Comment on We could be going towards Star Trek like earth, but instead we're going for Star Wars like democracies

• anindefinitearticle@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Yeah, right after the wealth inequality and homelessness crisis and plagues of the first half of the 2020s.

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  • TheRealKuni@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Is that really part of Star Trek lore? Because…that’s terrifying if so.

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    • anindefinitearticle@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Look up the Bell Riots.

      Great stand-alone two-parter from Deep Space 9 about the 2020s.

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      • graff@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Sadly the Irish Reunification didn’t happen last year

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• aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Vulcans would have to be real. Their presence is what makes humanity realize there’s a better way to live.

  In fact Cochrane himself states that he built warp drive just to get rich. His intention was to jumpstart capitalism in a post-war world that had no functioning economy.

  If Vulcans landed on our Earth after WWIII, we would just kill them and create the Mirror Universe instead.

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  • GuyFawkes@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That would certainly track with the rest of this timeline.

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• lordnikon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Yeah I was hoping for WW3 but we just got climate collapse instead. No star trek for us.

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