The Ferengi were supposed to be the villain in 'Next Generation' and were capitalist.
They were too laughable to be threatening so they had to come up with the Borg instead in season 2 and onward.
Star Trek was always pseudo-Communist in its vision of the future. Star Wars and BSG were much more realistic in their take on future society.
“Star Trek was always pseudo-Communist”
I don’t know about that ... they had “credits” ... a concept of cash (just not physical money). People were free to live where they wanted. Families seemed to be able to keep things like land that was in their family for generations (Picard had a vineyard in France IIRC). People seemed to be free to choose whatever life they wanted in the Trek universe ... Communism is nothing like that as a state dictates your role based on your abilities.
If anything, I’d say Trek politics was more “Socialism w/o social engineering” or “form of government not yet identified”.
“Star Wars and BSG were much more realistic in their take on future society.”
BSG was set 150,000 years in the past. And Star Wars has ‘The Force’ which is not very realistic at all.
The Ferengi were supposed to be the villain in 'Next Generation' and were capitalist.
They were too laughable to be threatening so they had to come up with the Borg instead in season 2 and onward.