Not much of a revelation, just an observation, but how much of sci-fi pushes the ideal that Humanity's path forward is unification?
Star Trek is a major one, and many would state it was a progressive show, and it earnestly was.
It also stated that in its ideal future, there's a Federation of like-minded extraterrestrials, and as a member species, Humanity lives in a united, post-scarcity society under a single government.
To that end, how many alien species in these stories are so inhuman, in that they have no differences, a world-wide government, a single language?
It's laughable how direct the propaganda was, and continues to be.
Star Trek only works because it shows you a very narrow and heavily curated glimpse of its universe via the crew and adventures of, primarily, one starship. The people onboard the Enterprise have been carefully filtered by the federation to allow only highly specific and compatible ideologies to be present. Even in those cases where a crew member holds cultural values that diverge from the norm, like the Klingon Wharf, these differences are almost entirely paved over through a combination of shoddy writing and sheer selective blindness.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that the social and cultural dynamics of Star trek are even more retardedly unrealistic than the technology.
Worf, not Wharf. But that is funny.
I mean, fair enough. As a morality play, it has to be so constrained.