6/15/2023 0 Comments Download arrow s07e15![]() ![]() This depiction of the future feels impossible in 2015. Picard: To improve yourself… enrich yourself. Offenhouse: There’s no trace of my money - my office is gone - what will I do? How will I live? In the first season, in an episode I’m going to tell you to watch, Captain Picard defrosts a cryogenically frozen Gordon Gecko type figure from our century named Ralph Offenhouse, and they have this conversation: Humanity has dedicated itself to exploration and self-improvement. Food is created instantly in replicators. Energy comes from matter-antimatter reactors (or something). ![]() In the world of Star Trek, hunger and poverty have been eliminated. Earth, along with a bunch of alien planets, is part of the United Federation of Planets (The Federation) which is a like a space U.N., devoted to universal liberty, rights, equality, sharing knowledge, and exploring the galaxy. ![]() Our heroes fly around on a 1,000-person spaceship run by Starfleet, which is Earth’s peacekeeping/military organization. I love Star Trek because it gives us a vision of the future where reasonable people resolve conflicts by talking.
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