Can we please stop making Batman into Chuck Norris with a cape and cowl? Listen, I love Batman as much as anybody, but no, he can not beat Superman. That’s just stupid. Batman doesn’t have any strengths that Lex Luthor doesn’t have, and Luthor isn’t able to beat Superman, and he is far more motivated to do so than…

Except that the “real Batman” did just that. The cartoon was based on a Justice League comic. The only thing that actually bothers me is that Batman decided to write all that down. I’ve memorized many of my friends’ weaknesses (in case they ever go rogue), and I keep it all in my head.

Nathan Fillion as the voice of Hal Jordan had a point: Batman’s intellect may have enabled him to defeat any of the others, “But letting someone steal them was pretty damn dumb.” Batman is the worst superhero because he was stupid enough to nearly get all his friends killed with his bad security. He has contingency…

It’s a show on a premium network so its audience did eventually hit a natural limit; not everyone is willing to pay extra just to watch one show.

I would assume the rank itself is the status reward, since money is no longer something you can accumulate within the Federation. Rank might also bring special privileges, like privileged access to the stuff that is rare (although one wonders how they kept getting that illegal Romulan Ale).

How many people who can financially sit around and do nothing actually choose to though? All the time in the real world, as soon as someone has enough money to no longer be a wage slave, they start opening up their own small businesses and the like in the areas that interest them.

You also weren’t raised in an egalitarian, post scarcity, post alien contact society. Star Trek isn’t near future so it’s rather hard to judge human behavior from a completely different reference point. Pull someone out of feudal England and tell them people don’t need Lords and that a peaceful democracy is possible.

There are certain things, like latinum, that couldn’t be replicated, which is why it was so valuable for trading. Also, as the shows went on, they gradually limited the effectiveness of the replicators, to the point where replicated stuff often wasn’t seen as being as good. For instance, you could replicate Klingon…

Except that supposed 0.1% will continue do so otherwise, while the rest are given incentive to add to their gains...

It would not be communist at all because there does not appear to be any centralized control of resources.

Wouldn’t the number of scientific and technological discoveries made by aristocratic hobbyists in the 1800's indicate that progress would go on?

What if my talent is “doing nothing” and that’s what I wish for my future? I would rather spend the rest of my life focusing on pure hedonism than working if there are no incentives in such world

Holodeck porn would deny the entire society access to quite a lot of people’s ambitions and contributions, I would think, just as gambling, drug addiction, and lack of access to education denies us a dozen Einsteins a century.

Careful... someone might peg you as a Bernie Sanders supporter...

But Palpatine promised to make the Empire great again...

pulls pin, walks away...

It's actually quite intricate. It's uninformed voters like you is how we ended up with President Palpatine!

I think the problem solves itself. We lose a few profit-driven inverters but gain access to a horde of geniuses who are free to invent becasuse they’re driven by exploration and passion and not bound by financial limitations.

Can someone explain to me why we hate the new Film Universe so much? I mean, I grew up on Star Trek - many family dinners revolved around a little tv in the kitchen with TNG on. I would catch every episode of TOS I could on TV. I watched Voyager as it aired with my brother. We owned bootleg copies of all the films.…

I’m not worried about continuity issues should the series be set in the prime universe. Even though there hasn’t been a prime universe Trek series in a long time, there have been dozens of Trek novels and Star Trek Online (in separate continuities) that have continued the storyline in fascinating and original ways…