Talk:World government in science fiction

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1 Choice of examples
2 President of Earth
3 Organization?
4 Ira Levin's This Perfect Day

[edit] Choice of examples

The mere choices of examples here exhibits a strong pro-American bias. Can someone balance it from a global perspective? Mission9801 03:07, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

I do agree with the strong-Pro-American bias (an I am one), I prefer a balanced view for ideas this far reaching. But I wanted to add two more American sci-fi sources to this list. In Star Trek, Earth has united under a unified world government. Based on the hints and clues given in the series over time this government has the following attributes: Democracy, unified military, rule of law, separation of church and state, regional government, all the while maintaining local customs, languages, and culture. In addition in the book Contact (later made into a movie - although the movie ignores this aspect) the discovery of the signal starts the world down the path to global government.

Another relevant example of a unified world government in science fiction appears in the American TV show Babylon 5 where the Earth Alliance, pretty much like Star Trek's United Earth, is formed in the wake of a catastrophic World War in the late 21st century. Babylon Five's Earth Alliance originally seems to be a representative democracy with a popularly-elected World Senate and a strong, also popularly-elected World President who is in command of a unified Earth military (known as EarthForce). In the mid-23rd century however, the Earth Alliance experiences a brief period of fascist rule during which the Senate is dissolved and individual rights and freedoms are curtailed. Authoritarian rule is ended though following a civil war that leads to a return to representative democracy and Earth's joining the Interstellar Alliance (remniscent of Star Trek's United Federation of Planets, though not exactly equivalent).201.52.32.9 21:10, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] President of Earth

As far as I recall Star Trek VI, that was the president of the whole federation. Correct me if I'm wrong. About the American bias thing, it's generally interesting how these universal governments are always presidential systems. We europeans find that kind of unlikely. Maybe someone finds sources on that ;) Xaver David (talk) 18:21, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Organization?

I suggest moving the "President of Earth" section before the "Examples of world governmental organizations in fiction and popular culture". I'd also suggest a change from list format to prose in order to encourage people to add referenced information instead of an ever growing list of "examples". Any thoughts? Star dust 8212 01:31, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

I totally agree and look forward to these changes. Andrzej Kmicic (talk) 02:04, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

I moved the two sections and put the appropriate tages on the other section, I don't have time to do a complete rewrite just now but maybe this will inspire some other people to get working on it. I also changed the section heading to "World governmental organizations in fiction and popular culture" once again to try to keep people from simply making a list (plus that was a REALLY LONG section heading) anyone is free to revert me of course, I won't be offended. Star dust 8212 13:26, 26 February 2008 (UTC)