In Star Trek, Gene Roddenberry?s idealistic vision of the future, the United Federation of Planets is born. Money is forgotten, technology is advanced, and the human race lives in near-harmony with their alien neighbors, too busy exploring the wonder of far-flung reaches of the galaxy with Starfleet to engage in discrimination or warfare. Except every TV show needs drama. So, as the franchise progressd Roddenberry?s perfect future became less and less idyllic.