The Socialist Iteration

"The Socialist Iteration" title card.

"The Socialist Iteration" is one of the "Forbidden Episodes" of the television series Star Trek.

Plot

Mister Spock, while conducting research on pre-spaceflight socialism, observes:

The word "socialism", like the word "love", is understood completely by those who experience it — and completely misunderstood by those who do not. It appears impossible to prove its existence, yet we have assertions from nearly every society that love between individuals scales up to love within a society for itself as a whole.

The episode has been compared to "My Dinner with Andre", with Spock as Andre.

TO_DO - cast Star Trek crew member as the other guy in "My Dinner"

Episodes with similar themes

"The Rosenbergs".

History

The episode was first detected and decrypted by software developer and APTO consulting fabulist on the morning of Sunday, 10 January 2021, in a comment on Facebook.

In the News

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Fiction cross-reference

• City on the Edge of Flower Power
• Fell Swoop
• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles
• Green Treks and Ham
• High-energy literature
• The TARDIS on the Edge of Forever

External links

• Comment @ Facebook