We'll get there one day

Just to be clear star trek also had a nuclear war

I mean, the Federation was only founded after a world war decimated the human population. And I also think, looking at our world, that we are more likely to be the mirror dimension anyway.

I dream of Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism

Maybe when we live in a post singularity society where everything we want can be printed for free.

I want this so bad... Fuck capitalism and greed

I think the whole lack of sustainable fusion thing may be a slightly larger factor than capitalism.

I also noticed that religion was absent from most of the star trek stories, and usually, if at all, was associated with an underdeveloped culture, and they would most likely be warlike and a threat.

Imagine if the Enterprise was constructed by the lowest bidding government contractor.

Also: Why aren't we at least the Farenghi?

I like to think, that Star Trek and Fallout play in the same universe/timeline

To blame capitalism for the lack of a Star Trek future is to fundamentally misunderstand why capitalism is the way it is.

Capitalism isn't some evil calamity that fell from the sky. Human beings created it. No matter what system you make, we will inevitably corrupt it so long as selfishness and greed are hardwired into our primate brains. Communism, socialism, capitalism, whatever. They all need hard rules to work because humans will turn any system into a way to enrich themselves, and given time, they will even erode the rules to do it.

For every extraordinary bit of technology or otherworldly space entity or reality shattering cosmic event to ever show up in Star Trek, the single most unbelievable thing about it is the notion that the human race could ever, collectively, and permanently forego their selfish instincts. Its a society that only works if the human race changes itself on a fundamental, evolutionary level, and does so in unison. Because as long as any human feels a desire for more than they have, or the desire to protect what they do have, we'll never achieve that.

This subject always makes me wonder if what happened to the sonic washing machine would happen to the replicator, as soon as someone invents it.

Would Capitalism allow the instrument of it's eventual demise to exist?

Touche, that is indeed a socialist utopia!

It does work. Way more than any communist or socialist ideals