collapsedsquid:

There’s like a billion Star Trek episodes with the premise “We need to relocate this group of people, surely it’ll be easy to convince them.  Oops, turns out that they don’t want to leave, this is much trickier than we imagined.“

Perhaps an important lesson to drive home though

Star Trek, and so much midcentury American SF, were so tied to WWII and the American occupations

Ron Moore in DS9 and especially neo-BSG teased this, “is Starfleet the Navy or NASA” and answers “the Navy” from the same post-Vietnam Professional Military scene that spawned Steve Bannon and Tom Clancy

But “a venue for educated humanists and organic volk-elites to be given a domain of autonomy but expected to resolve other people’s cultures” was ABSOLUTELY part of the late- and immediate-post-WWII American military

I think of this book of early Philip K. Dick stories I read once and it’s just as sweaty paranoid as you’d think from his reputation but not about like, psychedelics and machine-augmented The Man, but extrapolated from the Marshall Plan era, all about the occupied countries outwardly submitting while they spun wheels within wheels of underground plots