The shooter won, I guess.
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Federation on S1: psychology and psychiatry have been perfected and we have solved the problem of evil.
Rest of Star Trek: 💀
Federation on S1: "Gene Roddenberry, in his infinite wisdom, has removed all interpersonal conflict. The show is borderline unwatchable and has an episode even leftists hate (Code of Honor)."
Rest of Star Trek: "Oh no! It turns out meaningful conflict is the soul of drama! Quick, make them bicker again!"
Roddenberry didn't object to conflict, he just didn't want the usual fake TV drama between the main crew members. TNG mostly avoided that pretty well, even in the later seasons.
He also demanded a "cashless society" which caused endless problems and cut a huge number of potential storylines from the show.
It's rarely, if ever, addressed that there's no money or anything else like it in the Federation. :/
And when they do, it shows the writers' confusion on how to deal with this.
I get replicators changed the game, but come on.
Maybe that's one reason why I like the Ferengi so much.
It's one of the things I was hoping the Kelvin Timeline movies would fix, like they did with getting consistent Stardates. Alas.
ST Voyager "solved it" by rationing replicator access. The "ration tickets" became a default currency.
Janeway also refused to hand over replicator technology, which would not have caused her or the Federation any harm to do so. But it is in accordance with 'The Prime Directive' which every other Captain violated with glee!
"Federation on S1: psychology and psychiatry have been perfected and we have solved the problem of evil."
Yet the Federation shit themselves when they ran into Armus on Vagra II.
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Armus