“The future has so much potential, we’re closer to Star Trek every day” - Me, about 20 years ago
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Sanctuary districts
Eugenics war
WW3
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
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.
Their apocalyptic Sanctuary Zones looked better than the bad parts of any current major city.
Do I need context for DS9 for this? I never got around to watching any of it.
It’s pretty self contained, one of the advantages of old made-for-tv-reruns media.
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.
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.
None of that is relevant to the episode I mentioned. It’s a time travel episode
Idc
It’s a time travel episode, so no, not really.
And Irish reunification.
But to your point, if you’ve been to San Fran recently, we’re depressingly right on track
When did the Zuck start to look like the most decent person?
When there was brief moment of hope he’d internally decapitate Musk in a cage match.
Comparing him to Musk in this way … very minimally makes anyone look decent.
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.
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?
It’s like a tree on a crisp fall day.
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.
No this is more like written the day before on bath salts and Adderall
I’m not sure what the hell I just watched, but it sure was catchy lol
Y.A.C.H.T. is awesome
I listened to a few others and kind of dig some of it
I thought the same. I thought, I like a couple songs but most are weird. Then I remembered, I’m a weirdo. 😎
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…
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.
