As we celebrate Star Trek let's remember that the utopian future it portrays only happens after a war that kills most of the planet
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Star Trek predicted the world would only unite to stop Nazi supermen, then they'd turn on each other and nuke the world anyway
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Then, after nearly everyone is dead, we have world peace (forced on us by aliens)
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And this is probably the most optimistic modern sci fi franchise
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Gene Roddenberry couldn't imagine a realistic way to get to a better world without blowing it all up and starting over
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(Btw if you're a DS9 fan the reason baseball "dies" is because of the war & it's kind of fucked up baseball is the main thing Sisko mourns)
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also possibly because the greatest player ever gets winded walking 30 feet
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Hey "Buck" Bokai was an awesome future Babe Ruth. Clearly wartime conditions ended MLB's juicing problem
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ISTR Buck Bokai would be beginning his career in the minor leagues around now actually
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Headcanon: Latter day baseball is a much less athletic game because the most able bodied people have all been drafted to the front lines
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Replying to @arthur_affect
You know, I just went on a similar rant on FB about how ST is a post apocalyptic world...and I did not end up here.
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