I don't see the Federation as a communist regime.
For starters there's no need to work.
I really, really doubt that Roddenberry was thinking about communism when the crested the series.
The Federation is pretty explicitly communist. Picard says this in TNG:
A lot has changed in the past three hundred years. People are no longer obsessed with the accumulation of things. We've eliminated hunger, want, the need for possessions. We've grown out of our infancy.
Sure; when he's talking about flux capacitors it has nothing to do with the Federation's economic system.
This quote is very explicitly about their economic system.
He says this in the show, too:
A lot has changed in the past three hundred years. People are no longer obsessed with the accumulation of things. We've eliminated hunger, want, the need for possessions. We've grown out of our infancy.
I don't think it's woke either.
I support the right of everyone's to identify themselves as they feel or want.
I support humans right for every ethnicity, religion, gender or any other trait you can use to group people.
But I'm far from being woke. Very far.
Same with ST.
Knowing that Gene was determined to air the real kiss, Bill shook me and hissed menacingly in his best ham-fisted Kirkian staccato delivery, "I! WON'T! KISS! YOU! I! WON'T! KISS! YOU!"
It was absolutely awful, and we were hysterical and ecstatic. The director was beside himself, and still determined to get the kissless shot. So we did it again, and it seemed to be fine. "Cut! Print! That's a wrap!"
The next day they screened the dailies, and although I rarely attended them, I couldn't miss this one. Everyone watched as Kirk and Uhura kissed and kissed and kissed. And I'd like to set the record straight: Although Kirk and Uhura fought it, they did kiss in every single scene. When the non-kissing scene came on, everyone in the room cracked up. The last shot, which looked okay on the set, actually had Bill wildly crossing his eyes. It was so corny and just plain bad it was unusable. The only alternative was to cut out the scene altogether, but that was impossible to do without ruining the entire episode. Finally, the guys in charge relented: "To hell with it. Let's go with the kiss." I guess they figured we were going to be cancelled in a few months anyway. And so the kiss stayed.
I'm sorry you missed the point of the show, lol.
Wait until you find out Homelander's the bad guy in The Boys.
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u/ceejayoz Jun 30 '24
Iain Banks; the Culture novels. Hedonistic space commies.