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2026-02-28 20:03 UTC

@elight@tenforward.social @virtualbri@mastodon.online @startrek@fedigroups.social I can accept the connection. It's a different Trek, but stays true to the soul of Star Trek. What bothers me is when they throw in so much anachronistic elements into a world over 1000 years in the future. We still have high school style gyms and roller board luggage we need to sit on to close... in the future? It's a little too familiar a place sometimes. Trek used to envision the future not the past.

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@elight@tenforward.social 2026-02-28 20:08

@johnofrobotz@mastodon.girolab.foo @virtualbri@mastodon.online @startrek@fedigroups.social Sure. There are anachronisms. I mentally stub my toe against those. In 08, when Ocam says, "Sick". Linguistic anachronisms often disrupt my suspension of disbelief. Yet, I realize, we have to allow for some anachronisms. How can we possibly relate to a future a millennia from our present when perhaps almost every social construct we've had has been altered or replaced so thoroughly as to be unrecognizable? What would we look like and sound like to those living in the Dark Ages?

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@semanticist@mastodon.social 2026-02-28 20:10

@johnofrobotz@mastodon.girolab.foo @elight@tenforward.social And it’s so unrealistic that someone as high profile as the captain of the federation’s flagship would be bald, like they couldn’t cure baldness by the 24th century!

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