What kind of moron in the 24th century would willingly join Starfleet?

>>80457392

But there's also a 1 in a billion chance you become a hero.

>>80457392
Only if you wear a red shirt

>>80457392
>It is a death sentence.

So is life.

>>80459238
Damn

>willingly

they're socialist in space you really believe their happy cadet propaganda?

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>>80457392
what kind of moron during ww2 would join the airforce? It is a death sentence...........................................
also kys

>>80457392
The same retards that would actually bring their wives and children aboard a death trap for a multiple-year mission.

Kirk woulda had none of that.

>>80459414

>implying you had a choice

>>80459451
wow it's almost like thats the point of my post!

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>>80459238
Wow.

Have some gold, kind sir!

>>80459414

What is the fucking draft, you ignorant shit.

The Enterprise is a flagship and frontier exploration ship with the goal of making First Contact and seeking the unknown.

Deep Space 9 is a captured space station in a conflict zone that soon becomes the flashpoint for a quadrant-wide war.

Voyager gets sent to the other side of the Galaxy.

These are all exceptions. The typical Starfleet ship has a much easier time.

>>80459238
>came to post star trek fan fiction
>leave this thread woke

god damn

>>80459527
>>80459489
man /tv/ is the most unintelligent board

>>80457392
"We don't do capitalism anymore!"
(struggles to keep up with the Klingons in a war instead of popping out a new capital ship every week like the US did in WWII.)

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>>80457392
>Not wanting to explore space and blodly go where no human has gone before

Stay classy.

>>80457392
>live life on perfect utopia that is earth
>or go out have some fun, maybe even fuck a klingon, at starfleet

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>>80459238
d33p

>>80459666
you don't fool me satan, i know your tricks

>>80459600

Maybe if you'd actually written a coherent post, instead of being 'LEL SARCASM HOW WITTY' (which you failed at, by the way) people might have understood your point.

>>80457392

The never show the rest of Earth and normal people because it is a giant work camp. Everyone is enslaved to serve the Federation, while Starfleet live in their own bubble. Literally Communism.

>>80459646
they actually do have a free market, what they don't have is money.

They have computers to figure out supply and demand. If a restaurant is popular they have an easier time finding people to help them, they expand, similarly if a restaurant is unpopular they shrink 'employees' go do other things as they're not needed. Think of it like crowdfunding only instead of getting money they get permission to do whatever they like, from building their own spaceship to investigate the borg like 7of9's civilian family, to creating a Klingon restaurant in San Francisco to making authentic French wine like Picard's family.

Also their society is near post scarcity, but they do have resource limitations and time constraints for say, building ships or space stations.

ST never really goes over the details of civilian life and how, for example, Sisko's son becomes a 'best selling' author in a Federation without money. But we can assume everything is a lot like it is now in the western world but they exchange goods and services for likes online or something instead of with any measurable currency.

>>80459985
If it's post-scarcity, let the arms race begin. They, being free, should be able to out-strip the Klingons and Romulans combined in production.

The Borg are still out there, and should be met with 500 super dreadnaughts and a hundred war space stations. What in god's name is the Federation's problem?

Have they no terrified voters who wonder at the woeful inadequacy of Starfleet in defending against threats to Earth? They're averaging one existential threat every 5 years or so.

>>80459985
think they mean "best selling" as most readers and not most buyers

What else are you supposed to do with yourself? They've solved world hunger and have replicators for anything else they might need or want.

>>80459238
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>>80459238

>>80460466
We've already solved world hunger. The only hungry nations are war zones and failed or massively corrupt states where the local warlords siphon off aid to re-sell it to line their own pockets, or deliberately block it to starve out disfavored factions.

In countries not in that mode, obesity is the problem, not starvation.

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>>80459238
christ

>>80460704
Reminder that Worf murdered this guy.

Reminder that is was Crusher's fault and she didn't even feel bad about it.

>>80459489
But then your point is wrong. Everyone in Starfleet is a volunteer. In fact we're shown repeatedly how hard it is to even join.

It's simple, people are bored.

When you live in a post scarcity economy, rsigning up for a life threatening trip to the stars is probably the only way to get a thrill because everything else is just too safe

>>80459985
>get permission to do whatever they like
>free market

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>>80459238
Jesus

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>>80457392
Apparently only morons join it because they have meetings with all their officers next to open windows with no security. Good thing khan didnt just fire a missile in or kamikaze the ship.

>>80457392
>be me
>bored with living in utopia
>sign up for star fleet
>get told to scrub plasma tubes
>So much better than sipping tea in those cute little french cafes that they show all the time.

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>>80459238

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>>80459238

>join starfleet
>years of hard work and service
>pay is $0.00 an hour for life
>most likely death at the hands of any number of the hostile or unknown aliens out there or even court martial if you fuck up somewhere which means life at some shitty starfleet penal "settlement" doing even more slave labour than you were before

Totally not worth it

>>80457392
I wanna fug aliems

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>>80459238

>>80463054
dis.

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>>80459238
Go to bed Tyson

>>80459985
Assets like housing also would still be scarce, even with outer space colonies.

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>>80460656
>Mfw we live in a time where China's GDP is getting so high they are starting to outsource the outsourcing work we send them
Eventually literally everything will be made in Africa because every where else will have worked wages be toon high from outsourcing.

It's like trickle down economy only on a global scale.

>>80459238

Huh.

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>>80459238
holy.... I want more....

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>>80459238
whaaaat

>>80460633
does she have lynks disease?

>>80460633
I would cup my balls in her left hand and fonder her titties.

Because human society developed to a point where it provided for all the basic needs of humanity and left people to do the rest themselves.

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>>80460656

Worldwide food production was once measured at 10,000 calories per capita daily, but this includes grains that end up being used to feed livestock. I would check for the exact reference but I'm depressed after reading:

>>80459238