I'm curious if there is a govenrmental type that personifies Gene Roddenberry's vision of Star Trek?
I'm curious if there is a govenrmental type that personifies Gene Roddenberry's vision of Star Trek?What??
The governmental style of the United Federation of Planets. What is the name of it?
heh a Federation
heh a Federation
Yeah, well I don't completely buy that. People in the Trek-verse have the freedom to pursue any life path without being hindered by monetary or prejudicial barriers.
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I got news for you spud. If they ever told you a tale of the people at the Bottom of the Federation the view is of an underclass in agricultural production and mining with very little authority or decision making power. That lies at the top in the hands of a millitocracy who decide which aliens you get to have friendly relations with and which you don’t.
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I saw the mining in TOS however they had no need for an agricultural underclass to feed the masses since they could and often did just use a mechanical device to make what you needed. Want a new winter coat? go to the replicator and call one up. Want a fattening cream cheese pie, well you can eat it and have all the nutrients of a four course meal. Now everyone has a right to be fat and lazy and poets and.......
Get really bored really quick. Now add in good birth control....
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The united states is actually a fairly good example. Its a federal government that runs over an alliance of smaller governments (in this case like our states) that are in essence independent but submit to the laws of the whole. Canada is probably a better example, since it seems if you watch TOS that every planet was dominated by a small group of humans living in a free-market styled but socialist society.
There's elements of a variety of government types in the Federation although it doesn't correspond fully to any existing government system either. The pressures and requirements as well as capabilities are different. That said the British Parliamentary model and the American Republican model both have elements that melded together could correspond to what little we have seen of the Federation government on screen. Of course in some ways this is like the universal translator, stardates or kiloquads; in some ways it is best NOT to ask.
I got news for you spud. If they ever told you a tale of the people at the Bottom of the Federation the view is of an underclass in agricultural production and mining with very little authority or decision making power. That lies at the top in the hands of a millitocracy who decide which aliens you get to have friendly relations with and which you don’t.
Like Firefly: after we colonize space, the poor people live like cowboys.
Humm, space, governments, Tensor in the thread, Firefly. Was bound to happen
But yep firefly FTW
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I got news for you spud. If they ever told you a tale of the people at the Bottom of the Federation the view is of an underclass in agricultural production and mining with very little authority or decision making power. That lies at the top in the hands of a millitocracy who decide which aliens you get to have friendly relations with and which you don’t.Like Firefly: after we colonize space, the poor people live like cowboys.
No. The 'Poor' of Firefly are the Indentured Slaves (like the mudders from Jaynestown) or the Starving (seen on the eavesdown docks on Persephone) The freebooter class would be your cowboys travelling the spaceways living off the plunder of others or eeking out an eXistance as Merchants, Traders, Bandits, and mercenaries...
