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In each of those arcs, courageous officers fight against corrupt superiors as they would against external enemies. But why should they have to? Why don’t the Articles separate the powers of government? No one thought of any of this. And considering the revenues involved, someone should have. That they never did, shows they subscribed to, and promoted, a utopian view of government. The government always does right. Or if it does wrong, a courageous officer need only reach “the right people” to set it right.

In each of those arcs, courageous officers fight against corrupt superiors as they would against external enemies. But why should they have to? Why don’t the Articles separate the powers of government? No one thought of any of this. And considering the revenues involved, someone should have. That they never did, shows they subscribed to, and promoted, a utopian view of government. The government always does right. Or if it does wrong, a courageous officer need only reach “the right people” to set it right.

The producers would have done better to expand the ''Insurrection'' story. ''Insurrection'' played in the last season of ''Deep Space Nine''. That project exposed festering corruption and elitism that should have infuriated the people. Its ending did ''not'' satisfy. Captain Picard, or even Commander Data, could and maybe ''should'' have started an open, large-scale rebellion. But of course ''Star Trek'' still had the baggage of Gene Roddenberry’s utopian ethos. Neither he nor his successors could ever imagine a “War Between the Planets.” Much less could they imagine good coming out of such a conflict. (At least, they did not imagine this in the “regular” universe. In Jerome Bixby’s “Mirror, Mirror” universe, such a rebellion did take place.)

The producers would have done better to expand the ''Insurrection'' story. ''Insurrection'' played in the last season of ''Deep Space Nine''. That project exposed festering corruption and elitism that should have infuriated the people. Its ending did ''not'' satisfy. Captain Picard, or even Commander Data, could and maybe ''should'' have started an open, large-scale rebellion. But of course ''Star Trek'' still had the baggage of Gene Roddenberry’s [[utopia]]n ethos. Neither he nor his successors could ever imagine a “War Between the Planets.” Much less could they imagine good coming out of such a conflict. (At least, they did not imagine this in the “regular” [[universe]]. In Jerome Bixby’s “Mirror, Mirror” universe, such a rebellion did take place.)

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