Star Trek is definitely Communist (or fascist). Star Wars universe seems mostly pathetic. Most of the planets seem to live like The Flintstones only with rocket ships and cool weapons.
Star Wars seems more Islamic, bow down to the empire.
Peter Thiel is not only and investing genius but he’s also very brave.
in Silicon Valley there is a huge, huge and totally uncompromising pressure to be liberal, and if you’re conservative, shut the hell up..!
Peter Thiel is really Brave.
Original Star trek was always set as the tension between collectivism vs the one. It was Kirk and other characters that broke the collectives rules in order to save the universe. Enterprise itself was always rouge. It highlights the failure of communism.
Yep. I agree with him. However, Star Trek, TOS had strong conservative messages in it.
The news media only looks as personal life scandals, and Obama did not seem to have that problem - except spending extravagantly on his own family's vacations, etc.
Political scandals were handled very adroitly by the MSM who covered up everything that was going on that was scandalous - the politicalization of government buros, for example. The infiltration of the WH by the Muslim Brotherhood. When Michele Bachman made it known publicly, she was ridiculed. Enough already of this Obama worship.
“Star Wars” reminds me of “Casablanca” in the sense that there is this underground market filled with smugglers, thieves, bounty hunters, freedom fighters, etc., while being “controlled” by an empire.
I don’t know about communist/capitalist — and maybe Star Trek is remiss in not addressing any economic subjects in its scenarios of the future — but one thing I firmly believe:
Star Trek is science fiction, Star Wars is not.
Maybe the original episodes of Star Wars were Capitalist, but not the Prequels. I winced in “Attack of the Clones” when that factory started churning out a huge Clone army based on a very vague promise from Jedi Qui-Gon Jinn.
both wrong - they are only movies
The Federation is socialist. The rest of the Star Trek universe is kind of capitalist. But really there’s no much cause for an economic system of any type once you have replicators.
Is Donald Trump real life Kirk?
Meh, I don’t know how useful it is to draw a simplistic dichotomy like this.
One of the reasons why Star Trek is usually depicted without money, etc. is because it’s intended to show a post-scarcity economy. After all, who needs to buy food or clothes when you can tell a computer to synthesise it out of thin air for you? There IS the somewhat unrealistic “good of their hearts” element involved, of course (e.g. why would someone work as a waitress is she’s not actually being paid? What’s the incentive?)
Notably though, in some of the more “frontier” settings (i.e. DS9), they have “gold-pressed latinum” which serves as hard currency, so there is still a money economy in place at least in part of the galaxy.
Will no one cite the Rules of Acquisition (TNG)?
I’ve always been creeped out by “The Federation.”
It’s an all-powerful military ruling organization that runs everything.
And while I am not one to cry “antisemitic,” it was pretty obvious the Ferengi were modeled after Shylock/Merchant of Venice.
All Star Treks after 1990 (TNG, DS9, Voyager) were decidedly communist.
I agree with an article I read somewhere about how Star Trek is fascist.
No genetic engineering outside Starfleet’s accepted guidelines.
Don’t meet their guidelines like having a world with genetically engineered people, they isolate you. (Reference several books.)
Admirals in Star Fleet have a massive amount of power, several separate plot lines have one Admiral being enough to potentially take over the Federation.
Star Fleet controls much of interstellar travel and communication.
Star Fleet has its own courts for Bashir’s parents, instead of a civil court.
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