Which Future Time Period Would You Choose to Explore?

[Sophia]

Well, being sent off to Viet Nam was no treat. Millions died there. Then there was the disco virus, which never went away.

LOL we had disco, too :-D

 

[Khatti]

But which Star Fleet Officer ever listened to that?

They didn't make programs about the people who actually obeyed orders.

 

[Megaquark]

They didn't make programs about the people who actually obeyed orders.

Can you imagine how boring those episodes would be? Typical episode: they follow orders, have no adventure, then spend the rest of the hour cataloging new species of space fungus or analyzing sensor readings to figure out how the nebula's composition varies slightly from the one they ran across in the previous episode.

Captain Clark: You can see from the spectral analysis that this nebula contains trace amounts of argon and neon.

Mr. Spork: Intriguing Captain, and very logical. Ensign Kalashnikov, please read off the wavelength of each spectral line for me again, and run us through the statistical mechanical calculations for a relativistic ideal gas so that we can compare those predictions to our observations.

Ensign Kalashnikov: *sigh* Vy do I haave to do theez for eevery neebula vee see?!

 

[Khatti]

Can you imagine how boring those episodes would be? Typical episode: they follow orders, have no adventure, then spend the rest of the hour cataloging new species of space fungus or analyzing sensor readings to figure out how the nebula's composition varies slightly from the one they ran across in the previous episode.

Perhaps I need to start a thread dedicated to all the things I dislike about the Star Trek Franchise. The Dominion War in particular annoys me.

 

[DaveC426913]

They didn't make programs about the people who actually obeyed orders.

Yup! I have heard (and made myself) this statement many times about Star Trek.

There's a hundred other starships whose tale they did not tell.

Like there's been a thousand Greek Kings beside Alexander the Great whose tale they did not tell.

 

[Eidetiken]

Hornbein did you read "Wikihistory" by Desmond Warzel?
http://www.tor.com/2011/08/31/wikihistory/

 

[Noisy Rhysling]

I'd like to see the giant crab monsters Wells wrote about.