Star Trek TOS - 029 Dreadnought by Gene DeWeese

Author:Gene DeWeese
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-05-14T16:00:00+00:00

"Disgusting ..." He actually shuddered.

"Have you heard of Li Quan?"

"Not in any detail. Only in references to excess."

"He popped out of the western United States and used the border skirmishes between the dictatorships to carry out a global coup. He wanted to be a benevolent dictator, he said. Unify all people under one flag, he said. The good of all, he said. Total sharing, food for all, planetary consolidation ..."

"What occurred?"

"Sarda, that system doesn't work! It sounds generous and perfect, but no matter how often it's been tried, it never operates. Li Quan kept talking benevolence, but the only way government control works is to turn everything into a law or a regulation, which means you have to bring in a military order to keep people in line, which means anybody who disagrees is automatically a criminal. His benevolent dictatorship started as a police state and escalated into a global bloodbath. And all the while he talked about his perfect order, how great it would be for all the people. Of course, in the meantime the people were starving because the economy was shot." I leaned forward intently as Sarda's brow knitted in lack of perception. "Don't you see? Rittenhouse is gradually taking control, gradually putting his own people into key positions. Admiral Armstrong as Star Fleet Representative to the Federation Congress, one step below the Chief Magistrate, three of his people commanding starships, himself chairing the Military Staff Advisory Committee at Fleet Command ... and Star Empire to light the fuse. The dreadnought isn't the beginning of a science--it's the end of a long fuse!"

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