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

  • Pons_Aelius
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    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…

    • BrutalPoseidon
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      361 year ago

      The Bell Riots also start in 2024. Oh boy, it’s going to be a wild few years.

      • r00ty
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        131 year ago

        Well, I was thinking about Trump’s plan to make homelessness illegal and offer “offenders” the option of moving to a rehabilitation “tent city”. It seems like an eerily similar plan.

      • @[email protected]
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        81 year ago

        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.

        • Pons_Aelius
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          181 year ago

          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.

        • @samus12345
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          21 year ago

          Probably something like the Mirror Universe first contact.

    • FancyLad OP
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      This is what I said to my little brother after watching the DS9 2-parter about the Bell Riots

      • Uranium3006
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        91 year ago

        It was pretty spot on. All they gotta do is put a wall around skid row

    • @[email protected]
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      71 year ago

      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.

      • SokathHisEyesOpen
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        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.

    • IninewCrow
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      31 year ago

      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

  • @[email protected]
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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.

      • Kichae
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        141 year ago

        Being able to identify the characters might help some, but otherwise no. It’s a two part capsule episode

      • ThenThreeMore
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        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.

      • @[email protected]
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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.

    • @[email protected]
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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

    • IninewCrow
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      31 year ago

      Comparing him to Musk in this way … very minimally makes anyone look decent.

    • @[email protected]
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      21 year ago

      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.

  • Queen HawlSera
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    111 year ago

    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?

    • @WoahWoah
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      31 year ago

      It’s like a tree on a crisp fall day.

    • IninewCrow
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      31 year ago

      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.

      • Queen HawlSera
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        21 year ago

        No this is more like written the day before on bath salts and Adderall