McCoy walking around the hospital just being thoroughly pissed off at all the archaic medical techniques and technology was one of my favourite parts of that film.
It’s a funny scene, but it also doesn’t make much sense. He traveled the galaxy and had traveled through time before. He had seen much more primitive medicine and he knew that 20th century Earth was primitive compared to the medicine of his time, so he shouldn’t have even been a little surprised.
No, it’s realistic. People get used to a modern standard and then struggle to cope when they see that standard not being followed.
Imagine going from a country with fair elections to a country with a dictatorship. It would piss you off that they’re not “with the times” politically, regardless of the fact that you knew it in advance.
Same thing with any modern standard.
But think of how many planets he had already been to with primitive medicine.
To be fair, 20th (and probably 21st) century Earth history is going to be very interesting to people in the far future, provided we get there. The century opened with the Wright brothers barely getting off the ground for 120 feet in a crazy headwind, Armstrong took a giant leap a mere 66 years later, and then in 1998, the International Space Station launched, and we go into space with people and objects so often now that nobody really cares anymore.
How well would you fit in if you found yourself 300 years in the past? You probably have a passing knowledge of what the world was like in 1724, but would you really be able to blend in and get the little details right?
And that’s probably an easier task than going back 300 years to the 20th century, when changes were coming much more rapidly.
As often as they go back, “20th Century Earth History” is probably a recommended companion course to “Temporal Mechanics 101” at Starfleet Academy
I literally just realized that after making that comment. I should have said 20th / early 21st century Earth history. lol
Life as an older millennial has blurred the line between 20th and 21st centuries for me haha.
Exactly! If you want to travel to the past, you will require extensive training in order to cope!
