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Dictatorship
Adictatorship was a form ofgovernment led by adictator, with one of its types being themilitary dictatorship. Being in opposition to ademocracy, thecitizens of a dictatorship had limitedfreedoms.
On1990sEarth, during theEugenics Wars, there weredozens of petty dictatorships. (TOS: "Space Seed")
In thescript for theStar Trek: The Next Generationfirst season episode "Encounter at Farpoint", it was stated that in the21st century, a "wounded and bleeding"Humanity recovering from anuclear war chose a dictatorial government which neither representedcapitalism orcommunism. This government existed during thepost-atomic horror.