“The future has so much potential, we’re closer to Star Trek every day” - Me, about 20 years ago
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…
The Bell Riots also start in 2024. Oh boy, it’s going to be a wild few years.
I came here to say that. They start in September, so we’ve got a little less than a year. Though, I do wonder how a true first contact would affect us.
I do wonder how a true first contact would affect us.
A good chunk of the population would not believe it was true (the gov conspiracy crew), while another section would not believe it was just happening now ( the Roswell crowd)
Another section would believe it was the bible end of days and the aliens are Satan and his demons.
This is what I said to my little brother after watching the DS9 2-parter about the Bell Riots
How is nobody doing 2+2 and figuring out we’re the “mirror universe”? At best.
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.
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.
Do I need context for DS9 for this? I never got around to watching any of it.
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
When did the Zuck start to look like the most decent person?
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 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.
