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Star_Trek is a safe harbour for Star Trek fans that may have found themselves on the receiving end of the ban hammer for daring to have an opinion that differed from the power mad mods on Reddit’s Star Trek sub and/or Lemmy’s own StarTrek.website.
You’re safe to like or dislike any show, character, writer, showrunner or episode here.
So come and discuss the greatest sci-fi franchise in history free from rogue mods on power trip.
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Gene Roddenberry was a Communist and I miss the Communist ideals represented in his writing.
Gene wasn't a Communist. I have no idea why people believe this. People keep saying it's becauseTrek is insanely Communist but it's just... Not? Everything isn't owned by the state, people own land, etc.
But back to Gene. His behavior alone shows he wasn't a Communist. He wrote lyrics to the Trek theme that were never used so he'd have a writing credit and get kickbacks from the royalties. He set up a company to sell Trek merch but put it in his new wife's name so his ex wife wouldnt get a claim on it as part of divorce proceedings. Dude leaned on everyone and destroyed relationships to make sure he had most creative control over the movies and TNG.
Nothing about him was communist.
Who told you Communism is when everything is owned by the state? Communism is when society becomes so technologically advanced and so abundant in resources that the state withers away and currency is no longer needed. So, you know, Star Trek. Also, his wife said he was a Communist
Okay, so not Star Trek then as there is explicitly a state. The Federation itself has its own mandates and laws but every individual planet is governed as well. The Federation is a Representative Republic that has an election every 4 years.
Actions speak louder than words and his actions blatantly demonstrate that he was not a communist.
Source.
Currency was even a thing during TOS, something that often gets ignored. Federation Credits. Credits which were used to entice bounty hunters to go after specific targets, to purchase highly unique items and used to pay for the training of crewmen. Kirk bitches about how much it costs to train Spock at one point. Kirk even gave Scotty 'a weeks bonus pay' for getting the phasers up and running when dealing with the Doomsday machine. Think all that ended in TOS? Well, no. Federation Credits were still used constantly in TNG. The Barzans and their wormhole. The Federation was willing to cough up over a million credits then and there plus another 100k every year after that to get rights to the wormhole. More examples on top of that that are not exactly difficult to find.
Nothing about Trek is 'communist' and it's often wildly misunderstood to be so. Very little about Gene was communist other than a claim from his wife after the man had died. And something that he never really demonstrated at any point in his life.
It's okay to believe in communism and still engage in capitalism because you're living in a capitalist society. Obviously there's only so much I can gleam without having known the guy myself. But, that being said, I'm a Communist and as a Communist, I know what Communist dog whistling sounds like and I know that, at the very least, season 1 on TNG is chock full of Communist dog whistling
There's a difference between believing in communism and being a Communist. You cannot have your cake and eat it too.
As for Communist dog whistling in Season 1... Care to provide examples? Hard to refute something without examples.
Trek overall though isn't Communist. There are too many glaring inconcsistencies to claim the Federation as being Communist. It's a post-scarcity socialism.
Post scarcity socialism sure as shit sounds like Communism to me. In fact, one of the most important things when evolving from socialism to Communism is eliminating scarcity
Right. "That's actually the same as what I said because one of the words in what you said is partially relevant to what I said."
This conversation is pointless if you're not going to subscribe to reality.
Goodbye.
You should learn what communism actually is. It'll probably help with your arguments in the future. Read a book.