{"id":81675,"date":"2018-08-12T15:02:21","date_gmt":"2018-08-12T22:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/the-battle-for-a-star-trek-future-federation-vs-terran-empire"},"modified":"2018-08-12T15:02:21","modified_gmt":"2018-08-12T22:02:21","slug":"the-battle-for-a-star-trek-future-federation-vs-terran-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/the-battle-for-a-star-trek-future-federation-vs-terran-empire","title":{"rendered":"The Battle for a Star Trek Future: Federation vs. Terran Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pJL8MhTKQ48?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>When I think about our future, I cannot help myself but look upon the fictional universe of Star Trek. Not just because of their unabiding pursuit \u201cto boldly go where no one has gone before,\u201d but equally their philosophical measurement of their day-to-day lives.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>As the U.S. government continues to impose xenophobic policies and attempts to militarize space, our future runs the risk of becoming something similar to the tyrannical (albeit fictional) entity known as the Terran Empire.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grayscott.com\/seriouswonder-\/\/the-battle-for-a-star-trek-future-federation-vs-terran-empire\">https:\/\/www.grayscott.com\/seriouswonder-\/\/the-battle-for-a-s...ran-empire<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I think about our future, I cannot help myself but look upon the fictional universe of Star Trek. Not just because of their unabiding pursuit \u201cto boldly go where no one has gone before,\u201d but equally their philosophical measurement of their day-to-day lives. As the U.S. government continues to impose xenophobic policies and attempts [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}