# Pop culture within science fiction; the good and the bad

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** movies, star-trek-paramount\
**Created:** [September 21, 2025, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-culture-within-science-fiction-the-good-and-the-bad/1023260 "2025-09-21T14:19:38Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 23, 2025, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-culture-within-science-fiction-the-good-and-the-bad/1023260/101 "2025-09-23T18:53:50Z")

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> [@Johnny\_L.A](#):
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> OK, maybe even in the 23rd Century Iowa was still a bit behind the times; but inkwells? Even when _Star Trek_ originally aired, schools didn’t have inkwells!

My secondary school in the UK still had some desks with inkwells well into the ‘90s- in fact I think they were still there in a few classrooms when I left in the early 2000’s. We didn’t use the inkwells, obviously, though we did have to use cartridge pens, not ball point pens, due to a head teacher who had some odd ideas about professional behaviour.

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