There's concept and there's execution.
TOS suffers today (to some extent) by having been made four decades ago. For many viewers they can't get past the look of TOS and how it depicted some of its concepts. And of course it was inevitable that a show like ENT would take criticism because for many it didn't look convincingly pre TOS.
But while one can quibble about some of the execution after all these years are there still aspects of TOS that are convincingly futuristic conceptually?
Teleportation and FTL star travel as well as FTL communications are still very futuristic concepts. The communicator is certainly more than just a cel phone having to be able to transmit/receive signals over tens of thousands of miles without a support network of any kind--there's nothing remotely like that in the foreseeable future. And although the terminology is different from the sequel series the idea of processing any kind of food and resources and articles (likely from raw materials) is still far beyond our means.
The ship's computers don't appear to operate in a way we think more credible and yet they are managing this vast sophisticated construct that is a starship and manage navigating it at unholy FTL speeds over incredible interstellar distances. There are also sensors that are incredibly sophisticated able to detect small traces of organic matter over great distances, able to read an object or material's composition and even can discern between different types of life forms. We can't do anything like that without an onsite and/or in-hand analysis.
So how much of TOS is still futuristic or conversely outdated? And how much of it is the manner in which ideas are depicted an injustice to the ideas?
TOS suffers today (to some extent) by having been made four decades ago. For many viewers they can't get past the look of TOS and how it depicted some of its concepts. And of course it was inevitable that a show like ENT would take criticism because for many it didn't look convincingly pre TOS.
But while one can quibble about some of the execution after all these years are there still aspects of TOS that are convincingly futuristic conceptually?
Teleportation and FTL star travel as well as FTL communications are still very futuristic concepts. The communicator is certainly more than just a cel phone having to be able to transmit/receive signals over tens of thousands of miles without a support network of any kind--there's nothing remotely like that in the foreseeable future. And although the terminology is different from the sequel series the idea of processing any kind of food and resources and articles (likely from raw materials) is still far beyond our means.
The ship's computers don't appear to operate in a way we think more credible and yet they are managing this vast sophisticated construct that is a starship and manage navigating it at unholy FTL speeds over incredible interstellar distances. There are also sensors that are incredibly sophisticated able to detect small traces of organic matter over great distances, able to read an object or material's composition and even can discern between different types of life forms. We can't do anything like that without an onsite and/or in-hand analysis.
So how much of TOS is still futuristic or conversely outdated? And how much of it is the manner in which ideas are depicted an injustice to the ideas?
). Also, it's not that I don't like TOS. I do like it, a lot. It's just that I grew up with the spin-offs and like them more.
Conversely, are we honestly supposed to believe that a show made in the 21st century should have similar production values to Lost in Space? 
