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philwelch on Feb 8, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Star Trek as a purely symbolic artifact of past ti...

> Perhaps Star Trek depicts a humanity that has finally decided to better itself consistently, on a mass and individual level.

That's more or less explicitly the point. I think that's almost word-for-word what Roddenberry wrote in the series bibles, for TNG if not TOS.

kirbysayshi on Feb 8, 2012 [–]

Picard states this several times, almost explicitly, when explaining to alien cultures why the Federation doesn't use money. The pursuit of wealth was superseded by the pursuit of the betterment of the fellow man/member of the Federation.

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