#there's an imagination gap! you already made it as futury as possible! you lack the courage to get weirder with it!

[thedreadvampy]

also listen I genuinely do think Disco S3 is real good star trek despite my frustrationposting over the finale's politics

but hey listen I do think the precept of Discovery going 930 years in the future and IMMEDIATELY becoming the most important crew in the Federation fleet is so fucking funny and delightful because listen

listen

if a 11th century longship crew arrived at Navy HQ and I was in command I feel like I wouldn't break them up or anything but I might like. Encourage them to take a couple of months to retrain and learn what like. Electricity and the internet and shortwave radio and the internal combustion engine and movable type are. before I send them flying around as our flagship.

I just think when people timeskip that far we should acknowledge that 930 years ago in Britain folks were speaking Old English and living in motte and bailey castles and subsistence farming and hunting wild boar and making illuminated manuscripts. It's only like 200 years between now and the golden age of the Federation and they fit WW3, the collapse of capitalism and the establishment of a thriving intergalactic empire in there! I just think there should be a bigger culture gap in a millennium! The insta-transports and magic computers are grand and all but I'm going to need to see at least one ENTIRELY new and unseen-before tech that everyone from the 23rd century crew is just like whaaaaaaaat. the fuck is that.

#red said #this is the problem with timeskips in scifi #there's an imagination gap! you already made it as futury as possible! you lack the courage to get weirder with it!