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

  • Pons_Aelius@kbin.social
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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…

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      1 year ago

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

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      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@lemmy.ml
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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.