The Federation is helping a planet transition out of capitalism to post-scarcity, and it’s basically a huge celebration.

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    It checks out that Rick Berman also hated children and used “childish” and “children” to speak down to people he didn’t like. The fact that the Enterprise-D had children on board, including schools and such for them, enraged him because his war fixation didn’t have room for that.

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      One of the good plots from DS9 was Keiko O’Brien fighting against then-Vedek Winn to keep reactionary religion from fucking up science education.

      We barely got any Keiko after that though, especially in her role as a teacher. Not grim dark adults in the room enough for Berman.

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        We barely got any Keiko after that though, especially in her role as a teacher. Not grim dark adults in the room enough for Berman.

        Agreed, and I think that was a direct consequence of Berman’s hatred for children in general and “Adult In The Room” self-identification.