What will happen to Picard's Enterprise when they make first contact with a world that has no need for government or authority? This screenplay is for an exciting episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation set in Season 7.
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10 sats \ 2 replies \ @Malachi17 4 Sep
Not bad, but perhaps a little heavy-handed on the political structures in the sense of "anarchy". I was trying to think back if in the eighties and early nineties if it would have worked, and I am inclined to think it wouldn't entirely since the phrase "anarchy" probably wouldn't have been used. The borg, for instance, was a "collective" but had a centralized representative.
Other than that though, the writing has got the tone of the series down.
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @Coinosphere OP 5 Sep
Thanks for reading.
The borg is literally the most communistic race in all sci-fi history. Marx would have fainted at their mere description, much less seeing them in action.
I'll be writing a series of sci-fi fanfic (next up likely Star Wars) all with the express purpose of illustrating what a society could look like without rulers. Pretty much everyone I talk to thought that that means chaos, and couldn't imagine it so I'm drawing as detailed a picture as I can and getting it out to as many as I can.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Malachi17 5 Sep
That's true. They were a more communistic model, but they never used that word to describe them. That's my objection with "anarchy" if that makes sense.
Yeah, I understand the second point. I think of that kind of grouping as egalitarian. more than anarchistic.
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @Malachi17 4 Sep
Your site looks sharp. I'll glance through the reading when I can pull it up. That's not a great start for a writer--the writing should always be up front!
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @Coinosphere OP 5 Sep
Thanks! Beleive it or not, that's not a website, per se. It's a Nostr feed that I'm using as a website.
NpubPro still has come kinks to work out and formatting to make nicer, but it's censorship proof and beats the hell out of paying for a server!
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