When I was a kid I loved this show because...
...it all seemed remotely plausible.
Now it's just plain ludicrous.
...it all seemed remotely plausible.
Now it's just plain ludicrous.
Agreed. I think Roddenberry and the other original creators were very technically minded and put a lot of thought into setting the rules of the technology and then adhered to them.
Now in the Abrams/Kurtzman era, the tech is just magical bullshit that does whatever the plot needs it to.
No I mean all of them. Old and new.
shareBecause back then the producers were educated and utilized science advisors.
Now we have producers placed due to quotas based on race, gender, and ignorant flavor of the week Twitter movements.
Entertainment and culture is entering the dark ages.
Remember what Barack Obama said. Any sufficiently advanced technology would be indistinguishable from magic. Many things we once thought were implausible or impossible turned out to be not only plausible but real. Obama is maybe the wisest man in the whole world.
shareSo true so true! LOL
He is the Magic Negro don't cha know
Arthur C Clarke is generally credited with "... advanced technology would be indistinguishable from magic.". Personally I have a nagging feeling I've come across it elsewhere - but exactly where eludes me.
shareI'm sure he got that from Obama.
shareSo Clarke was not so much predicting the future as stealing ideas from it? hmmm, sneaky.
shareProbably. A lot of people have stolen from the great Obama. It doesn't bother him, though. He has no ego.
shareYou're joking around aren't you? Obama was great at fooling gullible people and nothing else.
https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/arthur_c_clarke_101182
He probably said that years before he died in 2008. The year BO won.
I am joking. Obama is the ultimate charlatan.
shareOk. Funny how only after you said you were joking it seemed obvious.
That's because there really are those who idolize him like that somehow.
There were black pastors out there calling obummer the "new messiah" like he was jesus.
https://youtu.be/d8Ueu6wlZNk?t=66
Do you Have to bring politics into everything? Come on, this site is supposed to be chat about movies and tv shows and you blast your politics into every corner. Annoying.
shareThe saying that “Nothing is impossible” sounds nice and there is certainly a large number of things that are possible. But the saying is incorrect. It is the ability to be able to rule out things that cannot be true that gives mathematics and science it’s power along with predicting what is true.
shareWhat Sci Fi novel did Barack Obama write that in?
shareObama never had an original idea in his life. He's an empty suit.
shareThe OP makes no sense because the "remotely plausible" became our reality.
We have computers, stun guns, MRIs and CAT scans, iPADS, communicators, voice recognition, automatic doors, end of Cold War, universal translators, etc. The future is now.
No dummy I was referring to the idea of a huge craft traveling through the galaxy and visiting other worlds. Not gadgets.
shareAnd why is it so implausible to you to have a huge intergallaxy vessel?
shareBecause it is.
Now if you want to ignore relativity and believe in warp speed, go ahead. Why should I care?
Actually, Warp Drive is consistent with relativity
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive
Regardless, there are things called generation ships, no one said you had to get to a destination in less than 100 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_ship
of Mr. Spock.
shareWhat parts are just plain ludicrous?
shareLots of things. There was a united humanity (pretty much) and sex and racial equality had been attained. So that humanity could concentrate on getting to the stars. With sex equality, I liked the way that the female crew members dressed. They looked very chic and feminine, and had just as important jobs as their male counterparts.
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