Concerns About Political Neutrality in the Development Team.

[Auro_Seldaris]

So everyone is going to conveniently forget about Section 31 and how space communism has to be brutal owards various factions for the federation to exist?

First, it's space socialism, not space communism. The Federation is made of a wide variety of member worlds, each with their own societies and belief systems, and the Federation never forces anyone to all "live the exact same way". It's more about the benefit for the collective society, than about enforcing some belief that everyone must live the EXACT same way. If they did they would force Vulcans to feel emotions, or lobotomize Betazeds so they no longer have telepathic powers.

Second, I hate the very idea of Section 31. It was edgy. Trek was never supposed to be a "false utopia" or a "Secret dystopia". The idealism was supposed to win out. The Federation/Starfleet's ideals were always supposed to come out on top over the people that scheme and are duplicitous, like the Romulans or Cardassians. (If you buy into the very likely theory that the basic idea of Deep Space 9 was cribbed from a spec treatment for Babylon 5 that Stracynzski had shopped to Paramount a few years earlier, then Section 31 only exists becuase it's a parallel version of the Psi Corps in Babylon 5 - black ops schemers who think they're more important than they actually are)

Also, people like Luther Sloan can't be taken at face value. He's just as self-obsessed and self-serving as Gul Dukat or Gowron, only he hides behind a "someone has to get their hands dirty" justification, whereas Bashir's whole point is, "No, no you DON'T have to betray your ideals to get things done."

The "Brutality" is self-serving nonsense, like the schemers in Star Trek VI who want to keep the war with the Klingons going for their own purposes, or the Starfleet Admiral in Insurrection who's scheming behind Starfleet's back because he personally sees stealing the healing particles from the Baku as being a necessary advantage for the Dominion War.

I'm not even going to get into Discovery or "Kurtzman Trek", like the Section 31 movie. That's just edgy "bad guys are cool" stuff like Suicide Squad. I don't even consider Kurtzman Trek to be real Trek.

Sorry bout the off-topic but i just have to correct this stance as a lifelong Trek fan.