Episode Notes

If you've ever had to slog through mountains of paperwork, make dozens of phone calls, and find yourself speaking to robots on the other end, you know how impossible and infuriating bureaucracy can be. But are there any benefits to it? And how does it function in Trek? Today we do a deep dive into the systems of government in Trek, what the holes are, and how we think we could fix it. We get into:

• Star Trek is about colonialism
• How does the portrayal of bureaucracy change over time in Trek?
• A debate about which Trek society are the libertarians
• What object would you remove from the Alpha Quadrant?
• &MORE

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