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Originally Posted by evileeyore
I take umbrage at the notion that a utopian socialism like Star Trek is economically or socially unrealistic... (it hurts my idealistically utopian communist soul)
C-Punk is close enough to 'real' I don't even need to do any work.
I agree that Soaps and Supes are completely 'unrealistic'. The suspenders get a lot of work.
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Where it matters, meaning where the episodes take place, the Federation has notably not accomplished any such thing. It engages in power politics, law enforcement, gunboat diplomacy, and sometimes full scale war. Whether or not that was a sarcasm and whether or not true utopia is possible, a real literary utopia has no conflict. Most serious narrative attempts end up giving you an Omelas.