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What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?
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Only a small fraction of it.
It's diverged ALOT since the 1960's.
Ever since then, IRL history is vastly different than what has ever been portrayed in Star Trek for Earth's history after that point in time.
Trying to shoe-horn in more of IRL history or fake versions of it isn't going to help.
It's best to call it a divergence and let it be.
Just ignore the fake stuff. How hard is that?
Fake history class was way harder than real history class.
Tell that to the production staff who likes to do "Time Travel" shows back to modern day.
There were no "Bell Riots".
There were no "Sanctuary District A" to visit.
They made that stuff up to create conflict in the story.
Instead of using IRL history of that time frame.
Last time a checked DS9 wasn't written in 2024.
I love a good time travel to the present story.
But, again. If it's 2024 you ignore the Bell Riots when writing a Star Trek installment. Just as VOY ignored the Eugenics Wars in the 90s. (Except for the nerds in the art department)
Nah. All the answers are right.
Luckily the original Eugenics Wars took place over most of the Asian Continent.
Granted most US News don't cover much world news either, even during that period when Voyager went back in time.
So not talking about the Eugenics Wars was a good decision as well since it was relevant to the story that Voyager was dealing with, which is local to Los Angeles, CA
Speculation.
Pretty sure the "last of your so called World Wars" would get coverage in the States.
We hardly get coverage of most world news, the news cycle is so fast, they keep jumping to the latest outrage / controversy.
Ukraine and other conflicts around the world barely get covered in the news.
Sure.
Ukraine's covered constantly here.
And Gaza. And Syria...
It’s a nice counter, but in truth most fictional universes use ‘our world’ as a touchstone. Marvel Comics do, Doctor Who does, Stranger Things, Ghostbusters, Columbo, Friends… all of them take place in worlds which bear a 99% similarity to our own.
99%. It’s just not necessary to go that extra 1% to make it ‘our’ world because… it’s not. Edith Keeler never existed, Mark Twain never hung out with Data and you can bet Vulcan’s won’t be making First Contact some years down the line. It’s all fiction and I’m fine with that.
Star Trek isn’t reality. Attempts to make it align as such are utterly futile and completely needless.
And you're unable to find international news on American sites?
If I intentionally go looking for it, sure I'm able to find it easily.
But most news is fed via YouTube & their Algorithms.
If I care for it, I'll delve more into it; otherwise I'm searching for what's on my subscription list most of the time.
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