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There are no billionaires in star trek, Elon.

Lower Decks made fun of billionaires in the latest season. There was a planet that recently joined the Federation and was burning money and throwing away gold. And there were some unhappy local billionaires.
- I want one of their "no money no problems" t-shirts
Sure there are. They are all short with really big erogenous ears.
- People should absolutely reply with pictures of Quark and various Ferengi.
Elon names stuff after things in The Culture, but he's Joiler Veppers
A Starfleet Captain commands the wealth of nations. I don't think it's fair to say Billionaires Don't Exist so much as to say the liberal ideal Meritocracy is made manifest.
- Being entrusted with large amounts of resources is very different from owning large amounts of resources.
- I’m in charge of $600 million+ worth of hardware at my job. This does not grant me monetary agency over the value of that hardware.
Exactly. I would have started with ending all monetary systems and starting a global post-scarcity society.

Somebody show this clown TNG The Most Toys, the one where the emotionless android feels a surge of hate and blasts the space billionaire that enslaved him.

RIKER: Mister O'Brien says the weapon was in a state of discharge.

DATA: Perhaps something occurred during transport, Commander.

And then he gets away with it because Riker hates billionaires too 😎👌

The transporter chief would be the only one who could have told Riker for certain otherwise, and well... The chief on duty was certainly no friend to billionaires.
- A good union man.
- And now I know how he got on Sisko's radar. Perfect man for the job.

Star Trek is Woke! Oh yeah. The whole idea of sci-fi is exploring ethical dilemmas in the real world, but using advanced technology as a metaphor. MAGA isn't smart enough to see through the ruse.

Elon's caught in a liminal space between Wine Mom Liberal and Extremely Divorced Chud. He remembers people being excited about Star Trek, but he only grasps the "pew pew space lasers!" part, not the "ethical dilemma of the Kobayashi Maru" part.
If he'd been fully MAGA'd, he would be raving about Bringing Christ's Holy Message Beyond the Stars or doing Heinlein callbacks to Moon Is A Harsh Mistress.
Instead, he's still got this latent impulse to convince whatever dregs of the 1960s Space Race liberals left at NASA that he's still cool.

We're obviously in the Terran universe

We're actually still on track for the prime Star Trek universe. Things got really, really bad before humanity got its shit together. That last part is how you know it's fiction.
- Things regularly get bad and then good again. The Star Trek lore is modeled on the Hoover Great Depression giving way to a New Deal and Great Society.
  The fact that it was written in the 1960s, when that monumental economic transformation was just wrapping up, isn't a coincidence.
  Places like Texas and Florida were being transformed from agricultural backwaters to the forefront of interplanetary travel. The distance spanned between 1929 and 1969 is borderline magical.
- I think the point where the universes diverge is when we decide how cool goatees are.
- I say it's not too late to start the Bell riots.
If you mean Earthlike, yes, we are on Earth (Latin name Terra)
- They mean the Terran Empire https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Terran_Empire

Bet he's hoping for the mermaid right there.

What a fucking tonedef two-bit cleptoclown.

Fucking poser. Like if the imbecile wanted moneyless, post scarcity society. He just wants warp drives, phasers, and oppression.

Warp drive? Fast transport for large masses of people? Sounds communist. We should bore tunnels for slow cars beneath Las Vegas instead.
- Fast transport for large masses of goods and services seems more likely in his mind.

Second step: Ensure all are provided for regardless of nationality, work status, etc

Third step: Ensure all have the right to speak out, to join in the process of decision making, the freedom of movement, etc

TIL holograms can seriously burn you.

He does know that Star Trek is post-apocalyptic, right?

For anyone who takes this serious:

There have been a lot of talks about a MTI ("Mars Technology Institute") to develop strategies to deal with living on mars. Idk whether it ever made progress though.

Elon Musk's Step 1) Create an entire generation of indentured servants whose debt would be generational to pay for the trip to Mars.
No /s
This ain't your daddy's star trek.