Who is watching StarTrek in the Future?

[Nerys Myk]

Clearly Boimler and rest of the Cerritos lower deckers all watch Star Trek

Nah, they just read a lot of logs.

 

[Finn]

There’s Star Trek short stories that show Kirk & co traveling to the sixties, telling Roddenberry and the actors everything and swooping off again. Trek may exist within Trek and just not get referenced.

Is there a Star Wars novel where someone who came from the Star Wars Galaxy met with George Lucas and told him all about his home galaxy and the Empire that once existed millennia ago, back in the 70s?

 

[Nerys Myk]

There’s Star Trek short stories that show Kirk & co traveling to the sixties, telling Roddenberry and the actors everything and swooping off again. Trek may exist within Trek and just not get referenced.

I thought they went to a different reality/universe.

 

[Qonundrum]

Instead of black-and-white, it's orange-and-teal.

That's my line!

 

[Greg Cox]

Captain Proton actually has one generation up on Star Trek. Four generations instead of three! There's the 1930s version, the '60s version, the '90s version, and the 2020s version.

So, unfortunately, all the purists are dead.

But . . . but which version is CANON?

 

[Lord Garth]

But . . . but which version is CANON?

I don't know. Whenever I think of the original, I get that feeling of Depression.

 

[The Wormhole]

In The Walking Dead zombies flat out didn't exist. Nobody had heard of them or seen the like on TV. The same HAS to be true of Star Trek, otherwise everyone would be going on about how the current issue was just like a Star Trek episode. And it'd make it really, really stupid.

On the other hand, Doctor Who once very nearly did reference itself in an episode. Remembrance of the Daleks, a Seventh Doctor serial from the 1980s takes place in November 1963, when Doctor Who first premiered. At one point in the episode, there's a TV on and the announcer says

ANNOUNCER: This is BBC television. The time is a quarter past five and Saturday viewing continues with an adventure in the new science fiction series, Doc

The scene cuts before the announcer can finish.

Although, Doctor Who tie-in material has in the years since retconned this as a fictional show called Doctor Omega, basically an in-universe reenactment of the Doctor's adventures like Wormhole X-Treme on Stargate SG-1.

 

[Jack Wolfe]

More importantly, who watches the watchers?

Most importantly, who's watching my beer? This fuse ain't gonna last forever.

 

[Nerys Myk]

But . . . but which version is CANON?

 

[publiusr]

Captain Proton actually has one generation up on Star Trek. Four generations instead of three! There's the 1930s version,

That’s the best…the fins have a convex cut-out, not concave.

 

[somebuddyX]

On the other hand, Doctor Who once very nearly did reference itself in an episode. Remembrance of the Daleks, a Seventh Doctor serial from the 1980s takes place in November 1963, when Doctor Who first premiered. At one point in the episode, there's a TV on and the announcer says

The scene cuts before the announcer can finish.

Although, Doctor Who tie-in material has in the years since retconned this as a fictional show called Doctor Omega, basically an in-universe reenactment of the Doctor's adventures like Wormhole X-Treme on Stargate SG-1.

And Moffat's idea for the 50th that the Cushing Doctor Who was an in-universe film based on the real adventures of the Doctor.

 

[Shawnster]

The Franz Joseph technical manual was transmitted back in time about the late 1960s or early 1970s to a military computer from Starfleet in the future 23rd century. Says so in the front of the book

 

[at Quark's]

Data, in the TNG episode "The Neutral Zone", states, in their universe, and succinctly, when television stopped being "a thing". The cutoff, in Startrekland, is 2040.

In an early TNG episode, Picard talked of a personal relaxation light and a book, and Riker had that hologram-emitting dish with two ladies playing instruments. Thoe, holodeck, et al, replaced outdated medium such as televised plays or even video games, though the holodeck does add a new dimension to "first person shooter", or seeing solitaire cards fly up in front of you - those examples are still underwhelming, given what the holodeck device can potentially do. See "The Big Goodbye" for a better one.

I wouldn't be surprised to learn there is still a form of 'streaming' though - On Voyager for example we had 'a briefing with Neelix'. Now, being isolated, they had to create their own entertainment, but still I would be surprised to learn that such a thing didn't exist in the Federation at all.

Other than that, probably most entertainment is in the form of interactive holodeck programs, and I'd expect there to be other 24th century variants of things we do today (sports, concerts, etc), too.

I'd be more interested in the question what their science fiction would be about - in whatever form it exists (books/holodecks/whatever).

 

[1001001]

I'd be more interested in the question what their science fiction would be about - in whatever form it exists (books/holodecks/whatever).

Flotter and the Tree Monster

 

[Markonian]

I'd be more interested in the question what their science fiction would be about - in whatever form it exists (books/holodecks/whatever).

In the Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations novels, it’s explained that Time Travel is the major form of sci-fi, because it’s still nearly unbelievable in the 23rd century. When the Federation sets up the first time travel department, they invite a popular ti-fi author to advise them.