“The future has so much potential, we’re closer to Star Trek every day” - Me, about 20 years ago

  • Pons_Aelius@kbin.social
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    we’re closer to Star Trek every day

    Did you forget all the horrible shit that happens in the star trek timeline between 2000 and the founding of the federation in 2161?

    Going off the TOS timeline, WWIII starts next year…

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      This is what I said to my little brother after watching the DS9 2-parter about the Bell Riots

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      Yeah Gene Roddenberry could see the direction capitalism was taking humanity, his optimism was that enough of us would be able to survive the collapse and we would rebuild better in its aftermath. That part remains to be seen, but Star Trek has always been collapse aware.

      • SokathHisEyesOpen@lemmy.ml
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        What’s weird is that I’m pretty sure I’m not from the mirror universe, but sometime right around the time they had that supermassive hadron collider accident, the world started getting bizarro. I think either our universes fused, or I got caught in a temporal anomaly and ended up here.

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      I was imagining more

      Extreme weather events cause mass migration

      Violent conflicts erupt due to displaced people, famine and water … the conflicts are just one step short of a war (it’s violent enough for many people to be killed but doesn’t grow into a general war … like Palestine on a continental scale)

      Society breaks down in incremental steps over about 50 years

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    Go watch DS9’s “Past Tense” two parter (S3E11/12). Star Trek is surprisingly bang-on in predicting what the world would look like in 2023.

    Unfortunately I don’t think that we will have the Gabriel Bell Riots next year, but we’ll see.

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      Do I need context for DS9 for this? I never got around to watching any of it.

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        It’s pretty self contained, one of the advantages of old made-for-tv-reruns media.

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        Being able to identify the characters might help some, but otherwise no. It’s a two part capsule episode

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        Not really. It’s not part of ds9’s big arc. Little bottle time travel episodes. Guess knowing that the Romulan’s have lent Starfleet a cloaking device for the Defiant might help you not get into a canon mess over some of the technobable reasons for the time travel.

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        I’m not sure, but the basic set-up is DS9 is a space station positioned near a planet wherein one species has very recently freed itself from slavery to another species. It’s in the ass-end of nowhere and is seemingly a quiet posting until a wormhole leading to the unexplored gamma quadrant opens nearby, drawing all kinds of attention. That’s all I really remember and it’s probably largely inaccurate, lol.

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      And Irish reunification.

      But to your point, if you’ve been to San Fran recently, we’re depressingly right on track

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      It probably helps A LOT that he doesn’t seem to care whether people like him or not. Can’t say the same for the other two, and that’s what drives them to keep doing the stupidest shit imaginable.

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    So it’s obvious that we are in a dystopian timeline in which some terrible satire writer has created one of the most unrealistic depictions of the future possible. So in the prime timeline what do you think the future is like?

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      It’s a timeline written by a bunch of high school juniors that had the whole year to write a play for years end but decided to wait until the last two weeks before the show to get their shit together.