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In all seriousness, this movie did have evidence that history changed. Khan wasn’t born till the 21st century (see “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow”).

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They might have eliminated currency but they still had people working as baristas and waiting tables.

These are not jobs you do because they’re fun, and they’re totally unnecessary in a post scarcity world.

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Well. Guinan had reasons entirely separate from mixing drinks.

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Can you imagine all the good intel she’d have access to if she were a romulan spy?

Seriously. Nobody would think they’re a military ship because of all the stupidity, if they didn’t go around taking Klingons and romulans and every other race on and handily smashing them.

The stupidity? Families. Civilians in the bar, who also double as a therapist… because the actual therapist is on the bridge moonlighting as… something.

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21 points

Quark was a bartender because he was a people person. He liked interacting with folks in that setting.

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I remember a episode where he was promoted to grand nagus the bar was supposed to be a good standing ground.

you don’t grab power. You accumulate it, quietly, without anyone noticing." and that Quark’s was the key and a prime location to quietly gather information on the Gamma Quadrant from those who passed through.

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26 points

Quark is a bad example because the Ferengi are a highly capitalist society.

Guinan is a bartender at Ten Forward because she wants to be.

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37 points

Dealing with most customers can be fun if you’re not overworked etc… People volunteer for those roles at community events and have a good time. People open cafés and restaurants because they want to (if you just want to own a small business, they’re far from the best kind to start). It’s the stuff that you’d hope would go away in Star Trek, like entitled customers and not being able to live comfortably between shifts or stop when you don’t want to continue where the unpleasantness comes from.

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entitled customers

Guinan had an answer for those at least!

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Sorry but waiting tables (Sisko’s dad probably had waitstaff, as well as dishwashers, probably a hostess to handle the front of house…) is not a job you’d do for very long because “its fun”. they’re doing it because they’re being compensated for it.

Same goes for baristas. I might enjoy making an espresso when friends and family come over, but that doesn’t mean it’s going to be fun to make 300 drinks a day; for no compensation, just because some star fleet engineers need their morning joe and can’t get it from a replimat.

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This topic came up quite a bit on r/daystrominstitute and there was a generally accepted head canon, at least for me.

The people bussing tables and waiting on customers are there because they’re genuinely learning a trade. Maybe theyre interested in opening a restaurant in the future. In order to do so they need to learn the full ins and outs of how they operate, starting from what is considered the menial tasks of cleaning dishes. I’m sure Joseph Sisko didn’t wake up one morning living in a post-scarcity society, decided he wants to open a creol restaurant, and just walked down to an empty building and started cooking for customers the next day

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Eh. I can see it working.

Humans are social creatures. We like to feel useful and connect with others. In a world with a replicator in every home, dining out is much more about the social experience than the food. Working in a restaurant would be about community and shared interest. People would volunteer to staff them for the same reason people do any form of volunteer work: they enjoy the sense of purpose, skill-sharing, and camaraderie that comes with it. Plus, with replicators making preparation and cleanup trivial, there’s a lot less labor associated with food service.

Lastly, consider that post-scarcity dining establishments that would have no tolerance for rude customers. If someone went full Karen on a volunteer, they’d be banned in a hot second. The social dynamics of such an arrangement would entirely favor the staff: if there are no “paying customers” then there’s no entitlement to go with it.

I don’t find it all that difficult to envision a set of social incentives that would keep restaurants alive.

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10 points

Fuck it. Throw the whole table into the reclaimator and replicate new clean ones.

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Picard was also incorrect by omission that there was no money. United Earth on its own had rid itself of a monetary system, but has to barter goods/services with other systems.

As for total automation of “menial services”… I’m not sure how you get around that without the use of a semi-sentient intermediary. Plus maintaining those systems, which would fall under the purview of the most important man in all of Starfleet history.

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Chief Miles O’Brian

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As for total automation of “menial services”… I’m not sure how you get around that without the use of a semi-sentient intermediary. Plus maintaining those systems, which would fall under the purview of the most important man in all of Starfleet history.

…why? why do they need to be sentient? we already have machines capable of doing just about everything we could want them to in terms of menial tasks. The biggest issue is a) they’re usually hyper-specific in terms of what tasks they do, and b) universally expensive as fuck. It’s just currently cheaper and more “efficient” to have a few humans doing most the tasks. but that’s increasingly becoming less so. (I’m thinking of the deep sea mining robots that while awful for the environment are… pretty impressive engineering… and also the commercial floor cleaning robots my grocery store is starting to use.)

As for repairing stuff… replicator technology is way, way under utilized. (seriously.) Like. Seriously. Why starships, space stations… buildings…can’t repair themselves I will never know. I mean, think about it. there’s already hundreds, probably thousands, of replicators on the D, just an example. in every crew quarters, office, medical or engineering bay… i think the only prominent room that doesn’t have one is actually the bridge… and there’s one off in Picard’s ready room not twenty steps away. You have to assume the notion has occured to every single starfleet engeering wonk every single time some EPS conduit blows out or worf’s face gets imprinted in a wall to prove how strong a villian really is. (lets be honest, Geordi probably has a collection of wall-panels framed with Worf’s face. I would.)

There’s absolutely no reason that replicators can’t be integrated into the structure as an array that could just automatically repair it. An array isn’t even strictly necessary if you use the transporters.

Considering that the Delta Flyer and the Runabouts had a replicator on it, too, and I’m guessing other shuttles, that would suggest anything too small to have one themselves… would easily be replicated in something like a shuttle bay with an industrial replication pad. Storage, repairs. etc, all happen just by recycling it and printing another.

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All salient points. My end of the argument lies squarely with the interaction portion of some services. An app/robot displays a message of “Thanks for your patronage” with all the heart of a trash can on wheels (No offense to R2). A medical scanner stating to a frightened child their ailments and odds of survival. That nonsense vs the relatively few people/androids/non-corporeal beings/etc. who are genuine in their task and appreciative of those around.

The self repairing station/ship idea was brought up in ENT s2e4 “Dead Stop” and never brought up again! While DISCO at least introduced the programmable matter concept, it still lacked the nuance of something that existed before Kirk’s time in the chair. Between that and the absence of the Conspiracy bug’s return, I’ve got the Krogan equivalent of a quad of nerdy sci-fi blue balls.

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The secret is that they could have replaced him with a machine long ago.

They decided instead to make him suffer.

And we’re the sickos here, watching and thereby incentivizing it - that universe could have been allowed to die out long ago, but we keep spinning it up in our own version of a holodeck to keep his suffering fresh in our minds.

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6 points

Joke’s on you, after a while, the CBT is now one of his fetishes.

The rest, not so much, but he’ll take what he can get.

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12 points

i am afraid were on an alternate Biff Tannen timeline

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Our current trajectory is not promising.

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8 points

Alright, who here has the damn sports almanac?

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5 points

Someone needs to send Captain Braxton to our temporal coordinates. He’s the only one good and crazy enough to fix this.

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8 points

Thoughts and prayers from the doctor

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I’m now just imagining the part in Cyberpunk 2077 where Jakie is dying in the cab, and V shouts “Doc! Ya gotta help him!” And then the Johnny Cab Robert Picardo is like “Damn it, V, I’m a taxi cab not a surgeon!”

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47 points

“if we’re lucky”

World War III was the last of Earth’s three world wars, lasting from approximately 2026 to 2053.

It resulted in the deaths of some 30% of the Human population, at least six hundred million people, and the extinction of six hundred thousand species of animals and plants. By the end, most of the major cities had been destroyed and there were few governments left.

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Except weirdly we know from canon that San Francisco, and Paris came out of it more or less unscathed, which seems unlikely.

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Maybe they didn’t.

Maybe they just restored the cities after the war.

Who knows? It’s the future, man.

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3 points

There are some countermeasures to ICBMs, but they’re not foolproof.

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6 points

Hold the phone. There were only something like 2,000,000,000 humans in the Star Trek Universe when WWII kicked off? Man they underestimated population growth.

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9 points

They had the Eugenics Wars in the 90s which led to a bunch of deaths.

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In the grand scheme of things… Is 600,000 species of flora and fauna a big number or a small number? IRL, I mean. Obviously in the fiction it’s a very small number.

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https://ourworldindata.org/how-many-species-are-there

TL.DR, there are ~2 million known species of animals. There are probably more of plants, and apparently nobody cares about fungus or other kingdoms of life. So, it’s a big dent, but the number looks even small in a worst-case scenario WW3.

I remember there being around 30,000 animal species threatened by extinction, but I have no idea when or from where I heard that.

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Oof! Only around 2 million? I had assumed it was in the billions range. Yeah, 600k is pretty significant. 😨

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17 points

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Is anyone else reminded of Bill Nye, by that particular Doctor? Other than the accent obviously.

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“The road to enlightenment is paved with authenticity, not imitation.” - Alen Cohen

We might still have to go through something akin to the Bell Riots, but if we could just skip over the WWIII bit and the Eugenics Wars while still reaching a “no money, socialist utopia”, then I think I can live with it.

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2 points

Sisko is still my favorite ST captain.

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8 points

When Sisko finally embraced the Hawk inside him, i knew shit was about to hit the fan. And hell, they didn’t disappoint.

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How to get earth into a post-scarcity world?

to start we almost 100% have to all be in alignment for the most part so that means a one world government for and by the people which cannot be upended by bad actors.

How to get people to work together you might ask?

I think it is through a system like this consensus engine where people can find common ground in their discussion.

from that link, "Define goals and work towards them.
The system can be used to lay out a plan. This plan can be made by those in a certain group or community. The group can explain their reasons for doing making the plan. The goal itself and methods of achieving it can be decided on by the users. Detailed lists of steps including sub-steps as far down as needed, coupled with potential ways for derailment of plan, and ways to deal with those possibilities are made and voted on. Input can be gathered from everyone or only the town/club/group hosting the idea and can result in a robust and long lasting plan set into action. "

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A piece of that is managing systems instead of people, which means an absolute separation of church and state.

Marry who you want. Age of legal consent means body autonomy. And so on.

Freedom of and from religion at the same time, no exceptions.

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That’s not really all that far fetched. ☹️

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