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

  • @bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
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    321 year ago

    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.

    • SokathHisEyesOpen
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      91 year ago

      Their apocalyptic Sanctuary Zones looked better than the bad parts of any current major city.

      • @lorty@lemmy.ml
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        141 year ago

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

      • ThenThreeMore
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        1 year ago

        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.

      • @PapaStevesy@midwest.social
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        61 year ago

        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.

    • @PreviouslyAmused@lemmy.ml
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      51 year ago

      And Irish reunification.

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