Inspired by gregorum’s post concerning issues with startrek.website, which is ironic as lemmy.world is a bit glitchy right now and isn’t letting me upload and had to use my alt here.

  • gregorumEnglish
    11•8 months ago

    Here’s the thing: Trek was never gritty before. Trek acknowledged the hardships of how we got to that utopian place, but only as a… distant abstract. It was in the past. As Trek went on and new series premiered, more history was revealed. It was gruesome. WWIII.The Eugenics Wars. Khan— who we then met, twice, and, who, then became a person of galactic importance.

    But it wasn’t until DS9 that we actually got a glimpse of post-contemporary Earth, but pre-WWIII. We saw San Fransisco in 2024. We saw something we had not yet, as a society, yet conceived in the mainstream: Sanctuary Districts.

    Today is March 17, 2024.

    I’m not gonna lie: in 1993, I was 14. Even then, I didn’t see how we could stop all this from happening.

    I’ll be 85 in 2064. I really hope I live to meet the Vulcans.

    • Flying SquidM
      4•8 months ago

      The whole sanctuary districts thing was a response to what they believed was a homelessness crisis in the 1990s, but was nothing compared to today. The idea was that some president would eventually just corral the homeless into concentration camps.