My possible theory on how humans "evolved" in Star trek. They are all robots!

[Jayson1]

I like to think people are the same as ever, they're just taught from birth that they're superior and so they believe it. It adds kind of a dark edge to the squeaky clean Next Gen universe.

You can actually have both idea's be the truth. Like in "Westworld" they didn't become sentient until they programed them to fill pain inside, maybe that along with a internal sense of superiority is a key element in making the robots work. You also have something like Section 31 around which allows the humans to not always embrace their darkness because they know, maybe like a instinct, that good will always win out because they don't always have to do horrible things to get their way, yet things keep working out for them.

Jason

 

[Prax]

Maybe it's all just a simulation, and they are in a Matrix. Warp speed, Time Travel, replicators, continuity errors...It can't be real...right?

Or maybe while we're reading their story, someone else is reading ours...

 

[Jayson1]

Maybe it's all just a simulation, and they are in a Matrix. Warp speed, Time Travel, replicators, continuity errors...It can't be real...right?

Or maybe while we're reading their story, someone else is reading ours...

I like this but we should include the the idea that this matrix is being controlled by apes,cats, dogs etc. In the real world the creatures we see as non-sentient lifeforms are the sentient lifeforms and the humans are just primitve simple animals. The entire simulation is nothing more than fantasy entertainment that allows the "animals" to plug in and play one of the human,alien etc characters. Each Trek show is it's own seperate game. When you watch "Best of Both World's" you are actually watching a monkey pretending to be Riker and a lizard pretending to be Picard/Locutus as they each try and win the game by going against each other.

Jason

 

[Ralphis]

And it will happen again.

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I did hear 'All Along The Watchtower' on the radio earlier...

 

[dswynne1]

You say "robots", but a simpler answer is "cloning". Not only do you have a depleted population, but also a population that that would be affected by both disease, biological agents (ie. Col. Green) and radiation. All that will cause a significant percentage of babies born with cogental illnesses. So, how to fix this? Cloning. In fact, I would not be surprised if a) the research done to create Augments was used to deal with this problem, and, b) get assistance from the Vulcans for special treatments. I mean, think about it: just because Khan Noonien Singh assumed that Humankind did not advance to HIS liking, that does not mean Humankind did not advance; just throttled back to avoid the Augment problem, IMO.

 

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[Tim Thomason]

It is all a simulation. They're all holograms. These Are the Voyages... states outright that the entire series Enterprise (my favorite series) exists only on the Enterprise-D holodeck. Since Riker and Troi appear much younger in TNG, I can only assume that that is an idealized version of themselves, extrapolated from Riker's 22nd century holoprogram.

This would explain everything. The use of recurring actors (there are only so many programmed templates, the Glenn Corbett template became corrupted and was replaced by the James Cromwell/Nayrok file), the continuity errors, the inconsistent theories regarding time travel, and the reusing of the same AI to represent entire races.

The only thing that's real is the framing story from TATV (not even Pegasus is real, as that's the idealized version of those events). I guess it's possible that Riker and Troi, and all those people on Ten Forward (including the second Riker), are robots.