Contemporary Future Earth

[shapeshifter]

Best depiction of a future city ever.

 

[robau]

It will be even better if we get to see some semblance of normal civilian life. Like how they handle the idea of someone rushing out of their apartment to grab a latte and get in the car to go to work. I suppose it would be too much to ask that the money question finally get settled.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Just because we recognize some buildings in cities doesn't mean they weren't nuked. People tend to rebuild to remember, I could see those London landmarks being replica buildings.

I'm sure it would take decades, probably at least a century, to completely rebuild a major city from the ground up.

Although the Vulcans may have helped in the process.

 

[Arpy]

Well, I'm rather underwhelmed. There's little that's dazzling about the futurism in new Trek.

 

[Greg Cox]

It's perhaps worth noting that we NEVER saw 23rd Century Earth in the original TV series, so this is virgin territory . . . .

 

[throwback]

In "The Cage", and later in the two-parter "The Menagerie", there was Mojave. We learned that the big cities were surrounded by parkland, and, based on the depiction in those episodes, humans had converted the desert to 'parkland'.

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Mojave

 

[Nerys Myk]

I like futuristic images of cities as well. However, unless the entire city is rebuilt from the ground up as a result of some horrific catastrophe, wouldn't there be older buildings still standing? Hell. Pittsburgh (where I live) has a gigantic
218 year old building smack dab in the middle of downtown. Just a thought.

Don't forget this is an Earth that has lived through the Eugenics Wars and/or World War III. A lot of cities may have been rebuilt from the ground up

And on Rock and Roll.

 

[3chordboy]

I like futuristic images of cities as well. However, unless the entire city is rebuilt from the ground up as a result of some horrific catastrophe, wouldn't there be older buildings still standing? Hell. Pittsburgh (where I live) has a gigantic
218 year old building smack dab in the middle of downtown. Just a thought.

London in 2259 features in the opening 9 minutes of the film and amongst all the gargantuan skyscrapers you can clearly see St Paul's Cathedral