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I want to get off Mr. Bones' Wild Ride (lemmy.world)
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"The future has so much potential, we're closer to Star Trek every day" - Me, about 20 years ago

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[–] 32 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Go watch DS9's "Past Tense" two parter (S3E11/12). Star Trek is surprisingly bang-on in predicting what the world would look like in 2023.

Unfortunately I don't think that we will have the Gabriel Bell Riots next year, but we'll see.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Do I need context for DS9 for this? I never got around to watching any of it.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago*

    Not really. It's not part of ds9's big arc. Little bottle time travel episodes. Guess knowing that the Romulan's have lent Starfleet a cloaking device for the Defiant might help you not get into a canon mess over some of the technobable reasons for the time travel.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I'm not sure, but the basic set-up is DS9 is a space station positioned near a planet wherein one species has very recently freed itself from slavery to another species. It's in the ass-end of nowhere and is seemingly a quiet posting until a wormhole leading to the unexplored gamma quadrant opens nearby, drawing all kinds of attention. That's all I really remember and it's probably largely inaccurate, lol.

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