[really, really Infinities] strange things are afoot

[M Fnord]

A lot of people of Earth tend to dismiss the Convention as malcontents, bitterly clinging to fake futures on the edge of the system while all the real work - that is, the work undertaken by the Space Powers - is done in cislunar and to a smaller extent Mars. The line many are fond of is "the Fen are trying to make the world like Star Trek." There's some truth to that. Certainly the technological utopia is something we strive for, and out of all the myriad memes and concepts we've taken from a hundred-odd years of science fiction the Federation's system of government best fits what we're trying to build out here. But we're not trying to make the world like Star Trek. If anything, the people of Earth are trying, and we're doing our level best to stop them.

How's that? Well, this is a bit arcane for non-Fen but bear with me. The Star Trek series happens in the 23rd and 24th centuries, everybody knows that. What most people tend to forget, unless they're serious Star Trek fans, is that the 21st century of that timeline was not a pleasant place. There were wars, inequality, injustice by the bucketload, finally culminating in a War to End Everything that very nearly did the trick. They never give hard numbers in the shows, but it's clear a significant percentage of the human race dies between the years 2000 and 2100.

If you look at Earth, you see wars, inequality and injustice by the bucketload. We wish to stop this process before it spirals out of control into a final war, to leapfrog the human misery and find a new path. Maybe we can't... but we will continue to try.

~ Jedi Master Alyssa Houten (2039)

Mr. Fnord interdimensional man of mystery

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