.
I do generally agree that such young folk would not be allowed to do such things with today’s modern ships, planes, and subs. Now 17 or older teens trained by the US Navy...well that’s different.