Is Star Treks Utopian Vision Of The Future Possible?
Iqbal_M
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With the death of Leonard Nimoy yesterday. I would like to pose the question that I have asked myself from time to time, is the utopian vision of future laid out in Star Trek possible?
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Even in the Trek Universe we have to go through terrible wars, including a eugenics one to get to that point though.
Red Dwarf has good science in it compared to Star Trek and that's a comedy
Ross asked him abut his bowel motions.Mentioning the' Captains Log'.:D
It's a fantasy. A nice fantasy, but an unrealistic one.
I love the show, but it was borne out of the idealism of the sixties, and time has proved that human nature is much more complex, and such radical changes do not come easy.
Star Trek had scientific advisers on the production staff to insure any technology and scientific concepts were is as accurate as possible
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Bormanis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Okuda
By the standards of 1960's TV production values the original series looks quite utopian to me.
It's difficult to imagine in a way, as we're so socially backwards as a species and not quite as advanced as we think we are.
I'd say something approximating it will be along within the next 500 years or so, predicated on the present system we have being completely unsustainable.
Ah, that's me sold then
I like that they can travel at 10x light speed and have 'g-dampers' that manage to restrain the ridiculous g-forces, but they still get knocked off their feet
You know, even at 10x the speed of light, you wouldn't be going anywhere fast in galaxy terms. It'd take you several months just to get to the nearest star
For a start some people if not most people are selfish and want everything for themselves or at least more than the other person and so the flat across the board level playing field just wouldn't last long. Even on the Enterprise you still have to have the 'clean out the bogs' jobs whilst the officers enjoy many more privileges. So resentment would still exist. It doesn't matter if you take money away, you still have to replace it with reward and as sure as eggs are eggs the officers would get more rewards than the bog cleaners.
Then we get the holodecks where you can have any fantasy you want: the people you want in the place you want doing whatever you want - who the ferk would ever leave?
So no. Nice dreamlike idea back that isn't human nature or how the world works or ever will.
LLAP.
But they have replicator RATIONS! Bet the officers get more RATIONS and so more nice things.
So just the same as money but they call them replicator rations.
The only time replicator rations were used extensively was in Star Trek Voyager, and that was because they were 70,000 light years away form home. Therefore, having to conserve resource.
Some of them look like bloody potatoes!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCARADb9asE
Doesn't that pretty much depend on if you view the human condition as selfish or selfless?
The destruction of this world, for a new one to begin. WW3. 2026.
Money would have to be eliminated also.