What was "The Burn" and what caused it?

Certainly so. It's just a classic "Skinner box" type society, using rewards to facilitate socially building behavior to allow for access.

 

If members of a society choose to better themselves and/or others, that's a good thing.

If people are judged, and therefore required, to do so, watch the hell out. That smacks of dictatorship. (Then again, that's exactly what China is, so I guess there's no surprise there.)

People should better others because they want to, not because they're being forced to by the State.

 

I think if people feel they have needs provided for then they might do it because they want to.

 

^ Unless those needs are withheld for failure to comply.

 

The Burn brought it back

 

F'ing inflation.

 

We've never been shown what happens if someone decides to be a slacker. However, one of the founding members of the Fed already has been shown to be dictatorial. Vulcan. Tuvok goes a bit crazy over a girl, and rather than get proper counseling he's sent to have all emotion eradicated. Sybok wants to embrace emotion, and is made an outcast. If the Fed tolerates this...

 

Yeah we did, in Picard. Raffi was high achieving, then left Starfleet and set up a nice little house, in a nice little area, the fuck away from everyone where she can just smoke space weed every day.

 

Fair enough, I forgot about her.

 

Burn is usually associated with inflammation

 

IDIC as it were.

 

Those puns only work in English. Or is it Federation standard? But they don't work in Klingon. And the Fed wonders why the Klingons won't join. ChugDah hegh! Volcha va!

 

Is there a Klingon translation for Preparation-H? Maybe a galactic sized suppository is all they need.

 

Ghobe'!

 

It came up in my YT recommended vids today!

 

"Putting on a little weight, are we?"



Poor Sulu. The butt of jokes in SNL Star Trek sketches since 1975.

 

Not since I found that creme from Bangkok!

 

Bangkok. Oriental city.
But the city don't know what the city is getting.
The créme de la créme of the chess world
In a show with everything but Yul Brynner...

 

But it's the "future" so her trailer probably has anti gravs and sublight engines under it.

same thing in The Orville. Money has been replaced by replicators and reputation

 

They do... The Daspu’ class battlecruiser, also known as “The Dildo of Kahless”.