You know what I'd watch?
Star Trek: Dregs.
The Earthlings on Star Trek are always depicted as living in a perfect Communist society. A Marxist wet dream, a world free from want, with every basic need and entertainment automated or synthesized, without prejudice, on demand. And I kind of have to wonder why no one stops for a second to consider the kind of monsters a society like that would raise.
Not every member of every race can be an overachiever on Star Fleet's honor roll, right? For every Wesley Crusher, there have to be hundreds of spoiled brats convinced anything they can't press a button for or have sparkle to life in a replicator atom by atom isn't worth having. The world is already filled with basement trolls living off of their family's resources. Imagine their population explosion in a world where the interplanetary state is the one doing your laundry and paying the DSL bill. And it won't even ask you to fill out a job application at Denny's every four months.
And what about the ones with misdirected curiousity, the kind of people who aren't motivated to achieve in a framework where the lazy are rewarded on equal terms with the extraordinary, but still need their busywork? What could their own epic boredom drive them to do?
And the perverts. Don't try to tell me there aren't any perverts. I wanna see how the guy stockpiling holographic photos of Klingon shoes gets through the day, hogging the holodeck and running the STOMPED BY THE WARRIOR GODDESS program eighteen times in a row.
Someone ought to make a show.
