ST V: The Final Frontier
He absolultely does not, because he lives in a postnationalist society.
He respects the sanctity of natural parks. Maybe natural reserves. Both names are in use in less jingoistic places, so you have to assume Trek’s Earth goes with some variation on that.
Was the name jingoistic or technical? I figured they were “National” because they’re funded at the federal level, even the ones that were historic-focused rather than nature-focused.
Yes, alongside state parks, which are funded at the state level.
A lot of countries don’t have the concept of a national government different from a local government. It’s all just the government. So there’s no requirement to label the parks in a different way to indicate their funding is from the national vs local government because it’s all the same thing.
So the parks are labelled according to what they do, is it a place set aside for nature and no construction authorised, well then it’s a nature reserve, is it specifically set up to help migratory birds, then it’s a bird reserve.
Based on that explanation I’m gonna say little of column A, little of column B.
Either way, none of those elements would be present in Trek’s fiction. No confusingly backwards nomenclature for regional governments that really seems to say the opposite of what it says, no conflating nations with federal states… and probably no funding at the center of the definition at all, considering the post-scarcity thing.
“Take Nothing But Pictures. Leave Nothing But Footprints… unless you’re using jet boots. Then don’t even leave the footprints.”
No footprints just scorch marks and the risk of Forrest fire
But there are always bud light (now Busch light) cans thrown about no matter where you go!
When we did the first leg of the AT, I kept an extra bag solely for my trash. Meanwhile the 2 guys I went with threw everything into the campfire. Including all their packaging from food and plastic mini liquor bottles. One of them had MREs with chemical heaters he burned in the fire.
