Star Trek's "present day"

[Ray Hardgrit]

I'm curious, what do you folks personally feel to be Star Trek's 'present day' era? Like, if they made a new series in this era you wouldn't think 'oh, another prequel' or 'it's a far future story', you'd think that it was set in the 'now', or close enough.

Also, is this the same era you feel most at home in? Is it your favourite era?

 

[BillJ]

My favorite era is TOS, though I don't see it as Trek's "present".

I don't think there is a present, which points to the actual total lack of vision from the CBS powers that be.

 

[Lord Garth]

I'm curious, what do you folks personally feel to be Star Trek's 'present day' era? Like, if they made a new series in this era you wouldn't think 'oh, another prequel' or 'it's a far future story', you'd think that it was set in the 'now', or close enough.

Also, is this the same era you feel most at home in? Is it your favourite era?

With anything new they'd make, from my own personal perspective: I'd consider anything Pre-TOS to be a "Prequel", anything Post-NEM to be "Not a Prequel", and anything set in the later-DSC and SFA Era to be "Far Future". So, that would mean I think of the late-24th and early-25th Century as "Now(-ish)".

Since my favorite New Trek series is Picard and I'm in the middle of a DS9/VOY Re-Watch, that further solidifies the view I have. That's basically where I am right now.

My favorite era? That's an entirely separate question which I have an interesting relationship with. It's not so cut-and-dried. The TOS Movie Era was the era that got me into Star Trek in the first place. I'd call the TOS Era the cool/hipster era since TOS was before my time, and I was into it, but my friends weren't. And the TNG/DS9/VOY Era is the one I spent the most time with.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

I like TOS era the best.

I suppose the easiest answer is that the present day is whatever time period any given show mainly takes place in.

 

[Turtletrekker]

For one thing, the idea of there being a "present day" in Star Trek is nonsense because is not set in the present day. It has a starting point and it has its furthest out point and everything in between, but no "present". "Now" is where you are in the moment.

If I'm watching TOS the present is the 23rd century. If I'm watching TNG DS9, the present is the 24th century and if I'm watching Starfleet Academy the present is the 31st century. If they did a story set in the 19th century. That would be present. If they do a story in the 55th century, that would be present.

 

[Ceridwen]

It depends on which one I am watching.