- Strangely enough, there never seem to be problems with these planets already being inhabited, and subsequent clashes of natives versus the settlers. Instead, they always seem to be conveniently free of sapient life.
This isn't strange. The Federation has a strict Alien Non-Interference Clause and technology that is able to identify most forms of sapient life from orbit. In fact, something like this happened in the episode "Home Soil", and when they realized they were mucking up a native population on what they thought was a dead world, they stopped the terraformation project almost immediately and put the planet on quarantine.
Simply put, Federation colonists don't have run-ins with native populations because they specifically avoid settling on planets that have native populations in the first place.
It's Misspelled, the good place is Eutopia, the no place is Utopia
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Actually the no place is Outopia. Thus Utopia is ambiguous between them: is it a good place that does not, or could not really exist?
Edited by 216.99.32.43 Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.-Philip K. Dick
Sorcerer in training
You will never read a weirder culture of the colony story. Really.
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry Pratchett
Funny, but not an example:
- Paranoia is a utozzzSTREAMING INTERRUPTzzzzzok. sorry,alpha complex is a dystopia,fellow citizen. yeah i'm a secret soicety member.zzwhat?
- The preceding was broadcast by a seditious commie mutant traitor who has been executed. Alpha Complex is a perfect utopia kept in clockwork perfection by way of Friend Computer.
- Wait, if everything is perfect, why do we have commie mutant seditionists?
- QUESTIONING THE WILL OF FRIEND COMPUTER IS TREASON!! REQUEST PERMISSION TO TERMINATE!
- Request received. Termination forms will be delivered in three to five weeks.
- So, you gonna shoot me or what?
Long live Marxism-Lennonism!