Reconciling Trek history and "Our" History

[Smellincoffee]

Star Trek is supposed to be about 'our' future. Its past landmarks are our future events. Of course, as Trek ages, its political 'history' seems more unreal. For instance, we never sent colonists to Mars and Saturn in the 1990s: it was not a space age, more a high-upper-atmosphere age. Authors like Greg Cox have tried, and admirably, to reconcile our "real" history with that of Trek's, but will there be a point where they give up and just decide that Star Trek is an alternate reality? We're getting closer to that with the Abramsverse, it seems.

 

[Idran]

We've already passed that point, I think. Space travel especially has pretty well stagnated compared to Trek's. And as for the books, while Rings of Time is still a bit in the future, there's no chance we'll reach what was presented there in just 4 years, so I think we can mark that as a point where the books essentially acknowledge the divergence. Unless Greg Cox is just extremely optimistic, of course.

(Of course, with 2053 looming closer every day, I'm personally grateful for the skew. )

 

[Kor]

Trek history and real history diverged thousands of years ago when it turned out that the Greek gods were not actually powerful aliens from outer space.

Kor

 

[Christopher]

Trek history and real history diverged thousands of years ago when it turned out that the Greek gods were not actually powerful aliens from outer space.

Also when the Greek gods were worshipped about 2000 years earlier in Trek history than in real history...

 

[Jinn]

And the Progenitors/Ancient Humanoids doesn't seem to be canon in Real-Life.

 

[CRM-114]

I liked Greg Cox's Khan series, even though I didn't competely buy into the "secret history" premise. I don't even try to reconcile Star Trek's internal history with real history; they already diverge too much.

The way I look at it, Star Trek is a future, but not the future.

 

[Greg Cox]

We've already passed that point, I think. Space travel especially has pretty well stagnated compared to Trek's. And as for the books, while Rings of Time is still a bit in the future, there's no chance we'll reach what was presented there in just 4 years, so I think we can mark that as a point where the books essentially acknowledge the divergence. Unless Greg Cox is just extremely optimistic, of course.

(Of course, with 2053 looming closer every day, I'm personally grateful for the skew. )

You know, I felt under some pressure to write The Rings of Time because the window of opportunity for putting that Saturn mission sometime in "our" near future was rapidly shrinking, so I knew I had to write that book before it was too late.

Meanwhile, of course, we've got those homeless riots in San Francisco coming up just a few years from now . . ....

 

[Jinn]

Meanwhile, of course, we've got those homeless riots in San Francisco coming up just a few years from now . . ....

Soooo.... DS9 predicted Trumps election more than 10 years before it happened.

 

[Leto_II]

And the Progenitors/Ancient Humanoids doesn't seem to be canon in Real-Life.

Star Trek would never lie to me!!!