this post was submitted on 06 Oct 2023
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"The future has so much potential, we're closer to Star Trek every day" - Me, about 20 years ago

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

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 36 points 9 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months 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] 8 points 9 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I don't like what you have to say... But I don't disagree with it either.

[–] samus12345 2 points 9 months ago

Probably something like the Mirror Universe first contact.

[–] FancyLad 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

How is nobody doing 2+2 and figuring out we’re the “mirror universe”? At best.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Sanctuary districts

Eugenics war

WW3


[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months 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] 32 points 9 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

Their apocalyptic Sanctuary Zones looked better than the bad parts of any current major city.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Do I need context for DS9 for this? I never got around to watching any of it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago

It's pretty self contained, one of the advantages of old made-for-tv-reruns media.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

None of that is relevant to the episode I mentioned. It's a time travel episode

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago

It's a time travel episode, so no, not really.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

And Irish reunification.

But to your point, if you’ve been to San Fran recently, we’re depressingly right on track

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (3 children)

When did the Zuck start to look like the most decent person?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

When there was brief moment of hope he'd internally decapitate Musk in a cage match.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

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

[–] WoahWoah 3 points 9 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago