I think the one thing that has made a united Earth difficult is a fear of the erosion of cultural and national identity. In Star trek it was a delicate balance between uniting nations of earth and maintaining a rich and culturally diverse population.

I always figured United Earth was a federation of nations within the United Federation of Planets. Presumably with some of those nations being federations themselves. So many levels of federations!

One of the biggest factors not mentioned is the fact after warp drive became common there was a mass exodus of people. This is shown in the show all the time with lost colonys. The option to just leave is one many would take. This probably thinned out a lot of problematic groups. Thus making change a lot easier. The colonization of just the home system would greatly thin numbers. The power to just leave, and start over somewhere unsettled, is something we haven't had since colonization time.

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My dad said that Dr. McCoy was a descendant of the original Hatfields and McCoys. As someone who is from that area, that is cool.

I was perplexed when I was early in the fandom that there isn't a United Sol government made up by different planetary bodies with the hierarchy of what orbits which planet. But after understanding how early first contact was compared to colonization of Sol, it makes sense since the need for say Mars or other planets and moons to be independent is less necessary to an Expanse like scenario.

Regarding population change and world governments, a huge consideration here too is that beyond the loss of 30% of the world population during World War III and afterward ("Strange New Worlds") in major cities (First Contact), there was also a *massive* push for colonization and resettlement, especially in the 22nd century ("Up The Long Ladder"). This would probably put all of Earth in a similar position as certain European countries like Ireland, where famine and emigration in the 19th and 20th centuries resulted in a modern population that is about 3 million lower than its peak in the 1840s. This would likely have two different effects on Earth itself. First, it could reinforce some conservative, traditional perspectives especially for many of those that remained or moved back over time - Picard's father deciding to run an old family vineyard in France abandoned in WWII and Chekov being a proud Russian versus Picard's pioneering ancestors settling Mars (Generations), or radical "Neo-Transcendentalists" ("Up The Long Ladder") or supporters of genetic engineering ("The Masterpiece Society") leaving Earth to build new colonies in other star systems. (This might even be reflected in maintaining racial distinctions up to the 24th century, although I'd prefer to assume that racism isn't a byproduct of this type of sorting in the Star Trek universe.) Second, and most importantly, is that the losses in the 21st century and the subsequent "brain drain" of dynamic, technically skilled people in the 22nd century would leave Earth with far less labor capacity and human resources. (See the Martian Congressional Republic after the ring gates are discovered in The Expanse, for instance.) Considering this, it may just have been out of necessity that Earth governments streamlined and consolidated many of their functions into a centralized world government! The post-scarcity economy, technological advancements after First Contact, and dearth of labor overlapping with a pressing need to repair the planet after thousands of years of damage from human war and urbanization might even mean that their world government wouldn't even have the same structure or functions as nation-states have today. (What could tax policy in the Federation look like if you don't buy anything and don't have an income, for example?) In addition, note that the only times we've ever seen actual bustling "modern" cities in Star Trek in operation aside from San Francisco have really just been with London (Star Trek Into Darkness), Boston ("Rememberance"), and to a lesser extent Paris ("We'll Always Have Paris", "Rememberance"). Even with those representations though, they *still* don't feel dramatically more occupied than our versions of those cities. (The only exceptions are Paris from "Will You Take My Hand", which felt like someone dropped the Eiffel Tower onto Coruscant, and Okinawa/The Daystrom Institute in "Rememberance" with all of the weird floating structures.) And, because Chateau Picard still exists in the same form as it did centuries before, Raffi can camp out in a trailer near Vasquez Rocks, and Starfleet captains all seem to have cabins in the woods on Earth (Generations, "Crisis Point 2: Paradoxus", "Strange New Worlds"), the franchise also suggests that the countryside hasn't been radically urbanized to accommodate a growing population that is billions higher than the population today (save for Mohave as seen in matte painting in "The Cage"/"The Menagerie"). Anyway, good video, and good work!

You consistently go into more depth than I expect and even more depth than I imagined possible. Thanks! (Seeing the clip of Avasarala made me wonder whether you'd do a video on some of sci fi's best fashions.)

Love this one! I'm writing a Sci-Fi graphic novel and in it, people on Mars, have their own language. At least 3 different dialects. Good thing that Star Trek has Universal Translation tech otherwise they would need protocol droids like in Star Wars.

We want to be unified just as long as we get everything we want. If we can't get what we want then we try to become separate.

I think it's possible that some corporate entity becomes the de-facto united Earth "government," while the existing governments still exist and function in-name. Basically the way the US government is almost entirely bought and owned by corporate donors, just on a global scale. Here's hoping for the Star Trek version though, as always it's the best we can hope for!

I've said this before. I love how you analyse things from a very real perspective and not just take things at face value. It takes a keen and curious mind. You are very thought-provoking, funny and always fresh. Your videos are always great... but in saying that, any video can be improved by the presence of Samuel L. Jackson.

These videos are so much fun. My dad loves Star Trek, so you're giving me a lot to talk about with him.

This video - like mentioned in another comment - felt like a 5, 6 minute analysis. Time passes really fast when listening to your content. These days its my main distraction from our cynical f*** up world(order). Best escape from reality atm and really appreciated ;)

My fan theory is that UESPA and the other pre Federation Space Forces became different commands in the Federation Starfleet and probably didn't have a fully unified Fleet until the 2240s wich would explain some things

One of the more interesting aspects of Stargate SG-1, which is for me the most cynical realistic scenario for a lot of space show tropes, is the idea that intergalactic space travel can belong to a specific nation. The timeline for SG-1 is frozen at the cusp of worldwide exposure and I would be interested in a spinoff show that examines the era after the truth about the Stargates are exposed. The nations of Earth do know about them and for a time Russia had it's own Stargate but the public doesn't know and given how close Earth has come to being attacked and conquered I can't imagine public opinion being positive. A few episodes have shown the future, which appears to be one of cooperation and prosperity, but nothing beats seeing events unfold in real time.

Ahhh .... Man your videos are always so awesome dude! They feel like they are about 5 minutes long, always packed with interesting information and topics!

Unfortunately it looks like we are going the Terran model. You will eat ze bugs!

10/10. 5-Star analysis. Keep up the stellar work. Can't wait for the next video

OrangeRiver, I got an idea for you to cover. Alien biology of The Coneheads.

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Thanks so much for the channel it’s great to see such forward thinking man as your self

I loved your PULP FICTION cut with the 6 timeless exploitives sure to survive as long as language does and possibility become a KLINGON favorite.Thanks for the the laugh Tyler!

Love the quality and time you put into your vids man. Your effort shows!

I wonder if they’re still trying to vote for the Speaker of the House in the 22nd century. 🤔

Just discovered you and getting trek lore along with your wit is great!

You have some of the best Star Trek content on KZfaq. Why is your channel this small? Surely the algorithm working against you.

Definitely one of my favorite channels. Great analysis!

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Many thanks for this insightful video! Really appreciate all the research you put into your videos, it really helps to contrast the sci-fi elements. Cheers!

Another great video! Great job!

Wonderful.

Another excellent analysis.👍

One of my assumptions based on the Star Trek timeline is that the "superman" uprising in the Eugenics War of the 1990s prevented 9/11 from happening. Politics in the world would've changed depending on whether a region was ruled by benevolent or power hungry engineered people. (I even imagined an alternate Terran Empire rising out of prolonged, oppressive rule by the supermen, until finally overthrown by their hardened subjects!) Think about the lasting lessons from that period: a growing reluctance to allow any small group of "rulers" into power, again. An episode of DS9 (possibly the one where Sisko became the activist Bell) implied economic upheavals led to WWIII. Seen in light of post Eugenic Wars, this could have been an outcome of different factions vying for power, while trying to divorce their agendas from the memory of the Eugenics Wars. I think you did yourself a disservice by not factoring in the brief conquest of part of Earth by the genetic supermen, & the fight to overthrow them. All demographics in the 21st Century onward would've been different from our history. Some nations devastated & still trying to rebuild; some alliances badly fractured; global economy possibly similar to post Covid. I think this may have fueled a drive toward more widespread democratization. WWIII could then have possibly been a last gasp by dictatorships & similar authoritarians.

Love this

Wow after all these years I never knew Laforge is from Mogadishu

Wow, great work

Excellent video! Well done

Professionally done as always.😎👍🏾

This might seem obvious but. Thanks to your consistent intro, I know your name, Tyler. Always happy to listen to you.

Love this video, thanks.

Picard was born in the UK. It's just the part of the UK he was born into, used to be known as France.

playing the New Horizons mod for Stellaris right now, this is hitting good since im early game pre-fed.

Great Video on Trek, Orange River.

Their are two reasons that Earth was able to unite and change Humanity forever; #1 was the development of replicator technology and #2 the dissolution of using monetary currency. Replicators removed the concept of need and leverage for need. The removal of money from society also removed and enhanced the need for biased political positions and stances.

Hey Tyler, Jim here. I am subscribed. You do a terrific job. Some of the best ST content I’ve seen (I am lifelong fan starting with TOS re-runs in the 1970’s). Keep up the great work!

Officially subscribed now! 🤠

One thing about the home countries and states of various characters just makes me believe harder in the theory I once saw someone say, and have adopted as my headcanon, that the universal translator removes accents, or transposes them into what we hear.

I absolutely LOVE your channel. That is all.

As usual, great video.🖖🏽

Definitely was not expecting Mace Windu in this episode.

i love that he included the Expanse

I don't think a united world government will happen at least not as long as people have a choice about it, even in the most optimistic of scenarios the drive for different groups to split off and do their own thing is too deeply ingrained into humanity, even in star trek there exist independent human colonies that are not part of the federation presumably for that very reason.

As always, well done. Live long and prosper. 🖖

🖖😎👍Very nicely well done and very well informatively executed and well explained on this subject matter and topic indeed👌...

Is it too optimistic? If you asked me in my 20’s, I would have said no. Fast forward 3 decades, and having watched 2020, I’m now going to say yes. The concept of some event “bringing humanity together” seems far fetched now. First contact would likely only drive humans further apart, not bring us together. We’d end up with a faction that’s pro-alien and another that’s anti-alien with dozens of others between those two ends of the spectrum. I don’t even think global thermonuclear war would do it, we’d just go back to fighting with sticks and stones.

I would like to hear your perspective on how rapidly the United Earth formed given that, in at least some parts of Earth, the Post Atomic Horror was still going on, complete with an authoritarian justice system in 2079. My head canon is that once the Post Atomic Horror arose, the Vulcans became anxious about the trajectory of a warp capable civilization descending into chaos and went "Captain Kirk" on things and and took a more active role in restoring and developing Earth's government. This might explain the later antipathy of humans to Vulcans in Enterprise. Of course, this all hinges around Gene Roddenberry's vision that a utopian Earth would only emerge once humanity had gone through many tribulations, a view that I see as becoming more stark over time. The vision of the trials seem to start with the short lived Eugenics War and then became more severe by the time Roddenberry wrote Encounter at Farpoint. I believe this tension around 23rd century utopia vs. 21st century dystopia is what has ultimately resulted with an accelerated timeline, where events like the SS Valiant reaching the galactic barrier in the 2060s are hard to reconcile - and that was of course established very early on. Anyway, that's a ramble! Bottom line, if you could give some of your own theories about this specific part of the history (assuming you haven't already covered it somewhere?) that would be great.

Just imagine Jules screaming at you to to cut the grass at 9:AM on Saturday morning while also screaming at you to enjoy the new episode of DS9 at 7:00 PM.

Well done as always, I have been meaning to ask. Where did you get that Starships plaque hanging up behind you?

I felt the existential dread in that pause before “let’s find out”.

Thank u for the hours of entertainment/knowledge u provide ….

It feels like we are closer to becoming the future of Warhammer 40K.

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If you haven't already, you should do a video on synthehol. I hear there is a real-life version called Alcosynth.

Seriously. Subscribe people. If you're watching every week or not. I love when they mention Canada in Trek...all 2 times 🤣. 🖖😁🤞🇨🇦

Very sorry about that. I had watched so many of these videos that I thought I had subscribed. Didn't realize that I wasn't. Fixed that. Interesting video as always. My Star Trek Online character happens to be from Australia, (I just have a fancy for Australia), and I most always enjoy a chance to learn about the world he lives in.

Earth won't ever be united until we have something, or someone, to unite against. As long as we're "alone" in the universe, we will remain tribal in nature. There's also the unfortunate ease at which humans with power become greedy and corrupted....

Parliamentry Republics also have Ministers and a President, for example Germany there the Presidant is largely Ceremonial and Serves as the the Figure Head of the Country while the different Ministers are Part of the Parliament and Government and organize different branches of the government. In the end the power still lies in the hand of the parliament

I wouldn't be surprised if interested in a UEDF began after the Dominion War purely for system defense

Not to say Discovery isn't canon or such but it's more than 900 years after Enterprise so it's possible that some changes have happened after the United Earth left the Federation of the 30th century

The direction of travel since 1945 has been pretty one way. A World Bank, the IMF, the WTO, international climate law, an ICC, universal human rights declaration as well as an explosion of regional trading blocs and/or customs unions. We also have an ISS and a supranational space agency in ESA.

Very hard to imagine a unified earth will ever exist. One can hope though...

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I absolutely love your channel. Keep up the amazing work.

"Let's find out"? Let's Get Started!!

As someone who teaches about geopolitics I have to say, very well done, your future history and analysis was sophisticated without being confusing.

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Kathryn Janeway is from Bloomington, Indiana. Hikaru Sulu is a Pacific Islander. Amanda Grayson (Spock’s mother)is from Colorado Springs. Benjamin Sisko is from New Orleans.

In my opinion, the likeliest outcome in the real world is a global version of the EU, where nations retain their individuality and culture, but work together on common projects and common standards.

a fan theory I heard is by TNG era the vast majority of the population live most if not all of their lives inside holodecks blissfully unaware. It would be an effective way of managing the population. As the maquis crisis demonstrated, you can't have federation citizens just doing whatever they want.

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Great analysis, Thanks! I am curious about how Earth eliminated money or how it altered its financial system as stated in Star Trek? How does commerce occur without a monetary system? Perhaps you already have a video on this.

United Earth probably had a parliamentary form of government before The Burn, thereafter presidentialism was adopted.

Getting Ashenvale vibes from this background music and I'm here for it.

Whether or not such a post scarcity society is an utopia or a dystopia depends on whether or not the UBI (Universal/Unconditional Basic Income) is a full or partial UBI and if it is rapidly titrated to inflation and to actual living costs in the various locales. We're pretty much at the state where we don't know if an UBI could be managed to be a full UBI and our politics seem to steer towards means tested, partial basic income with clawbacks that inhibit social mobility and discourages seeking employment, so at this time, our progress towards a post scarcity society is more likely to be a wealth gap, job starved dystopia as Earth was shown to be in the TV series "The Expanse" and as shown in Deep Space Nine's "Past Tense" episode. If we can't figure out how to manage UBI well, a dystopia is inevitable. There's basically currently a lot of ideologic active sabotage of any development of the policies needed for the Star Trek concept of an economic socialist utopia where society helps it's citizens with necessities of life.

Can't come fast enough. That's me thoughts here below.

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Such an amazing Chanel 👏 thank you !

Oh dear, flat earhers are gonna go nuts over that logo....

I m old enough to have seen a few episodes of the original serie on tv. entertaining, funny, and light on philosophy. had trouble at first to get into tng, felt it lacked star wars action. but then, I got hooked on the philosophic content, as even after the episode was over, I kept thinking about the issues involved. I was thrilled like no other shows about the next one. I admit that the special effects were better than movies at the time. tng was, in my opinion, the best show to help humanity s evolution - mentality. the fails.... now we know that transporter tech is impossible. replicators seem not very credible either. the distances required to find that much alien life according to travel time is off. there should have been more robots like r2, c3 - po. the time vs evolution seem skewed a little. ground vehicles like 'lost in space' seem necessary if only for fun. definitively add depth to the United Earth structure and Klingon, Romulan specie. planet patrolling should consist of colonists, not more aliens. more like the 'outland' movie concept of mining or terraforming. it was a little gullible and superficial in retrospect. however, cars have much improved since 1900, and building a credible universe in the future with a budget is similar in concept, it improves, we must persevere, as it leads to ideas to improve reality by theorising. we need a positive but realist vision to do better. reality... as we speak, Russian ships armed with nukes are coming to international waters near Washington, no joke... it looks a lot like the 2010 movie scenario. humanity will not survive WW3, bunkers will not outlast the radiation or consequences. no matter how futile it might seem now, we must try to save our lives, the mind is more powerful than nukes. 2010 ; something wonderful!' I m French Canadian, dedicated for world peace and a savant. 'rain man', 'a wonderful mind' but practical. did research in old civilisations - religions. + is the ancient symbol of a creator, positive. follow the 10 commandments since 2015. science theories have clues of the existence of a God. my intuition tells me that our effort might get support. anyways, we have not much to lose. a combination of science - spirituality seems like the best tool to get attention and make a difference. 1 + 1 = 2, science is the truth, therefore, the way to God. the universe is mathematical, calculable, building blocks, creation. I m a fighter in spirit, I refuse to do nothing and wait the end. but I need help. United Earth looks possible. meritocracy, abolition of money, craddle to grave, arcology. all will help to sell peace. luck, circumstances are up to God. but we must try! you don t need to do a miracle, just focus on concepts for this new, better world concept inspired by star trek, be +. maybe we can have a debate, pause the war or something. others here can contribute. good work, and God save us all.

I think they have varying success defending earth because they actually put very few defenses on and around earth. So it literally depends what ships are currently in spacedock and ready.

The usual stirling analysis on your part. Contrary to ultra-optimists, humans seem to revel moving in cycles, or perhaps random steps forward, random steps back. As a species, we lost the Handbook, and keep experimenting with stuff, but over time, seem to move, howbeit slowly, upwards. It is a "process". Live Long, etc.

I really enjoyed this video as I do most of your content. I do have faith that humanity will get their heads out of their butts sooner or later... My only concern would be... What will it take for that to happen?. lol

The Vulcans did not help humanity straight after first contact. We had to prove to the Vulcans we can live in peace. The remaining governments and factions sign a peace treaty and when the Vulcans saw we was sticking to the peace treaty they help us

There is a sad aspect to Star Trek that is never talked about. The utopia is apparently only achievable if we both encounter space elves and also invent magic. Sad most sad

It's amazing how a script writer can have a random, spur of the moment, thought and scribble it into the script with little thought of plausibility or practical consequences and many years later thousands of people assume it must make sense and find ways to shoehorn it into a logical conclusion.

Ronald Reagan famously said that Humanity would only unite if threatened by an extraterrestrial threat. He may have had a point, especially in Star Trek, as the Vulcan contact seems to have precluded this trend. All of the trends can be easily upended, by almost anything. Any new tech, political movement, natural events, or even relatively minor viruses can change it all at tne drop of a hat.