Star Trek Needs to be Closer to Home

[Tarek71]

It's true that contemporary (23rd century) Earth is never seen in TOS. Of course, the idea for a Trek through the stars. Boldly going to where they have never been before. New life and new civilizations.​

If anything, getting away from that makes it less like Star Trek. Andorians, Vulcans, etc. were new to audiences then. We should see new species, and new civilizations, not a concentration mostly on the ones already well known.​

 

[T'Girl]

We also see what Pike accepts as an accurate depiction of Earth in "The Menagerie," in the picnic scene. That's the only view of 23rd century Earth in TOS that I'm aware of.

If you add in the TOS movies we saw 23rd century San Fransisco and Yosemite.