Eugenics war (world war 3)

[Starborn Dragon]

Maybe the statement was not about the Nazi ideology, but the efficiency of being run by a government and the government structure as taken out of Nazi ideology.

 

[Nerys Myk]

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So, not really a matter of "efficency" as we mean it, but to stop their wars amoung themselves he gave them a unifiying enemy but it went too far.

Was it Gill who made the Zeons an enemy or was it Melakon?

 

[Anwar]

It was Melakon, but it fits that a lot of the "efficiency" came from creating a scapegoat and using them to hide their own problems.

 

[T'Girl]

it's difficult to see in-universe how John Gill could have gotten it so wrong

Just because Gill is a accredited published professor, teaching at the prestigious Starfleet Academy, doesn't mean he has the slightest idea concerning what he's talking about.

Welcome to academia.

 

[Anwar]

He probably didn't get it wrong, he might've been a Neo-Nazi all along who waited to try out his ideas on a defenseless world.

In fact, it wouldn't surprise me if someone at Starfleet Command read over the guy's papers and realized "Whoa, we better have someone check up on this nut!" and sent Enterprise to investigate.

 

[T'Girl]

he might've been a Neo-Nazi

I suspect that this is big piece of the reason he choose a National Socialist style government.