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by nyc_data_geek 275 days ago
Feel like we're doing pretty well on the Star Trek timeline, tbh. Got to get through the Eugenics Wars
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I have to remind myself Star Trek TNG starts with the crew being put on trial for the crimes of humanity and the terrible fascist court they're in is from the show's vision of a more immediate future than the one we were watching on the rest of the show.
Exactly! We don't get luxury space communism until after we defeat the nascent Terran Empire... or else we end up the Terran Empire