The Federation is helping a planet transition out of capitalism to post-scarcity, and it’s basically a huge celebration.
It’s in reaaaaaal close constest with tng for my 2 spot behind the unmoving ds9. The lack of episodes kinda makes the difference for me
Ds9 is falling in my estimation and has been for some time. It committed several grave sins, among them introducing latinum and section 31. It also has a strong dose of what @UlyssesT@hexbear.net might call “Adults In The Room Making Hard Choices”
I blocked that user prior to the fall, resurrection and sanctification and I’ll keep it that way. Introducing Latinum and Section 31 are ‘sins’ I guess if you’re a child who needs all their media to be didactic. Latinum is shown to only be valued by those who value it and those who don’t use it don’t seem any worse off, if anything better and section 31 was handled pretty well in ds9, later stuff may have done a bad job and it should have stayed in ds9 but that doesn’t fault the show itself. It’s got here and there issues but I kinda like that star fleet is shown fromsn outside perspective as kinda naive plant pompous jerks, cause they fucking are. I’ve got criticisms of the show but damn are they totally not the ones you have.
Not all media, but Star Trek specifically should be communist propaganda and any failure to be so is a failure to be good Star Trek.
Everything that is bad about the bad nutrek started with DS9.
The even worse example is “For the Uniform” where Sisko does a war crime specifically against anti-fascist guerillas. And most people I see talking about it, even here, defend his actions as necessary Adult In The Room Hard Choices.
