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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Reverend: [QB] That is one of the biggest flaws of the Star Trek universe is that it's been made up as it went along, so there's little or no connective tissue and next to no idea how the societies actually work, at least (ironically) from a human standpoint. No money, war, poverty or disease and a "more evolved sensibility" sounds all well and good, but they've never really gotten into how it would actually work. I think the DS9 writers were the only ones to even take a stab at it and even they struggled with the concept. B5 is simple in that thing work more or less how they do now. You want to go to Mars? You have to buy a ticket. You need money? Get a job. You want to travel through a jumpgate? You have to pay a toll. Dock at a station? Docking fees, customs and you'll probably have to rent a room. Visit another world? You'll need a visa. Want to survey a new planet? You'll have to buy the jumpgate codes from the corporation that owns them. On top of that, JMS has sketched things out to such a point that you can drop a character at any point in the timeline for a thousand years in either direction and you have a good idea as to what's going on. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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