More Realistic Era for Star Trek?
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Would have given more room for the Romulan War to have been a protracted affair, multiple decades. Instead of the three day weekend in Earth orbit as some believe.
I'd give it a thousand years rather than a few hundred. I don't think our science or our society is anywhere near sophisticated enough to match Trek's.
There's also though the likelihood that the future will not be either Wagon Train to the Stars or Horatio Hornblower in Space. I think we'll all be plugged into each other and into AI's like a "good" Borg Collective, and one that we can unplug put of like the Great Link.
There's also though the likelihood that the future will not be either Wagon Train to the Stars or Horatio Hornblower in Space. I think we'll all be plugged into each other and into AI's like a "good" Borg Collective, and one that we can unplug put of like the Great Link.
I'd give it a thousand years rather than a few hundred. I don't think our science or our society is anywhere near sophisticated enough to match Trek's.
There's also though the likelihood that the future will not be either Wagon Train to the Stars or Horatio Hornblower in Space. I think we'll all be plugged into each other and into AI's like a "good" Borg Collective, and one that we can unplug put of like the Great Link.
There's also though the likelihood that the future will not be either Wagon Train to the Stars or Horatio Hornblower in Space. I think we'll all be plugged into each other and into AI's like a "good" Borg Collective, and one that we can unplug put of like the Great Link.
theres very little point in spending millions and millions to send vulnerable human beings dependent on food, water, air, companionship, sleep, (and many other things) to other planets for short periods of time when you can just send computer controlled machines that can operate more efficiently in harsher conditions for longer durations of time.
manned space flight is simply not a sensible future, at least for the next few hundred years, probably the next thousand years. Computer technology is evolving at an exponential rate and it makes no sense to choose humans to explore when you can just send machines
manned space flight is simply not a sensible future, at least for the next few hundred years, probably the next thousand years. Computer technology is evolving at an exponential rate and it makes no sense to choose humans to explore when you can just send machines
While I agree, I don't really think that answers the OP question.
So, how do you think the human civilization and the Federation is going to end in Trek? Do you think it will ever end?
The Mayan predicted the end of their civilizations and it came true. I think it was plaque that wiped out their crops that was the catalyst that brought the end to their civilization. At the time the Mayan rulers and high priests tried to fix the problems by building more pyramids and performing human sacrifice rituals as often as they can. That diverted their resources in large towards building the pyramids. Many people died building them and they can't afford to feed the people. Many tribes outside the ancient Mayan cities were pissed as a result of their tribes' members being hunted for the sole purpose of human sacrificing rituals and they would eventually help the Spaniards defeat the Mayans. Tsungsu describe similar events that had weakened the Chinese empire...constant warfare and the Chinese spending their valuable resources on building castles and walls which they enslaved the people for the jobs, which would eventually bring down their empire.
The Mayan predicted the end of their civilizations and it came true. I think it was plaque that wiped out their crops that was the catalyst that brought the end to their civilization. At the time the Mayan rulers and high priests tried to fix the problems by building more pyramids and performing human sacrifice rituals as often as they can. That diverted their resources in large towards building the pyramids. Many people died building them and they can't afford to feed the people. Many tribes outside the ancient Mayan cities were pissed as a result of their tribes' members being hunted for the sole purpose of human sacrificing rituals and they would eventually help the Spaniards defeat the Mayans. Tsungsu describe similar events that had weakened the Chinese empire...constant warfare and the Chinese spending their valuable resources on building castles and walls which they enslaved the people for the jobs, which would eventually bring down their empire.
It will die as it lived. If it lived well, it will transform into a better larger body. Perhaps encompassing multiple galaxies and dimensions and states of existence.
If it lived poorly, it will end as so many great nations. It will get fat and mean and wreak havoc and will fall apart from the inside till lesser bodies strike the final death blows.
Or they'll piss off Q and be de-evolved again to the goo from whence we came.
EDIT: it would be cool to see a Federation that has changed so much that it can do business with the Metrons and Organians and Prophets and is on the short-track to Q-dome...maybe only a few billion years more. Heh heh That's what 10-50 thousand years hence?
If it lived poorly, it will end as so many great nations. It will get fat and mean and wreak havoc and will fall apart from the inside till lesser bodies strike the final death blows.
Or they'll piss off Q and be de-evolved again to the goo from whence we came.
EDIT: it would be cool to see a Federation that has changed so much that it can do business with the Metrons and Organians and Prophets and is on the short-track to Q-dome...maybe only a few billion years more. Heh heh That's what 10-50 thousand years hence?
