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by shagie 1597 days ago
> A future of Star Trek, where the protective veil of some kind of "prime directive" is being lifted as we reach certain level of development as civilisation and then we get a galaxy-wide club membership feels like naive funny fairy tale. It would be of course great if that would happen but it's more likely reality is, or will be way too mundane and unattractive.

A story on that topic - The Crystal Spheres by David Brin

https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-crystal-spher...

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Thank you for the link - pretty sure I've bumped on this story once but got it lost in the sea of my bookmarks