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

  • bionicjoey@lemmy.caEnglish
    26·
    2 years 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.

    • shikogo@lemm.eeEnglish
      7·
      2 years ago

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

      • lorty@lemmy.mlEnglish
        10·
        2 years ago

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

      • PapaStevesy@midwest.socialEnglish
        6·
        2 years 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.

      • ThenThreeMore@startrek.websiteEnglish
        6·
        2 years 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.

    • PreviouslyAmused@lemmy.mlEnglish
      51·
      2 years ago

      And Irish reunification.

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

    • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
      3·
      2 years 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

  • Queen HawlSera@lemm.eeEnglish
    10·
    2 years 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?

    • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
      3·
      2 years 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.