Comment by watwut
15 days ago
I suggest you rewatch star trek. Plot and complexity wise, they are basically childrend stories plus technobable.
15 days ago
I suggest you rewatch star trek. Plot and complexity wise, they are basically childrend stories plus technobable.
Perhaps you should rewatch Star Trek as well. TOS back in 1966 had rather a lot of technical marvels that were ridiculous at the time that became commonplace tech that we take for granted in 2026: electronic tablets, pocketable communication devices that could reach a ship in orbit, a computer that could be talked to and and respond with at least limited intelligence, orbit to surface sensors, etc. Certainly most of the concepts weren't original to Star Trek but the series' popularity embedded them in the global cultural consciousness.
The fear of humans being replaced by computers (TOS: The Ultimate Computer) was speculative but also germane back then and is perhaps even more germane today.
Maybe if we reverse the polarity of the plot holes it will make more sense.