Submitted 1 year ago by FancyLad@lemmy.world to risa@startrek.website
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“The future has so much potential, we’re closer to Star Trek every day” - Me, about 20 years ago
Go watch DS9’s “Past Tense” two parter (S3E11/12). Star Trek is surprisingly bang-on in predicting what the world would look like in 2023.
Unfortunately I don’t think that we will have the Gabriel Bell Riots next year, but we’ll see.
Do I need context for DS9 for this? I never got around to watching any of it.
Being able to identify the characters might help some, but otherwise no. It's a two part capsule episode
Not really. It’s not part of ds9’s big arc. Little bottle time travel episodes.
I’m not sure, but the basic set-up is DS9 is a space station positioned near a planet wherein one species has very recently freed itself from slavery to another species. It’s in the ass-end of nowhere and is seemingly a quiet posting until a wormhole leading to the unexplored gamma quadrant opens nearby, drawing all kinds of attention. That’s all I really remember and it’s probably largely inaccurate, lol.
It’s a time travel episode, so no, not really.
Sanctuary districts
Eugenics war
WW3
I was imagining more
Extreme weather events cause mass migration
Violent conflicts erupt due to displaced people, famine and water … the conflicts are just one step short of a war (it’s violent enough for many people to be killed but doesn’t grow into a general war … like Palestine on a continental scale)
Society breaks down in incremental steps over about 50 years
When did the Zuck start to look like the most decent person?
When there was brief moment of hope he’d internally decapitate Musk in a cage match.
Comparing him to Musk in this way … very minimally makes anyone look decent.
It probably helps A LOT that he doesn’t seem to care whether people like him or not. Can’t say the same for the other two, and that’s what drives them to keep doing the stupidest shit imaginable.
So it’s obvious that we are in a dystopian timeline in which some terrible satire writer has created one of the most unrealistic depictions of the future possible. So in the prime timeline what do you think the future is like?
It’s like a tree on a crisp fall day.
It’s a timeline written by a bunch of high school juniors that had the whole year to write a play for years end but decided to wait until the last two weeks before the show to get their shit together.
No this is more like written the day before on bath salts and Adderall
I’m not sure what the hell I just watched, but it sure was catchy lol
Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 1 year ago
Did you forget all the horrible shit that happens in the star trek timeline between 2000 and the founding of the federation in 2161?
BrutalPoseidon@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The Bell Riots also start in 2024. Oh boy, it’s going to be a wild few years.
r00ty@kbin.life 1 year ago
Well, I was thinking about Trump's plan to make homelessness illegal and offer "offenders" the option of moving to a rehabilitation "tent city". It seems like an eerily similar plan.
Tammo-Korsai@kbin.social 1 year ago
Don't forget what's in store for Ireland in 2024.
digger@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I came here to say that. They start in September, so we’ve got a little less than a year. Though, I do wonder how a true first contact would affect us.
FancyLad@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This is what I said to my little after watching the DS9 2-parter about the Bell Riots
Uranium3006@kbin.social 1 year ago
It was pretty spot on. All they gotta do is put a wall around skid row
1simpletailer@startrek.website 1 year ago
Yeah Gene Roddenberry could see the direction capitalism was taking humanity, his optimism was that enough of us would be able to survive the collapse and we would rebuild better in its aftermath. That part remains to be seen, but Star Trek has always been collapse aware.
Stampela@startrek.website 1 year ago
How is nobody doing 2+2 and figuring out we’re the “mirror universe”? At best.