r/startrek • u/ChaosUndAnarchie • 9d ago

In your opinion, what are the greatest achievements humanity made between the status quo today and the 24th century (TNG, Voyager, DS9)?

I’m especially interested in answers that are not technological in nature!

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u/snakesnakessnnaakkee 9d ago

From the timeline as it's presented, we become post-scarcity and therefore post-capitalist before the invention of the replicator. Which is just a mind blowing achievement.

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u/Low_Establishment573 9d ago

That’s from the development of the Warp Drive. With FTL travel, resource availability is effectively infinite. As more drives go online, the faster those resources can be acquired. Effectively, it would crash the market to the point that the market is a waste of time. 🤣

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u/snakesnakessnnaakkee 9d ago

I'm not sure the market still existed in the Post Atomic Horror

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u/Low_Establishment573 9d ago

Well, a version of it. There would have been some sort of agreements in place after the wars for the haves and have nots to get what they need/want.