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There\u2019s like a billion Star Trek episodes with the premise \u201cWe need to relocate this group of people, surely it\u2019ll be easy to convince them.\u00a0 Oops, turns out that they don\u2019t want to leave, this is much trickier than we imagined.\u201c

Perhaps an important lesson to drive home though

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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, \u201cis Starfleet the Navy or NASA\u201d and answers \u201cthe Navy\u201d from the same post-Vietnam Professional Military scene that spawned Steve Bannon and Tom Clancy

But \u201ca venue for educated humanists and organic volk-elites to be given a domain of autonomy but expected to resolve other people\u2019s cultures\u201d 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\u2019s just as sweaty paranoid as you\u2019d 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

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