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WCDT: 2001-2005 (29 Aug-2 Sept 2011)
gangler:
Ah, that makes sense. So basically they're like any other organization that chooses to self-regulate.
Looking at a group of intergalactic peacekeepers, see them come to a ruling regarding whether someone gets equal rights or not. I'm just looking thinking "Damn. This is just asking for corruption. There's a group who'll eventually have to be overthrown if I've ever seen one."
In that case I hope things work out as well for Data when the same question gets asked by the United Federation of Planets.
Mr_Rose:
Heh. All this fictional legalism reminds me of an essay, by a professed Star Wars fan, that claimed the Federation was a fascist dictatorship based on the fact that there are almost no civilian starships.
I wonder if he ever figured out that by the same metric so is the USA, since almost no individuals own their own jumbo jets. Or aircraft carriers.
Skaltura:
It's also important to note that the Starfleet you see in "The Measure Of A Man" has not gone through their version of 9/11 (the Battle of Wolf 359 seen in the episode "The Best of Both Worlds" in TNG and "The Emissary" in DS9).
Post 359 Starfleet is considerably, well, murkier and far less idealistic.
jwhouk:
Woo. Going from I, Robot to a discussion of the ST universe.
Personally, of course, I have a soft spot for TOS. I mean, come ON; I was born minutes after "Mirror, Mirror" aired. TNG is pretty good, if it only filled out things that TOS never got to deal with.
I never really got into DS9, if only because it was mostly concurrent with TNG, and it was a bit too much like Gunsmoke to TNG's Wagon Train.
Voyager was just a bit too way out there. And adding Seven of Nine was just an attempt to pander to HNG's.
I am one of those weirdos, though, who thought Enterprise had a LOT of potential - which they flushed down the toilet with the whole "destroy a chunk of the earth" thing.
Spectreofwar:
--- Quote from: Mr_Rose on 03 Sep 2011, 16:28 ---Heh. All this fictional legalism reminds me of an essay, by a professed Star Wars fan, that claimed the Federation was a fascist dictatorship based on the fact that there are almost no civilian starships.
--- End quote ---
And THAT statement reminds me of Starship Troopers! :D
Also in a somewhat off-topic comment, DS9 was what it was in part due to Babylon 5, which in my mind a superior program. Ethics played a good part in a lot of that show as well, where aliens and human telepaths are concerned.
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