• The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldM
    35·
    11 days ago

    I was just thinking about how when this episode aired, it was only 20ish years after WW2 ended.

    This was recent history to everyone, and they were already making social commentary about it here, as well as the episode where they go to the literal Nazi planet.

    9/11 is further in the past for us than WW2 was for them.

  • teft@lemmy.world
    282·
    11 days ago

    Where can I sign up for the Eugenics shots?

    If I’m going to live in an authoritarian hellscape I’m doing it with genetic enhancements or not at all.

  • T156@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    10 days ago

    You say that, but Star Trek Earth 2025 - 2050 didn’t exactly go great, even if they managed to sort things out in the end. It took them at least a whole century to really clean up their act.

  • aeronmelon@lemmy.world
    14·
    10 days ago

    People, it is with great sadness I come to the conclusion that we are the mirror universe.

    If Vulcans landed, we would absolutely board their ship and take everything we can.

    • Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world
      7·
      10 days ago

      Kill them, board the ship, take everything we can, attempt to reverse engineer it, find tech that could make life instantly better for over 90% of the population to end world hunger and instantly cure countless diseases injuries and ailments…but instead they patent it and hold back 100 years of progress while some people get obscenely rich

      • Zink@programming.dev
        1·
        10 days ago

        If you believe some of the UAP testimony, the government has actual craft and biological remains.

        It’s difficult to get excited about though because our timeline seems too boring and dumb for that.

        …and if it IS true, I think you are correct about how a huge benefit to humanity would be held back. But just as likely as the profit motive would be turning it into weapons rather than using it to revolutionize society.

        • Wogi@lemmy.world
          5·
          10 days ago

          No they don’t.

          I’m sorry, aliens are flying here from light years away or other dimensions in the most advanced space craft known to exist, only to crash and get caught almost immediately?

          I’m sure they helped build the pyramids too

          • Zink@programming.dev
            2·
            10 days ago

            I didn’t say I believed them, lol.

            But let’s be real here. These hypothetical aliens share the same timeline as us. They would absolutely be the ones to master FTL travel just in time to drive into a rock on the other end.

          • ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.world
            21·
            10 days ago

            Going interstellar distances just to crash into a tiny rock would be some impressive fuckery. Murphy couldn’t even envision that.

    • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
      15·
      11 days ago

      We’re in a third alternate universe where we get the Bell Riots, WWIII, nuclear apocalypse, authoritarian government, uncontrolled eugenics programs, no warp engine technology and no Vulcans or alien species coming to save us from ourselves … oh yeah but the Borg arrive too.

          • Zink@programming.dev
            3·
            10 days ago

            According to my armchair unlicensed psychiatry, Musk would absolutely flip the “on” switch on the Borg.

            The main reason is that I think he wants to be remembered more than anything. He’s realized he won’t have time to find immortality or load himself into a computer, so having people speak his name and see his face for centuries is the next best thing. Does not matter if it’s for bad reasons.

            He has also talked about the importance of preserving the light of consciousness. The Borg are perfect for this.

            And then in general, he seems to be on the extra-sociopathic end of the tech bro spectrum, where the point of a life well lived is productivity and accumulation of assets, and emotions are a weakness. He would probably get all hot and bothered at the idea of being able to assimilate all life forms, share their useful technical knowledge across the collective, and summarily discard all the cultural distractions from the Great Productive Mission.

  • But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world
    46·
    11 days ago

    Pretty sure Roddenberry himself realized later how unrealistic his original vision was. Humans are always humans, from our beginning to our end, we will always have the same flaws and issues and prejudices, and no amount of technology is gonna fix that

    • pulsewidth@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 days ago

      I mean, not long ago on a evolutionary timescale we were hunter-gatherers, living only in small familial groups. People have changed a lot and we’ll continue to, there’s no reason to believe our current flaws are inescapable. That’s just defeatism and apathy