RyanThunder wrote:They probably have a centrally-managed command economy.
If it's an interstellar federation, why would the economy be centralized instead of being managed at the federated-state level and simply coordinated by the Federation for resource-reallocation between colonies ?
... Though upon further reflection this would still be somewhat centrally managed, only with many centers instead of only one...
RyanThunder wrote:They probably have a centrally-managed command economy.
If it's an interstellar federation, why would the economy be centralized instead of being managed at the federated-state level and simply coordinated by the Federation for resource-reallocation between colonies ?
... Though upon further reflection this would still be somewhat centrally managed, only with many centers instead of only one...
I get the impression I get is that worlds are allowed to do a they see fit, provided they met certain standards. No slavery, etc.
i was looking at internet trek reviews yesterday. one of them is "the defector" tng
in this episode, a romulan admiral defects to the federation, spilling all kinds of secret info to picard in an attempt to prevent a war
but in the end it turns out that the romulans fed him fake stuff to test his loyalty. he failed
what the 'net reviewer pointed out was that the romulan admiral gave picard messages for his children and he was confident that one day they would be delivered
what this means is that the romulan regime wasn't going to punish his family for his betrayals (at least not too bad anyway)
contrast to the real world where that kind of family as hostage shit happens a lot
....and i now would also note that with the klingon empire, where "sins of the father" had both worf and kurn at risk of execution for their father's betrayal of the empire
RyanThunder wrote:They probably have a centrally-managed command economy.
If it's an interstellar federation, why would the economy be centralized instead of being managed at the federated-state level and simply coordinated by the Federation for resource-reallocation between colonies ?
... Though upon further reflection this would still be somewhat centrally managed, only with many centers instead of only one...
Well I actually meant what you said in the end there, but I think subspace communication might let you attempt to centrally manage on the interstellar scale like that as well.
Aaron wrote:So Troi wondered why the federation was dealing with the melted face people in insurrection cause they have slaves and make drugs.
But the Feds are close allies with the Klingons, an empire that includes subject races, and are essentially warmongering thugs...
Perhaps between TOS and TNG, the Klingons were slowly becoming less brutal to their subjects, so the Federation thought that they could play moral leader. In a century or so, the Klingon Republic or something.
Gands wrote:Perhaps between TOS and TNG, the Klingons were slowly becoming less brutal to their subjects, so the Federation thought that they could play moral leader. In a century or so, the Klingon Republic or something.
I will totally subscribe to this notion because I have just read a book about the lives of three UN foreign workers in the 90s as the New World Order kicked in. After the Battle of Mogadishu and Clinton's reaction to that, with the administration afraid to commit forces for UN ops, Haitians, Rwandans, Serbians, all were emboldened to go on an orgy of genocide knowing that the America wouldn't back a UN intervention until it was far too late.
Given Roddenberry's intent for TNG, I can totally, totally see this being the case.
"also it really shits my mum so it's a good way of winding her up"
I was reading TEO's SWvST forum. (i know, i know, but i was bored) and someone there was making a big deal about the predictions the crazy Genetically Modified people made about the dominion war. That the UFP's losing was inevitable and the be 900 billion casualties and so on.
And I was thinking; but they didn't lose in the end. So were The GM people just wrong? Or was there soem factor they didn't account for? This was after DS9 was retaken, so its not like the prophet's intervention changed things greatly after that.
The only think, I guess they might not have known about was Section 31. But even then Section 31 didn't really change feddie defeat into victory. Maybe the disease got the founder to surrender rather than fight to the bitter end. But surely that doesn't change the eventual outcome. Just really ramps up the allied casualties.
Or was Damar's rebellion an unexpected turning point?
I don't know, seems like the simplest idea is the GM Guy's predictions weren't all they were hyped up to be.
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