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talkpoliticsFirst and foremost, I wish everybody a happy and prosperous year 2012, full of health, good luck and lots of smiles for you and your dear ones! ^__^[Poll #1807958]
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Date: 2/1/12 19:50 (UTC)I've got a story right over the top of my head. The Mount Athos republic in Greece, an actual existing utopia. Crazy place!
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Date: 2/1/12 19:52 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2/1/12 19:58 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2/1/12 20:01 (UTC)would be a political system we should like.
The Federation seems to be a portrayed as a good combination of Capitalism and Socialism
to where research and innovation are encouraged and rewarded, yet the benefits are
shared by all members of society.
Other alien cultures in that Universe seem to be extremes of individual systems
Klingons are militaristic and expansionist, Ferengi are Extreme Capitalists to the exclusion of benefits to society, The Borg would be close to Theocratic except "The Hive" would be the representation of the 'Greater Good' and 'Higher Power' being served (also quite LITERALLY converting new members) and the show shows the various problems with those extreme positions.
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Date: 2/1/12 20:09 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2/1/12 20:25 (UTC)but about to walk out the door right now 8-)
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Date: 2/1/12 22:09 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2/1/12 23:09 (UTC)about "Pre-Roddenberry" or Post- ....
The nature of some of those societies changes after his death: (Quark of the Ferengi, Hugh of the Borg, Worf, Oto the Shapeshifter who rejects the Dominion, etc....)
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Date: 2/1/12 23:22 (UTC)Explosions in space...
Phaser energy that can be "dodged" even at close range...
Phaser energy where you can visually see the shot coming...
Warp-speed "turns" in space with a crew experiencing "gravity"
without the crew becoming paste on the walls...
The energy of breaking apart matter and re-assembling it, which should
involve splitting atoms, and yet NOT releasing atomic blasts nor requiring
as much energy...
The storing of more information (the electron and atomic state of every particle in an object) than every library book on earth EVERY single time you transport even a small object... AND having the encoding and decoding of that done in real-time...
Ships being damaged in space *without* explosive decompression taking the whole thing out...
and the age-old question: If the soul is housed by the body, are you considered dead while in transporter beam transit?. And if your soul can be beamed -- then is "Ghostbusters" are reality in Star Trek?
and the list goes on 8-)
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Date: 3/1/12 20:31 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 3/1/12 20:46 (UTC)than the politics so was able to rattle it off more quickly
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Date: 2/1/12 20:03 (UTC)sure the conversations will go into racism and prejudice anyway.
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Date: 2/1/12 20:29 (UTC)That's because nobody had the nerve to take on the US ;o)
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Date: 2/1/12 20:44 (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 3/1/12 03:37 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2/1/12 22:17 (UTC)Oh my, that sounds scary!
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Date: 2/1/12 22:39 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 4/1/12 02:40 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 4/1/12 20:28 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 18/1/12 23:48 (UTC)There's a LOT to work with here. >:D
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Date: 18/1/12 23:53 (UTC)Dystopia is included in the current topic btw.