Hats off, from a Marxist.

Grade-school level history: I didn’t need to ask which country because all of the possible countries were puppet states of a single other country…

Because a 100% of communist countries became dictatorships […]

There are a total of 0 communist countries throughout history. Your lack of very basic knowledge is starting to make me cringe.

I’m happy now somewhere in the middle in this terrible, terrible capitalism.

That’s irrelevant. If you’re happy while I’m driving a nail through your eyes, does that make driving a nail through someone’s eyes a good thing? The fact that you are privileged doesn’t make a difference.

Oh, and I’m free to leave anytime I want

No, you’re not. Your statement is so completely uneducated, I couldn’t even guess where to begin dismantling it.

You mean the impressions of having lived in a dictatorship which discarded the idea of progressing towards communism? How is that relevant?

Yes, people with lesser minds do tend to feel that way.

The world is going to shit, civilization is going to shit, our scientific progress seems to be constantly hampered, and quite a bit of my expectation that we might get a significative push towards communism this decade has vanished. So yeah, I’m great.

This reads like a sponsored ad.

What are you on about, Google is complete shit.

DuckDuckGo is not good. It’s only marginally less pathetic than Google, but that has to do for the time being.

“Hurr durr, both of these things are the same even though they’re clearly different”.

Nah, A.I. can provide benefits in literally all areas of knowledge. I’m hopeful that one day humanity itself will be fully phased out in favor of artificial life.

You do understand that “communism” comes from the root “communal”, meaning belonging to a commune, i.e. a group of people sharing a social scope, right?

That’s a horrible name for multiple reasons, least among which that it sounds like “stinky-pedia” in portuguese.

That’s just true of 90% of jobs in a capitalist society.

Very much so, yes. That’s what turned me off of Picard, for instance (and the whole “Earth is back to being a shithole after a single android attack” thing).
The very obvious subtext of every good Star Trek episode and plot is that just talking things through is a good way to solve most problems. Newer writers don’t seem to have gotten the memo, and instead try to cram as much generic hollywood garbage as they can into the series.

I was about to make a joke about Troi and the expected qualities of a cake, but I’ll leave it at that.

No, no, the flag is red, not the herrings.

I use Arch Linux, by the way

Watch Star Trek TNG and you’ll instantly get it. The original series was getting a bit dated by the 90s, but TNG is still as fresh as you can get, talking about issues we’re still dealing with - It’s timeless. Not to mention it has, IMO, the best and most synergistic crew of the whole franchise.

no other franchise I know of that dominates the federation as much as Star Trek does.

You answered your own question, brother.

But not during the movies.