@BriannaWu Ok it's more of a social democracy than anything else. But we are way past the days where Klingons were Communism allegories, so the Federation's economic framework is sorta up to interpretation.

@beemerw21 It’s kind of not. There is no interpretation of DS9 that is socialist.

@BriannaWu The Borg is Islam, though, right?

@Wrex_I The Borg in Star Trek are basically a metaphor for progressivism. You have to think the same thoughts of the hive mind, and if you deviate you will be destroyed for the good of the collective. Individuality is erased. There is no hierarchy.

@BriannaWu The far left thinks Star Trek is socialist and the far right thinks it's conservative. Horseshoe theory is their norm.

@BradBelmont There are a lot of conservative themes in Star Trek. Duty is a massive theme.

@BriannaWu I agree with you. Star Trek is full of American assumptions of individualism and trade as natural. Literally my writing above is saying that. Point is, that's reflective of the limits of the writers of Star Trek, not a truth of the world. The show is neoliberal; you're not wrong.

@jessiegender Apologies. Given the hostility you showed me on discord the other night after I pointed out you were posting a blatant lie on Twitterabout me, and the way we agreed to have a call with cooler heads which you ghosted, I was assuming this was more passive aggression.

@BriannaWu Clearly Star Trek as embodied by TOS is a Zionist plot by @WilliamShatner & Nimoy to project “inalienable” and “human rights” ahead of first contact, to instill human (and in the subtext (((Zionist))) dominance prior to the formation of any type of Federation of Planets. #LLAP

@BriannaWu Also Starfleet != The United Federation of Planets. The US Navy provides food and supplies to crewmembers too, and produces water and oxygen using a nuclear power plant (i.e., virtually free energy) -- that doesn't make our world post-scarcity.

@BriannaWu People can’t seem to understand the concept of post-scarcity

@BriannaWu Star Trek is largely economically incoherent...and this is because it was overwhelmingly written by humanities majors, not economic theorists.

@BriannaWu The key thing is that it's still a meritocracy, and you have to work hard if you want a certain position. It's post scarcity so you'll never starve and you'll always be housed, and never worry about paying the bills, but unless you work hard you'll never find meaning.

@BriannaWu Science fiction author here. I have an alternative theory, born from personal knowledge. The writers didn't think it through.

@BriannaWu It absolutely is socialist. They completely did away with capitalism and money period. No one has to work if they don't want to everything is provided for them. How could you not call that socialist? Yes some rare exceptions like the Sisko restaurant, But not the norm.

@BriannaWu The Federation is a liberal constitutional republic. The Vulcans more conservative. The Romulans/Kingons more leftist/fascist. The Borg are leftist/communist.

@BriannaWu Indeed if anything, many of the enemies of the Federation - especially the Borg and the Dominion could be viewed as representing of socialism/communism.

@BriannaWu It's also fiction. You're taking about fictional characters.

@BriannaWu Damnit I thought I finally had a reason to explain why I was never able to get interested in startrek other than “meh idk “

@BriannaWu Correct.