Trekonomics: Is Star Trek Really “Anti-Libertarian”?

The Federalist ^ | October 22, 2014 | Robert Tracinski

[C19fan]

Reason‘s Nick Gillespie recently posted a list of the five most anti-libertarian television shows ever, and there’s a serious error. Actually, there are two serious errors. The first, larger error is that Reason put together a list of the five best libertarian TV shows, and they left off “Firefly,” which simply boggles the mind.

The smaller error is that Gillespie names “Star Trek” among the anti-libertarian shows. Even worse is the reason he gives: “The Starship Enterprise’s adventures throughout the galaxy are supposedly guided by the Federation’s ‘prime directive,’ which forbids humans from intervening in the domestic affairs of the planets they visit. And yet…Captain James T. Kirk is mucking around with every civilization from here to the Romulan Neutral Zone like LBJ on Viagra.”

[Political Junkie Too]

Nowhere is it made clear WHO runs the Village.

They said it at the beginning of each episode.

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I am Number 2.
Who is Number 1?
You are Number 6.

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All that was missing is the comma.

-PJ

[Dr. Sivana]

Who says #1 runs the Village?

[Political Junkie Too]

He ignored the biggest staple of the Libertarian cause, reform of drug laws.

Saurian Brandy was banned in the Federation, and yet McCoy always seemed to have a bottle, and Kirk was always willing to drink from it.

-PJ

[Political Junkie Too]

Some things just have to be taken for granted in a society. If Number 2 is the Operations Director who reports to Number 1 in a numbered organization, and if Number 2 is constantly being replaced by his/her superior, doesn’t it stand to reason that Number 1 is the head?

-PJ