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Jealousy, unrequited love, grief for those who passed away...? Just what immediately popped into my head; I'm sure there's more.

I dunno, reading that I’m more inclined to prepare for cyberpunk than to magically assume we can fix millions of years of evolution.

Star Trek made it work.

Yes, by making a comparison between the Utopian Federation and other "lesser" cultures like those of the Klingons and Romulans, and then in later series like DS9, implying that the Federation itself wasn't as utopian as it seemed.