I don't think the opposition to religion did Marxism any harm to the movement, quite the opposite I'd argue. Anti-clericalism had been strong throughout for centuries before Marx.
Hardly. It's just semantics.
I like the idea of setting it on the Enterprise-C, rather than the -D, mostly because I think the Excelsior class is the swishiest, sexiest-looking starship design in all Star Trek.
The political context will be very different from OTL's TNG, as the Federation will face much stronger external...
Practically speaking, it'd probably be best to keep the series as similar to OTL as possible. The last thing I'd want to do is jeopardise any chances of the franchise's long-term survival. But here are some tweaks I'd make:
1) I like the idea of a series bible, that'd be good to create a...
It's just a tall tale.
Seriously, there are not, nor have there ever been, giants. The fact is that you cannot just scale things up and expect them to work the same. A human being above a certain size would be crushed under their own weight and simply not be biologically viable.
I partially agree. Obviously the fact that Southern Blacks were held as slaves, while the economic exploitation of Poor Whites was more subtle established pretty strongly among the culture very strong racial divisions. But then I also believe that Reconstruction did a lot of harm by reaching out...
I'm going to differ with you on your third presupposition, in that I believe a surviving CSA is likely to take a massive swing to the Left by the early 20th century - precisely because the levels of wealth disparity caused by a slave-holder system would be totally unsustainable. The concept of...
In what sense does France have a 'central position'?
The same could be said about everywhere else in the world at that time. 'National' languages only emerged after the nations in question established enough of an education infrastructure to force kids throughout their realm to start...
India is in as much of a mess as Pakistan, the difference is that Pakistan just has a couple of really big messes, while India has hundreds and hundreds of smaller messes.
With no Khazars, the story of European Jewry would have ended with the expulsions of the Middle Ages.
Seeing as there's a good chance Hitler himself had some Jewish background, he'd be wiped out of this timeline too.
In 1992, Moldova was fighting against the separatists in Transnistria. This would be the perfect time for a Romania-Moldova 'anschluss', as Moldova needs helping out with its war, and this hypothetical Romanian Nationalist government will win an early victory in its struggle to unite and purify...
This all sounds a bit too Huntingtonian for my tastes, with all this talk of civilisational splits. The world has always been too complicated to just divide into distinct civilisation-blocs.