Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 2x03 - "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow"

[Phoenix219]

And I promise you the real world does not work that way, and everything is documented and based on ID and there's no way anyone is getting a hotel room in this modern day and age without an id. It might be common in fiction but it is completely unbelievable in the 21st century. In most places you aren't getting anything without a credit card and a security deposit these days. Even the crappy places.

 

[Phoenix219]

I guarantee you would not manage that in a big city hotel. That is laughable. Reality is not spy fiction.

 

[Tuskin38]

and Star Trek isn't reality.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I guarantee you would not manage that in a big city hotel. That is laughable. Reality is not spy fiction.

it's not Star Trek either.

 

[CorporalClegg]

I guarantee you would not manage that in a big city hotel. That is laughable. Reality is not spy fiction.

Wanna bet?

 

[cooleddie74]

There's a way into any hotel if you have the right resources. CCTV cameras or not.

 

[Ovation]

I guarantee you would not manage that in a big city hotel. That is laughable. Reality is not spy fiction.

With a thick enough wad of cash, it’s a snap. It only requires a willingness and confidence to to try. We don’t live in a post cash world yet.

 

[fireproof78]

but it is completely unbelievable in the 21st century. I

So, are we discovering Trek is fiction?

Or that our surveillance society has gone too far?

 

[cooleddie74]

Walk into a hotel lobby with several hundred in cash and visible disposable income and the attendant will make sure you get a room.

 

[fireproof78]

Walk into a hotel lobby with several hundred in cash and visible disposable income and the attendant will make sure you get a room.

I've flown without my ID too.

These things are possible.

 

[The Wormhole]

And I promise you the real world does not work that way, and everything is documented and based on ID and there's no way anyone is getting a hotel room in this modern day and age without an id. It might be common in fiction but it is completely unbelievable in the 21st century. In most places you aren't getting anything without a credit card and a security deposit these days. Even the crappy places.

I guarantee you would not manage that in a big city hotel. That is laughable. Reality is not spy fiction.

You really want to start judging the realism of a TV show? TV is not reality. TV shows exist in a magical land, where crimes can be committed, investigated and arrests made in less than an hour. Court cases never last the months if not years they would in the real world. Hospitals are able to diagnose, treat and cure ailments in less time than it takes for the test results to come back in the real world. TV shows always make a regular habit of showing things in a manner that's never accurate to how it would go in the real world and I guarantee you, should we ever begin exploring space outside the solar system, it will not be similar to Star Trek at all. With all that in mind is it really so scandalous to see two people occupying a hotel room despite a lack of a credit card or ID?

 

[Unique]

I swear this is the dumbest bullshit complaint I’ve ever encountered in 50 years of watching Trek. A wad of cash, an underpaid cleaning staff, and a hotel at less than full capacity…voilà. I guarantee you I could manage it in under 20 minutes in a big city hotel. It’s a frequent occurrence in all sorts of spy/adventure/etc. movies and shows. FFS.

Hey! Some of us have never bribed anyone.
Successfully.

 

[Mudd]

And I promise you the real world does not work that way, and everything is documented and based on ID and there's no way anyone is getting a hotel room in this modern day and age without an id. It might be common in fiction but it is completely unbelievable in the 21st century. In most places you aren't getting anything without a credit card and a security deposit these days. Even the crappy places.

So what?

 

[Unique]

I've flown without my ID too.

These things are possible.

The only thing I’ve done without an ID is vote.

So, are we discovering Trek is fiction?

Or that our surveillance society has gone too far?

…..Yes

 

[Phoenix219]

So, are we discovering Trek is fiction?

Or that our surveillance society has gone too far?

Oh, way too far. I went most of my life without a credit card, and a few years back spent way too much time going from hotel to motel trying to find a place I could actually get a room at with a limited cash supply and no credit cards. Some places are starting to require cell phones to order or show tickets. (I didn't get a phone until a few years ago when smart phones became cheap and unlimited.) Of course, twenty years ago, I knew people that would go partying in hotels and trash the place, so its not completely understandable. I definitely agree with your last statement 100%, though.

It was just something that I noticed that took me out of the moment, and then I wondered if they had enough time to drive from Toronto to Vermont and back, and had to google map it. Lots of shows have done this, and I've noticed it before. I know things are just fiction, but its something I noticed. Isn't nitpicking what we do here, in general? I didn't start arguing about the show; I started arguing about the UNREALISTIC idea that it is something that can be done easily in real life. Most of these underpaid staff are going to be accountable, and with shift changes, computer records and the aforementioned cameras in the modern day, it is VERY unlikely that a bribe would even work.

 

[Unique]

This forum saves the comments you write but decide not to post, and then posts them for you if you come back and answer a different comment later.

This is going to get me in trouble.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

They bribed a border guard to get to Vermont, but they cannot get a hotel room on the down low?! Seriously?



P.S. "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow" unambiguously does not take place in the real world.

 

[Phoenix219]

They bribed a border guard to get to Vermont, but cannot they get get a hotel room on the down low?! Seriously?



P.S. "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow" unambiguously does not take place in the real world.

I rolled my eyes at that one, too, but at least they attempted to explain it. Should have made it a running gag, then, and a joke about how easily swayed we are by money, or something.

 

[Photoman15]

They bribed a border guard to get to Vermont, but they cannot get a hotel room on the down low?! Seriously?



P.S. "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow" unambiguously does not take place in the real world.

Must have been a Canadian Border Guard.

 

[Guy Gardener]

I only just noticed what the title means.

They are at a (three pronged) fork in the timeline.

There's three possible futures, or three tomorrows.