[RedMonqey]

It doesn’t make them dependent, it makes them unnecessary...So you send them to another planet.

That sounds more Ann Randsque than Gene Roddenberry....

[discostu]

Trek studiously avoided the bad implications of replicators and holodecks. But it’s there if you’re willing to read between the lines. They have replicators that provide for all basic needs, and a HUGE military finding new planets for their civilians to colonize. Sure they sell it as everybody being “free to grow to their potential” but the reality is there.