Leeches do feel good anyway and if this guy from the other village needs to wash his hands before operating it means he's not clean to begin with.
The only possible utopia, imo, is one where everyone tries to create their own whilst simultaneously allowing for other, quite different utopias.
Whilst people continue to look to external authority/government for the answer (when they are the cause of the problems) we won't even start.
> "1893. When a series of suicides were vigorously discussed in United Kingdom newspapers, critic William Archer suggested that in the golden age* there would be penny-in-the-slot machines by which a man could kill himself." [1]
*"'Golden Age' denotes a period of primordial peace, harmony, stability, and prosperity." [2]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthanasia_device#Suicide_boot...
1. In the future we will identify genes which govern sociopathy, or at least predispose to it.
2. Parents will have the ability to edit the genomes of their kids before conception.
3. Nobody wants a sociopathic kid.
This is my headcannon for how humanity creates the Federation.
There's a kind of resume of all that in Strange new world first episode (there's also another episode regarding genetic modification but considering it didn't prevent all the other episodes from happening then I suppose it can be skipped but it shows how strong is the opinion of the federation on the subject).
I don't remember they talk much about the eugenic wars in TNG so it's most likely why it's not on your radar.
They are all on Netflix at the moment. If you want to watch only one episode I highly recommend the Star Enterprise one (and there's a nice tie-in with TNG ;).
The Federation's opinion of the subject is very strong in some episodes, and in others they completely forget about it.
Are you talking about the episodes where genetic engineering was illegal?
Or the episodes where they completely forgot about that?
> Are you talking about the episodes where genetic engineering was illegal?
> Or the episodes where they completely forgot about that?
Can't you guess ?
The ones that are absolutely not key plot points in the general Star Trek lore, of course.
Congrats on spoiling it for the sake of being a smartypants. Consistency problems in Star Trek, oh noes..
edit: well, well, well:
The station was mentioned in passing in The Lost Era novel The Buried Age, where Picard called it an exception to the rule (DS9: "Doctor Bashir, I Presume") that should have never been allowed.
Quite frankly, I chalk this up to too much Roddenberry in early TNG seasons and his love for psychic mutants (and giant talking heads with god like powers).