You say that, but Star Trek Earth 2025 - 2050 didn't exactly go great, even if they managed to sort things out in the end. It took them at least a whole century to really clean up their act.
this post was submitted on 27 Jan 2025
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Yeah, were due a third world war first.
I was just thinking about how when this episode aired, it was only 20ish years after WW2 ended.
This was recent history to everyone, and they were already making social commentary about it here, as well as the episode where they go to the literal Nazi planet.
9/11 is further in the past for us than WW2 was for them.
You take that back! 9/11 was last month. I'm not old.
Fuck that I'm not going back to high school. You're old
Given how things have been going for most of the western world I wonder:
Where can I sign up for the Eugenics shots?
If I'm going to live in an authoritarian hellscape I'm doing it with genetic enhancements or not at all.
You've been genetically enhanced! ..... to work 18 hours a day in a dilithium mine!
That sounds suspiciously like hormone therapy. Banned! /s
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I KNEW this was the mirror universe. I'm making a break for it you guys.
How can he walk through it, yet break it with his fist? I call shenanigans!
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People, it is with great sadness I come to the conclusion that we are the mirror universe.
If Vulcans landed, we would absolutely board their ship and take everything we can.
Kill them, board the ship, take everything we can, attempt to reverse engineer it, find tech that could make life instantly better for over 90% of the population to end world hunger and instantly cure countless diseases injuries and ailments...but instead they patent it and hold back 100 years of progress while some people get obscenely rich
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We are the Mirror Universe, not the Prime universe
We're in a third alternate universe where we get the Bell Riots, WWIII, nuclear apocalypse, authoritarian government, uncontrolled eugenics programs, no warp engine technology and no Vulcans or alien species coming to save us from ourselves ..... oh yeah but the Borg arrive too.
Honestly, the Borg arriving would be something of a mercy. I'd join.
you will have no hopes, no personality
I knew half the women on Bumble were Borg!
me_irl for sure lol
But the Borg of this universe can't communicate with eachother. The queen can send orders and the Borg can send up responses or thoughts, but the queen largely ignores non-beneficial thoughts. But because of this, there is a queen each subqueen can send communications to and receive orders from. All the way up to the "CEO queen" who does the bidding of the actual collective "board of queens".
The more powerful queens have simply survived longer and assimilated more, and have spawned enough queens to destroy rival colonies.
Instead of being referred to as the "Borg Collective" they call themselves "Hardworking Individuals".
I bet we invent the Borg
I'm pretty sure that's what Musk is trying for with his brain implants.
According to my armchair unlicensed psychiatry, Musk would absolutely flip the “on” switch on the Borg.
The main reason is that I think he wants to be remembered more than anything. He’s realized he won’t have time to find immortality or load himself into a computer, so having people speak his name and see his face for centuries is the next best thing. Does not matter if it’s for bad reasons.
He has also talked about the importance of preserving the light of consciousness. The Borg are perfect for this.
And then in general, he seems to be on the extra-sociopathic end of the tech bro spectrum, where the point of a life well lived is productivity and accumulation of assets, and emotions are a weakness. He would probably get all hot and bothered at the idea of being able to assimilate all life forms, share their useful technical knowledge across the collective, and summarily discard all the cultural distractions from the Great Productive Mission.
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The Bell riots never happen in this timeline
They’ll happen. Just later. And worse.
Just like the eugenics wars.
We ended up with the Alternative future, whoopsie.
Can somebody reverse the polarity or something already!? 😜
Somebody needs to take Klingonstopher Lyod's bird of prey back in time and fix this already.
Ugh, fine. Here's my pain amplifier.
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