In Star Trek, you have a society with a post scarcity economy, interstellar space travel, sentient robots that can be your friend, almost magical medical technology, magical and limitless energy, limitless (apparently) free food and drink, magical holographic entertainment technology to make your every fantasy real (at least for a little while), magical technology in general, communicators so you can keep in touch at all times, monitor your vital signs at all times, and let the higher ups know your location and what you are doing at all times, transporter technology allowing instantaneous travel which also leads to questions of a metaphysical nature, people who use the holodeck to create replicas of you to ridicule, abuse, assault, and rape, killer robots, a class system despite the absence of money, population control through colonization, impoverished colonies despite a post scarcity economy, colonies wiped out by aggressive alien species, aggressive alien species, aggressive alien disease, and the likelihood of being murdered by a fucking cloud. Fuck Star Trek. Who the hell would want to live in that nightmare?
To be honest, probably not. Culture is stagnant in the 24th century. No new movies, no TV, no new music, and the only new literature was written by Jake Sisko in an alternate timeline. Okay, so there's holodecks as the primary entertainment medium, but even then, the popular programs are based on Shakespeare, Sherlock Holmes, a 1940s noir detective, and a Flash Gordon-esque adventure program.
Nah. I'm good. If there's no such thing as drama or conflict amongst humans, how do we encourage each other to be better people?
If I were transplanted into the 23rd/24th Century, one of the first things I would do (after they set me up with housing, which of course they would do) is search the house computer for a record of all video games of the 20th and 21st centuries....or rather, search all interactive entertainment as available... and have a time!![]()
If I were transplanted into the 23rd/24th Century, one of the first things I would do (after they set me up with housing, which of course they would do) is search the house computer for a record of all video games of the 20th and 21st centuries....or rather, search all interactive entertainment as available... and have a time!![]()
You'd get there and find out they were all destroyed during World War III.![]()
If I were transplanted into the 23rd/24th Century, one of the first things I would do (after they set me up with housing, which of course they would do) is search the house computer for a record of all video games of the 20th and 21st centuries....or rather, search all interactive entertainment as available... and have a time!![]()
You'd get there and find out they were all destroyed during World War III.![]()
NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
Apparently Gillian Taylor got along just fine.
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