buckykat [none/use name]

Not if you’ve got faith of the heart

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Management is necessarily the enemy of the worker.

He’s the head of the company, he could accept the union’s terms on behalf of Paramount any time.

He could resolve it tomorrow by accepting the union’s reasonable demands. He could have resolved it weeks ago by accepting the union’s reasonable demands.

It’s what the entire article is about

“The notion that the strikes saved the company is wildly overstated,” Bob Bakish said of Paramount today.

Any statement from management about strikes should be assumed to be the direct opposite of the truth.

Who gives a shit what the president of the company thinks of the strikes?

The Federation’s position on genetic engineering is not well considered

The meat Federation citizens eat isn’t really an animal product. In the Orville, it’s actually made explicit that killing an animal for food is regarded as tantamount to murder in the Union.

And when they do use space suits they open their helmets the moment they find an even marginally breathable atmosphere

Murf also doesn’t have any bones to drink

The de-Tuvixing transport is functionally the same as the duplication transport and can be done with no external phenomena. And there are other examples of transporters being used in “impossible” ways that suggest they are more capable than the Federation is willing to admit, like both Scotty and M’Benga using them for long term stasis.

I think it stems from the Federation’s pervasive anti-transhumanist bent which is usually attributed to the trauma of the human eugenics wars.

What about the times the transporter does duplicate people, like Kirk, Riker, and Boimler? To me, this suggests the transporter’s inability to duplicate people is less of a technological limitation and more of a software-enforced taboo.

Absolutely. Star Trek writers are in no way immune to capitalist realism themselves, especially when they’re beholden to studio execs and budgets.

I didn’t make it more than a few episodes into Picard before giving up in disgust, and this only validates my choice there. It’s not just Picard though. Strange New Worlds is generally quite good, but the colony shown in the most recent episode was explicitly modeled on a mid 20th century American small town, a place Federation citizens should know better than to emulate.

Are there any novels or fanfics you’d recommend that do an actual good job of portraying a properly post scarcity Federation culture?

A Star Trek about civilians would have to be done extremely carefully to not ruin everything with gold pressed latinum.

Those kids aren’t technically Starfleet officers (in season 1) but they’re very Starfleet.

Honorary Tamarian

T’Lyn is fitting in perfectly. The way she deadpanned “losing” her notes and then immediately explained her choice as a straightforward matter of ethics was fantastic.

And the UFP flag is giving globe emoji on first glance