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.
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.
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!
Just my luck I’m either in the Control group and get the placebo, or I get in super early trials and end up with the Kane Madness
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!
There’s a revival group out there that keeps rules updated. I was very excited to use my old cards, except that they’re all in the first series of expansion packs, and those are considered badly balanced and taken out of the game completely.