The Federation is helping a planet transition out of capitalism to post-scarcity, and it’s basically a huge celebration.

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    I hate Rick Berman I hate Rick Berman I hate Rick Berman. Every bad trend we see in nuTrek really did start with Berman Trek.

    One of the many great things Lower Decks did was when Cerritos visited DS9 and Boimler extremely obviously just did not give a shit about latinum at all.

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      It checks out that Rick Berman also hated children and used “childish” and “children” to speak down to people he didn’t like. The fact that the Enterprise-D had children on board, including schools and such for them, enraged him because his war fixation didn’t have room for that.

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        One of the good plots from DS9 was Keiko O’Brien fighting against then-Vedek Winn to keep reactionary religion from fucking up science education.

        We barely got any Keiko after that though, especially in her role as a teacher. Not grim dark adults in the room enough for Berman.

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          We barely got any Keiko after that though, especially in her role as a teacher. Not grim dark adults in the room enough for Berman.

          Agreed, and I think that was a direct consequence of Berman’s hatred for children in general and “Adult In The Room” self-identification.