I think one of the things that influences a lot of XI fic (and excuses a lot of the anachronisms with the TOS timeline) is that they built in an excuse for technology to be awesome. I think the Eugenics Wars are just as possible now as they were to people in the 1960s, because people haven't changed as much as they want to think they have. I think that World War III could still happen in the aftermath. So I think Khan could still be a plot that would work. And there's less reason to use treknobabble to explain a macguffin, because we have better knowledge of a lot of the things that were only speculated on in the past
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I don't think social networking would completely disappear. Although not in the sense that we know them. Maybe everything is voice/video logged by that time similar to the ship logs etc.
I don't think social networking would completely disappear. That being said, if one was on a starship I bet they have a lot of restrictions etc in place because wtf, how can we stealthily hide from the Romulan's Chekov if you immediately tweet "Hiding behind Saturn's Moon. Romulans will never see us coming. LOL"
OK maybe that is a silly example but I mean similar to how when the police are trying to contain some shit that's going down they sometimes ask bystanders not to tweet about it.
And a lot of corporations block things like Facebook because they don't want their employees wasting company time.
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I don't think social networking would completely disappear. Although not in the sense that we know them. Maybe everything is voice/video logged by that time similar to the ship logs etc.
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OK maybe that is a silly example but I mean similar to how when the police are trying to contain some shit that's going down they sometimes ask bystanders not to tweet about it.
And a lot of corporations block things like Facebook because they don't want their employees wasting company time.
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