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Originally Posted by Whitestar The Federation is a totalitarian regime who does not care for its citizens well-being. It must be overthrown and replaced with a more benign government (if there is such a thing). |
Oh Yeah! You and who's army. Tha's fightin' talk!
Seriously, I agree with everything you said (and I've read it before too), except that much of that later development was beyond Roddenberry's original concept.
What about the 'Prime Directive'? That doesn't strike me as the ideology of a Totalitarian regime. It doesn't work though. Star Fleet Captains break the 'Prime Directive' on more occasions than they mention it. Kirk and Janeway break it everyday before breakfast!
I much prefer Iain M Bank's idea of the 'Culture'; a regime that constantly interferes and tinkers with other societies to set them back upon what they deem to be the right path. Much more like our own Governments do today.
Have you ever seen this website?:
The Fascist Ideology of Star Trek: Militarism, Collectivism, & Atheism