The Federation in the far future
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The story you link says nothing about billions of years into the future, but rather billions of lightyears from where they were.
EDIT: Never mind. I should have read the whole thing before leaping to conclusions.
Read down to the twist. Turns out the distant galaxy is ours, and the star is ours, but billions of years in the future.
That undeveloped episode reminds me of the SNW story Our Million Year mission.
Not read that one, however the memory beta opening was enough to put me off.
"the crew of the Mega-Federation starship USS UberEnterprise (NCC-1701-∞), under joint command of James T. Kirk and Jean-Luc Picard"
Don't let that fool you. It's a very well written story, despite the inclusion of Kirk and Picard holograms.
What if in the far future Federation death and aging has effectively be eliminated at least for humanoid?
There are some indications that in the relatively near future aging and cellular death in humans will be conquered. Sure you could still die in a terrible accidents or in battle. But would a Star Trek series really be that different if aging was conquered?
We're talking well past personal life prolongation...a billion years is a complete extinction timeframe. Life has only existed on Earth for 3.5 billion years.
Humanity has evolved into Salamander-type creatures and harnessed the thought drive. Dream Captain Kir-card of NuF3d Digifleet leads the NTRpryz-∞ on a 47-parck mission of discovery into the Overmind.
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That doesn't mean extinction of the human race is inevitable or even likely.
Denial of our eventual fate...even cockroaches haven't been around for a billion years.
I'm not familiar with the technological civilization built by the cockroaches either.
Technology is irrelevant...or is more likely to hasten our own extinction. Cockroaches have already been around a lot longer than humans, and speculation has it that they'll outlast us as a species.
Based on what?
I'm not talking about RL but Trek IU.
I'm not thinking real life or Trek in universe.
I'm thinking about the advances and changes you could plausibly have in a science fiction series and still make it watchable by someone in say the year 2030.
If you want to go Trek In Universe, just look at all the advanced technologies and abilities that were shown or remotely hinted at in the Original Series alone. Assuming all them became feasible a Star Trek series would become probably radically unwatchable.
Think of a series where the entire crew (and all the other humans) taking advantage of the mineral used to given the Platonians superhuman telekinetic powers? They wouldn't need weapons of any kind. The Platonian leader managed to batter the Enterprise through his powers all alone while he was suffering a raging fever.
Based on the patterns we've seen on Star Trek, I would predict one of a few distant futures in Trek:
1. Humanity (or humanity's descendents, per what Crewman Daniels implied) evolves into yet another insufferable energy life form like the Q or the Organians.
2. Humanity is effectively eradicated by war/disease/etc - AKA, the classical reasons. Maybe some survive as specimens kept by another species, or as colonists disassociated enough from the bulk of humanity that they forget who and what they were and exist as what amounts to a different species.
3. One of humanity's adversaries achieves the superbeing status mentioned in #1 above, and wipes humanity out like Kevin Uxbridge did to the Husnock.
4. All of the above, plus every other possibility, however minute, including humanity surviving and remaining more or less like we're used to from 24th century Trek - due to the (almost?) infinite number of parallel universes that exist.
1. Humanity (or humanity's descendents, per what Crewman Daniels implied) evolves into yet another insufferable energy life form like the Q or the Organians.
2. Humanity is effectively eradicated by war/disease/etc - AKA, the classical reasons. Maybe some survive as specimens kept by another species, or as colonists disassociated enough from the bulk of humanity that they forget who and what they were and exist as what amounts to a different species.
3. One of humanity's adversaries achieves the superbeing status mentioned in #1 above, and wipes humanity out like Kevin Uxbridge did to the Husnock.
4. All of the above, plus every other possibility, however minute, including humanity surviving and remaining more or less like we're used to from 24th century Trek - due to the (almost?) infinite number of parallel universes that exist.
I wonder if the Federation goes the way of the dysfunctional mouse utopia?
I'd forgotten about that. Seems likely to happen on Earth long before the Vulcan's pass through, and by the 24th Century Earth will be a Romulan outpost. No federation at all.
1 billion years in unimaginable - dinosaurs roamed the earth 0.65% of that time ago. If it was a year, mankind as a civilisation has existed for the length of a commercial break.
However in 1 billion years the last remnant of our civilisation will just about still exist - it's about this time that the golden records on voyager will have broken down and no longer be recoverable.
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