There’s no wealth but some certainly are more equal.
God would forgive you. If it existed.
Not really, but take a college course at a liberal college and that is what they spew.
Communism had a history before these two kooks came along. Plato tried it with his Republic and the Perfect Society. Didn't work out so well in 380 BC either.
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Star Treck was pathetic. I remember trying to explain to a Trecky why why the Enterprise was a bad design. I gave up trying to convince him that inertia still existed without gravity.
who gives a crap?
Many scifi writers are/were of the socialistic, utopianistic, kumbayaic persuasion, as those themes ran through their works.
Lighten up Francis! I was a Trekkie in 1970 and I still am. I laugh at the economy of the United Federation of Planets because the near limitless energy of the antimatter reactor, combined with the matter replicator actually make communism work.
In the Star Trek universe, you really can make Marx’s dream come true and that’s actually a good thing. It illustrates the folly of trying to make it come true in a world where energy comes largely from buring fossil fuels and every manufactured product must start out as a specific set of raw materials processed by labor on expensive, high maintenance machinery and then shipped to the consumer by mechanical transportation.
When a Leftist starts telling me about the “freedom” of communism because people don’t have the profit motive anymore, I usually talk about Star Trek as the reason why it doesn’t work and what kind of technological advances it will require to actually make their dream work.
I’m glad Rodenberry was such a progressive because he proved that communism only works when you can ignore Newton’s Laws of Physics.
I don’t think his problem is Gene so much as people, including himself, that grossly miscomprehended Trek. It’s not communism in Trek. The Federation has very little commerce but they also have replicators, so they don’t have much need for commerce. Meanwhile outside of the Federation commerce is apparently very big, there’s two full races that are commerce masters. Now as for the folks that studiously ignore the implications of replicators and Orions and Ferengi well that happens, but don’t blame the source, some people are just confused no matter what they watch.
The Star Trek TV shows are full of contradictions themselves. In one you hear there is no more currency, that “we work to better ourselves”. In the next one, you hear about gold-pressed latinum. All the science is fake, anyway. Roddenberry had a staff of people who actually knew some real science, but rarely listened to them.
Star Trek existed in a post-scarcity society. I don’t think you could really compare it to our current situation.
Firefly was better.
Try Firefly.
The anti-Star Trek.
Star Trek was pure liberal fantasy.
They always spouting off about “The Prime Directive”
(non intervention into other planets affairs for you non Trekkies)
Then,in nearly every other episode, they violate it.
Otherwise they’d have no show and be aimlessly drifting in space!
I did mention it was liberal fantasy, didn’t I?
While I agree with you it has never stopped me enjoying it!
It always struck me that it was “after-the-fact” that Roddenberry started embracing a kind of mushy philosophical we-are-the-world liberalism, sort of catering to the youthful fans who kept applying pretentious liberal contexts to “Star Trek” (which in his mind was conceived as “Wagon Train” in space... hardly something more).
Anyway, Roddenberry’s rarely-seen earlier series, “The Lieutenant,” about the military in peacetime, is coming out on dvd this very month. I suppose the episodes can now be scanned for attitudes and ideologies. But like Roddenberry’s “Have Gun Will Travel” scripts, I doubt much will be found in those terms.
Hates his guts? Really? Not, oh, a strong dislike? Maybe, not a big fan? I mean, it sounds a little silly to hate someone’s guts because they created a tv show, that apparently, the author only has a passing familiarity with.
Now hating the guts of George Lucas for the “Phantom Menace”, that’s not silly at all.