Star Trek is one of those things that will probably be on tv in some form for as long as television continues to exist. We give it maybe 10 to 15 more years. After that we'll either have holodecks of our own, sponsored by Gillet (holograms that feel as real as your shave) OR we'll all have been killed in the Nuclear winter of 2025. Either way we have it on good authority that we won't have to live our lives as we have been, for better or worse. Sometimes you just need a vacation from life. A permanent vacation.
Anyway, while that option isn't on the table, what do we have to escape from our boring lives? We could go backwards into the realm of dungeons and dragons or we could go forward, into space. The final front ear. The kind that sits in between your eyes like a radar dish and lets you hear your neighbors cheating on each other.
Star Trekhas always presented a future not free of conflict, but at least working toward a better universe. And as we lurch ever forward through time, we can really appreciate the fantasy as that future becomes less and less realistic.
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