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I mean, looking on the bright side: Even the Federation universe had to go through two civil wars, World War III, and the eugenics war to get to where they ended up.
We’re getting neither … we’re getting this instead …
No, that’s not what we’re getting. Say what you will about the Terran Confederation, at least they built a space empire under a unified common goal. At least those humans were outrageously evil.
Instead, what we’re getting is this:
I guess the silver lining is we’ll kill ourselves off before we ever make it off the planet to spread our violence elsewhere.
Fuck yeah! I believe in us!
what we wanted:
what we got:
i will weep for the futures lost, but i will not weep for getting mirror kiraStrange that the Space Force logo is a combination of both…
Not sure how they can just steal the Star Trek logo tho…
The original NASA logo was the inspiration for the star trek insignia.
So really this is more like a nod to a nodder.
You’re a nodder
Your mum’s a nodder
And your children will be nodders!
(I read the whole exchange in Michael Caine’s voice.)
Sure, but compare NASA next to Starfleet / Star Trek next to Space Force. Two of them look remarkably similar…
You say that, but we seem to be at least on track to a better 2050 than they had.
We’ve not had a eugenics war, drug-controlled supersoldiers, nuclear conflagration, nor a mutant genocide campaign, and we may not get the second and fourth.
Yeah in the Star Trek universe they praised Elon Musk
Guess we have already split off from that timeline. Unless of course the fascists will rewrite history.
I feel like people overblow the Elon Musk reference. Even putting aside the plot twist, it’s been nearly 200 years from now, and they had the whole nuclear apocalypse in the early 2000s, which would only further muddle things.
People today praise Thomas Edison, and he was not that much better in many respects.
It’s entirely reasonable for someone in the 23rd century to lose some of the details that we might have today.
Elon Musk still has time for a redemption arc. He might very well be the the person who finally kills Elon Musk
The word Utopia translates to “No place”.
There is no such thing as a utopia. The point of stories about utopias is just to get people to think about how to improve things. Not to make people upset they aren’t living in a place that can never exist.
The world presented by Star Trek isn’t telling you how things should be, how could it? It’s wildly inconsistent about how things work, like do they have money or not? It seems it’s just conveying they have an ideal future economy, but since the writers don’t know what that will be, it’s deliberately vague.
The point is to show various problems we have today from the perspective of people in a better future so we can understand that our problems as solvable and motivate us to solve them.
If you’re giving up on solving the problems we have today because they seem impossible to solve or you believe they should magically solve themselves, then you’re missing the point of Star Trek.
That map projection though
Make. Greenland. Bigger.
RIP Australia.
*squinting*
We’re getting the Might and Magic devs? Is that why Q was a secret boss in MM6?
Yep, were stuck with this shitty timeline
I mean, the Star Trek timeline was incredibly shitty for humans up until it wasn’t.
True. But eventually human empathy succeeded. Call me pessimistic – the barista sure likes to – but I just don’t see that happening for this timeline!
Did you see the gallery at the trial in Encounter at Farpoint? Mid-21st humanity seems right on track for Star Trek future.
did i see it‽ where do you think i get fashion tips?
We have to go through at least two major conflicts first, ww3 and the eugenics wars, according to trek.
At least we are on track for those i suppose 🤧
Right! Maybe that’s why all these tech bros are embracing Dark Enlightenment. Trying to bring it about way sooner than makes sense.
Didn’t we go through it already like, last week?
No, that was the Bell Riots. WWIII is scheduled to start in 2026.
the bell riots were last century
Call me pessimistic – the barista sure likes to
Highpoint of Hawkgirl’s day, in fact!
Is that Ben Aflec?
Nah, that’s Hawkman. Ben Aflac is Duckman.
WTF is a Hawkman? Isn’t that Billy Chrystal in that movie Birdman?
Nah, a Hawkman is a semi-immortal Egyptian who keeps getting reincarnated only to be murdered by the same jerk again and again for thousands of years.
Also: the worst character of the main ones in Legends of Tomorrow
What does that mean? What’s the second icon?
Explained here: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Terran_Empire
Oh I thought this was a StarCraft reference
That reminds me, does anyone know where I could get an agonizer repaired for cheap?
O’Brien can fix anything, and does his own Quality Assurance, so is extra cheap
It’s ok. It just means we can cross over to the brighter side.
Orca approved.
Free
WillyLorca!
We don’t know that yet. First we have to go through the nuclear war before we can get to Starfleet. We’re speed running it now.
Shouldn’t the Eugenics Wars have already happened?
Depends. SNW retconned it and said the Temporal Cold War pushed it up.
