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I think that’s about the time that interplanetary space travel starts in Star Trek. I always thought that’s way too early and the whole time should be starting
by shoto_io 5y ago
I think that’s about the time that interplanetary space travel starts in Star Trek. I always thought that’s way too early and the whole time should be starting 1,000 years later.
- guerrilla 5y agoSeems like Blade Runner did even worse.
- shoto_io 5y agoIndeed. I don’t get it though. Why not push every timeline out by a safety margin of hundreds/thousand years?
- dane-pgp 5y agoPersonally I would have a hard time suspending disbelief if a story set in 2200 didn't have super-human AI and all diseases cured. Similarly there should be no pollution or over-population, at least in first world countries. For humanity to avoid achieving those things, there would have to be some significant barriers to progress that we don't know about yet, or a fairly disastrous collapse, which would limit the possible stories that could be told. I suppose that setting a story thousands of years into the future allows there to have been multiple collapses and renaissances, but I'm not convinced that such a path is as likely as a permanent collapse or reaching some sort of uninterruptible paradise state.
- guerrilla 5y agoI just think of it as an alternate timeline now
- shoto_io 5y agoNice. That’s great trick
- another-dave 5y agoGiven only 58 years from the first flight to getting someone in space, they probably thought another 100 years of innovation sounded OK! Crazy looking back to think that Star Trek originally aired before the moon landing.