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I've still not tried it. I should probably turn off chat and give it a go.

Yeah, there's a singular implied "universal morality" throughout Star Trek of accepting diversity and learning to not impose on other civilizations or each other on the basis of one's biological differences or culture, even for Klingons! I'd say the rest is hard to define and subjective, as @ValueSubtracted@startrek.website said above, but post-scarcity and free agency in life to follow your passions has to be pretty close!

I don't know if it was the same people, but it definitely felt like a spiritual successor!

That's a good point. I think this contrast between individual (often flawed) human judgment vs collectivist ideals has always been a theme. In TOS, you see Kirk calming McCoy's knee-jerk reactions almost every episode. In TNG, it was Yar or Worf. In DS9, probably Kira.

Even then, I would say the collectivist ideals (i.e. Starfleet regulations) were more often portrayed as overly-cumbersome in implementation, which leads to someone like Kirk violating the rules in place of the ideals that they stand for. For example, how many naïve (but well-meaning) diplomats do we see in TOS or TNG? However, rules being restrictive or imperfect in an effort to support larger agreed-upon morals can still be trusted, compared to corrupt power structures, which cannot.

Ah damn, sorry about the paywall. It let me hit "continue reading" on mobile, but I know sometimes these types of sites can be inconsistent.

It’s just another tired bit about how following orders and perfect institutions are what Star Trek is really about, to hell with any evidence to the contrary.

I'd argue that the theme is less about following orders and more We are all individually flawed and are at our best when we follow our shared values - which is represented by both Starfleet and the utopian setting as a whole.

I can see the argument (for fiction and real life), that as we trust institutions less, our focus becomes more on individual judgement rather than collectivist ideas. It also tracks for me that as this occurs in real life, our media would reflect individualism more and more.

Haha, sorry - I just assumed everyone had heard of this wonderful nightmare! Like the other commenter said, it's called "Getting Over It". It has cool narration as you're playing - you'll fall down and then get a talk about overcoming failure.

Good luck!

I've admittedly still only watched up through the 90s, but I'd definitely say that DS9 depicted a significantly more "morally gray" version of Starfleet than TOS or TNG.

I think the point the author is making is that the extent to which this idea gets explored is reflective of our society's growing mistrust of institutions IRL, rather than suggesting the theme has never been explored.

So many times...

I used to when it was easier to watch it on streaming without ads... As soon as I set up a media server and acquire it somehow, I'll be back in business!

Thanks for the input - that's exactly my dilemma. I've been posting on AnarchyChess too, but the AnarchyChess from reddit that inspired the AnarchyChess community on lemmy was more for highly ironic shitposting, so depending on how strict we want to be, this comic and normal memes wouldn't really work there.

There doesn't seem to be a separate "Chess Memes" community on Lemmy yet, and I suppose I could just create one, but I also don't know if the need is there to split the already small communities again. For now, I figure I'll just feel out what the mods/communities in @chess@lemmy.ml and @AnarchyChess@sopuli.xyz want.

I agree! I want all of those things, but I'm also going to chuckle at how silly it looks until we're all accustomed to it. I feel like if Apple is embracing AR goggles, then there's a good chance of it becoming mainstream.

Elder Cactus is the best out there if it's your sense of humor. I can't get enough of it.

Perfection, haha

Does your cat jump when Gotham yells?

Mine left the room once when he was trying to sleep and Gotham screamed "the roooook!!!"

Well I'll be damned.

Also, if you're going to tell me that an opening is called either the "Polish Opening" or the "Orangutan Opening", it's no contest which one I'm going to remember.

This is almost certainly it, but my first thought was that it was just one of those weird alterations that scifi shows/movies do to everday objects to make them look different and futuristic.