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A Star Trek about civilians would have to be done extremely carefully to not ruin everything with gold pressed latinum.
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Absolutely. Star Trek writers are in no way immune to capitalist realism themselves, especially when they're beholden to studio execs and budgets.
I didn't make it more than a few episodes into Picard before giving up in disgust, and this only validates my choice there. It's not just Picard though. Strange New Worlds is generally quite good, but the colony shown in the most recent episode was explicitly modeled on a mid 20th century American small town, a place Federation citizens should know better than to emulate.
Are there any novels or fanfics you'd recommend that do an actual good job of portraying a properly post scarcity Federation culture?
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