Ranma Al'Thor wrote:

On Fri, 3 Oct 1997, Paul A. Herring wrote:

       A major facet of the whole Moon Kingdom scenario is the fact that
1,000 years from now, Sailor Moon will reign as Queen Serenity over all the
earth. Well, what leads to this take-over? And, as a fic idea. . .
        . . .what if a large percentage of humanity decides that it doesn't
*want* to be ruled under an absolute monarchy (however benevolantly run)?

I doubt that it would be a large percentage.  And I doubt that it
would be an absolute monarchy.  

That's where the Black Moon Family came from, the people who left Earth
rather than stay under Serenity's rule.

Is this the official version of things?      

What about the differnet religions (Christianity and fundamentalist Islam
come to mind) that perhaps are a wee bit *opposed* to worshiping Serenity
as a Goddess? And if humanity has spread throughout space by then--I find
it hard to believe that we'll *still* be all on the same planet--how is she
gonna gather them all under her control?

How do we know she rules anything more than a city-state named
Crystal Tokyo?

The Earth freezes over for most of that 1000 year gap according to the
Manga, so no, Humanity hasn't gone anywhere.

Assuming that the Earth is flash frozen in the late 21st century, 
it's very possible that this occurs after humanity has established a
sustainable presence in space, at least.  If the "freezing over" is
a more natural process, ie. an ice age, then space travel seems like a 
an even more likely development.  

Nor, to my understanding does it state that anyone in the future worships
Serenity.  She's the Queen, but then Victoria was a queen and no
worshipped her.  (I hope)

People can mistake common fanfic ideas for the source material, 
particularly when they don't have access to it, as is the case
with most Sailor Moon material and most North Americans.  

However, it's far from unreasonable for there to be a Serenity
cult.  After all, she has vast supernatural power, virtually 
unquestionable benevolence, innately superhuman charisma and is 
personally integral to saving the world however many times.  
For a while there was a cult who worshipped Michael Jackson.
Why not Serenity?

But I doubt that Serenity deliberately tried to become worshipped,
or for that matter that she deliberately takes over the world, or would 
actively try to expand her domain past whatever it is, whether 
it's the world, or just a city-state.  Remember, this is
Usagi, we're talking about.  Would you describe her as ambitious,
hard working, eager to make the hard choices involved in running the
world?  Even after she grows up, I strongly suspect she wouldn't
qualify as a Type A personality.

While we're on the subject though, I was rather amused by one of the
social theories in "Together Again".  That nobody owns their genes,
but merely keeps them in trust.  I take it birth control is illegal
there?  In fact, given that they clone people and duplicate their
memories without prior consent, and then charge the resultant 
duplicates for the privilege, it seems clear that they think that
a person owns neither their body, nor even their mind.  De facto,
they've legalised slavery.  In fact, sufficiently ruthless
application of the principle of TINSTAAFL would easily allow someone
to grow a person and keep them indentured indefinitely for a
longer than human lifespan.  Ah, the utopian ideals of the future.