Everything about 2025 is irrelevant to the 24th century. Trousers and shirts and guns and doctors and coffee and people getting married is irrelevant to the 24th century.
Very true! As much as outhouses in 1500 are to today's plumbing, not to mention the seashells of the future, technological and other advances make a new future. More, there's only one common frame of reference between a pretend future and today, which is also necessary. Perhaps two. Actually at least three, but this is starting to get into digressing too much.
Schools are irrelevant to the 24th century, as are cemetaries and retail stores and New Orleans cooking.
Education styles would differ, true.
Buriel or cremation or something would be superseded, though if disintegration is chosen then the ashes can't fertilize a rose bush or anything.
New Orleans cooking would arguably still there, albeit more as a hobby (think Renaissance Festival where people can pretend they live in an age where more creative and overall more interesting sartorial taste exited) thanks to replicators and all, hence those scenes where someone is preparing food not only gives insight, but also has that cool ASMR feel.
Here are two examples of that:
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Beets and spinach! YUM! I just ate but now I'm hungry again, and beets are medium on the GI index, but sure as heck are nutritious, unlike the following:
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Just remember, know what foods are interspecies changeable, since you don't feet most obligate carnivores chocolate as it's toxic or fatal to them thanks to the types of plantlife and mounds of sugar poured into the concoction that their organs can't deal with. it's human dessert of choice, of course, so if you don't dig it then always have a cuspidor and/or chamber pot handy...
We don't watch TV shows about the 24th century. We watch fantasies in which the supposed future world and the people in it are recognizably like us, living in a slight variation of our current culture, doing things pretty much as we do today although the narrative claims they do them faster or more efficiently or by using gadgets which inexplicably emit blue light to operate.
Bingo. Some episodes or shows do try to feel more authentic with details, even pedantic, to explain the fictional equipment. Others just show it for "ooh and aah" effect, which helps if nothing of the sort had ever been seen before anywhere.
The 24th or 23rd or 22nd or 31st centuries have nothing at all to do with the style or content of Star Trek, because no one knows anything about them.
Exactly. Reality vs theory makes for a fun conflict in the future. It still is romanticism of a sort, since not all romanticism is about the literal term of "romance/relationships", number of people you want to get into a bed, back of a car, phone booth, or who knows where and with what and nobody really cares unless it affects them, but before I go digressing again.
For everything else, there's another bent of sci-fi that includes stuff like this and, yes, stuff like this is also entertaining:
(Robert Picardo, surprise surprise! Even bigger a surprise is where there's a set wobble yet nobody whines that it's not Doctor Who and therefore shouldn't have any... and no worries, that's one of the tamer scenes involving the fertilizertongue!)
(Not as much swearing in that scene, but the movie's loaded with teh pottymouf and isn't that the sign from 1984's "Police Academy" redressed? Love them props!!)
Granted, neither of them feels like Trek in any other way and the uniqueness of each franchise is what sets them apart. Like that Doctor Who story "The Mind Robber" taught us back 57 years ago, one for each flavor of ketchup, the Doctor spat out something about "Sausages! People will just become like a string of sausages, all the same!" it's been a while and I couldn't find the clip, but it's not in stereo or color so it's all for the better...
It's easier to guess what they're for... and, yep, more toidytalk seems apropos -
literally!
I wonder how much she'd hit me for being Lapsed, as in I will never fucking attend Mass or accept the sacrament of confession or communion ever again. Oh yeah, the topic. Why not invent a new word like frell, gorram, stomm or frak. Those get past the censors just fine.
