Part of the thing that's left mostly somewhat unsaid of the whole fictional arc of the Star Trek universe is that there was a full-exchange nuclear war, which l

Part of the thing that's left mostly somewhat unsaid of the whole fictional arc of the Star Trek universe is that there was a full-exchange nuclear war, which led (IIRC - I am not a major trekkie, though I prefer it to Star Wars - each has its place, though) to the contact with the Vulcans. Then again, I am not sure that if we actually went through a full scale nuclear exchange, that in the end if we would change socially. I have a feeling that rather than change for the better, humanity would change for the worse. In that vision, "Mad Max" would be a utopia in comparison.