In case you don't know, they explicitly use the term socialist to describe the Federation economy in SNW. I was wondering if ppl liked or hated it? I like it personally since it's not a dodge like "new world economy"

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[–] [S] 13 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Where are you if I may ask? And I think it may have been a dictate of Gene Roddenberry to not name which economic system won out, which is kind of a copout. But yeah it's refreshing to see it called what it is finally

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    Gene Roddenberry was a Maoist. Pretty sure this was a studio thing, not a Gene thing.

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    According to his wife Majel, yes.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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    I admit I'm having trouble finding any transcript of the primary source. It's supposedly an answer she gave during a local convention and it's been repeated by enough websites citing each other that I don't know which one was the original.

    I'll keep trying to find it, though.

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