(January 13, 2014 at 11:24 pm)Drich Wrote: You also have to remember in the trek universe society reset it self after the Third World War. It wasnt till the vulcans came did we emerge from post modern dark age.
Just saying.
Yes, I know. But, there is a span of 200 years between that event and the events of the original series. It's reasonable to expect that 200 years is way more than enough time for humanity to surpass what we did in the span of 20, especially when they've got FTL travel and the resources of thousands of worlds and civilizations to draw upon.
It's pure zeerust. Sci-fi writers have a tendency to think that the distant future is pretty much going to be the modern world with starships and aliens. One of the worst examples of that in Star Trek (and not just the original series) was how literature and music and culture seemed to stop happening in the 20th century. Everybody read Shakespeare and listened to jazz and watched plays which even we think of as classics. There's nothing about the culture which seems to overtly glorify the distant past over what would, for them, be modern culture. It's more like there simply is no modern culture. Probably because the writers were too lazy to explore the future beyond certain advances in technology relevant to space travel.
