Mom's Basement

[C-Mag]

Hell yup.

Did anyone else find it a little disheartening to find out that the Federation relied, at least partly, on mining operations with criminal ties? Is nothing sacred?

I mean, the Federation building legit war ships instead of (overwhelmingly armed) "exploration vessels" is one thing... but organized crime?

Well, the Federation was a bunch of commies after Kirk was gone.

[Hanarchy Montanarchy]

Apparently, even in our imaginary, post-scarcity, socialist utopias you still get the mine bosses busting strikes by employing the local crime syndicate.

I blame the Federation abandoning the latinum standard.

[C-Mag]

Apparently, even in our imaginary, post-scarcity, socialist utopias you still get the mine bosses busting strikes by employing the local crime syndicate.

I blame the Federation abandoning the latinum standard.

A lot of conspiracies in ST. DS9 probably had the most

[Speaker to Animals]

Section 31 was like their NKVD.

[C-Mag]

Section 31 was like their NKVD.

But they didn't try to breed Ape - Human Soldiers like the Soviets.
Which for weird science conspiracies that happened is pretty damn wild.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Section 31 was like their NKVD.

But they didn't try to breed Ape - Human Soldiers like the Soviets.
Which for weird science conspiracies that happened is pretty damn wild.

[Speaker to Animals]

Section 31 was like their NKVD.

But they didn't try to breed Ape - Human Soldiers like the Soviets.
Which for weird science conspiracies that happened is pretty damn wild.

The Soviets allegedly tried to produce an army of hybrid ape-humans.

[SuburbanFarmer]

As Rogan would say... JEEZUS CHRISTTT!!!!!!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanzee

In the 1980s, there were reports on an experiment in human–chimpanzee crossbreeding conducted in the People's Republic of China in 1967, and on the planned resumption of such experiments. In 1981, Ji Yongxiang, head of a hospital in Shengyang, was reported as claiming to have been part of a 1967 experiment in Shengyang in which a chimpanzee female had been impregnated with human sperm. According to this account, the experiment came to nothing because it was cut short by the Cultural Revolution, with the responsible scientists sent off to farm labour and the pregnant chimpanzee dying from neglect. According to Timothy McNulty of Chicago Tribune, the report was based on an article in the Wenhui Bao paper of Shanghai. Li Guong of the genetics research bureau at the Chinese Academy of Sciences was cited as confirming both the existence of the experiment prior to the Cultural Revolution and the plans to resume testing.

[Speaker to Animals]

It's almost like, when a society turns its back on the objective basis for morality, wicked shit ensues..

[SuburbanFarmer]

It's almost like, when a society turns its back on the objective basis for morality, wicked shit ensues..

So, the Cultural Revolution was a return to 'objective morality' then?

moron.