# Something that just occurred to me about Star Trek... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 14, 2012, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-that-just-occurred-to-me-about-star-trek/612811 "2012-02-14T14:47:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2012, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-that-just-occurred-to-me-about-star-trek/612811/1 "2012-02-14T14:47:56Z")
Although the original show waffled a bit on it, it was eventually established that TOS took place 300 years in the future. Well now that the show is almost 50 years old, it would be more accurate to say it was 250 years in the future. That realization makes me feel old… ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2012, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-that-just-occurred-to-me-about-star-trek/612811/2 "2012-02-14T15:03:03Z")
You didn’t feel old when the 1990s came and went without a third world war? And aren’t those eugenic augments supposed to be taking over right about now? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2012, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-that-just-occurred-to-me-about-star-trek/612811/3 "2012-02-14T15:07:16Z")
SHHH! What’s the first rule of Eugenics Club? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2012, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-that-just-occurred-to-me-about-star-trek/612811/4 "2012-02-14T16:39:54Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > SHHH! > > What’s the first rule of Eugenics Club? You club the inferiors until they submit? ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2012, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-that-just-occurred-to-me-about-star-trek/612811/5 "2012-02-14T17:24:25Z")
I’m still wondering what happened to[the Rocket of 1955](http://cmkornbluth.bravehost.com/Kornbluth,%20C%20M%20-%20The%20Rocket%20Of%201955.html). ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2012, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-that-just-occurred-to-me-about-star-trek/612811/6 "2012-02-14T17:29:03Z")
Eleven years ago, I tried to contact Pan Am to schedule my vacation to the moon, only to be told the company had been defunct for a decade. ---
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2012, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-that-just-occurred-to-me-about-star-trek/612811/7 "2012-02-14T17:48:10Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Eleven years ago, I tried to contact Pan Am to schedule my vacation to the moon, only to be told the company had been defunct for a decade. Yet someone answered the phone? Hmmm… Sounds like a front for The Men in Black. ---
**Author:** ![SirRay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@SirRay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SirRay)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2012, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-that-just-occurred-to-me-about-star-trek/612811/8 "2012-02-14T18:40:15Z")
> [@mlees](#): > > Yet someone answered the phone? Hmmm… > > Sounds like a front for The Men in Black. Pam Am was in operation a decade ago. [Of course, they went to Maine, not to the moon](http://www.guilfordrail.com/) ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2012, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-that-just-occurred-to-me-about-star-trek/612811/9 "2012-02-15T00:01:17Z")
> [@SirRay](#): > > Pam Am was in operation a decade ago. > [Of course, they went to Maine, not to the moon](http://www.guilfordrail.com/) Man. You think that they’d slap that logo on a better website. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2012, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-that-just-occurred-to-me-about-star-trek/612811/10 "2012-02-15T01:00:57Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > That realization makes me feel old… We’re **three years** away from _Back To The Future Part II_’s 2015. How do you like them apples? ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2012, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-that-just-occurred-to-me-about-star-trek/612811/11 "2012-02-15T01:01:25Z")
I’m just worried about Presidential Candidate Nehemiah Scudder. Nothing good will come of that. ---
**Author:** ![kirk1168](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@kirk1168](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kirk1168)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2012, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-that-just-occurred-to-me-about-star-trek/612811/12 "2012-02-15T01:03:39Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > We’re **three years** away from _Back To The Future Part II_’s 2015. How do you like them apples? And we’re seven years away from _Blade Runner_. They better start building the pyramid skyscrapers pretty soon. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2012, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-that-just-occurred-to-me-about-star-trek/612811/13 "2012-02-15T04:47:11Z")
> [@kirk1168](#): > > And we’re seven years away from _Blade Runner_. They better start building the pyramid skyscrapers pretty soon. There’s one in Las Vegas. The buffet is kinda dumpy, though. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2012, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-that-just-occurred-to-me-about-star-trek/612811/14 "2012-02-15T04:50:24Z")
Fortunately, though, _1984_ is 28 years in the past. Boy, I’m glad _that’s_ over with. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2012, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-that-just-occurred-to-me-about-star-trek/612811/15 "2012-02-15T04:52:54Z")
> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#): > > I’m just worried about Presidential Candidate Nehemiah Scudder. Nothing good will come of that. Have you seen the Republican lineup? ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2012, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-that-just-occurred-to-me-about-star-trek/612811/16 "2012-02-15T05:19:44Z")
Meh. None of it can possibly take place in this Universe anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harvey_The_Heavy)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2012, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-that-just-occurred-to-me-about-star-trek/612811/17 "2012-02-15T11:35:35Z")
Spock Prime came back and prevented the eugenics wars. He’s posing as an actor from Boston. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2012, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-that-just-occurred-to-me-about-star-trek/612811/18 "2012-02-15T14:42:15Z")
The Jetsons was made in 1962 and was set one hundred years in the future in 2062. So we should now be halfway to robot maids and flying cars. ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2012, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-that-just-occurred-to-me-about-star-trek/612811/19 "2012-02-15T14:46:17Z")
How about robot cars and flying maids? ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2012, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-that-just-occurred-to-me-about-star-trek/612811/20 "2012-02-15T14:53:02Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > We’re **three years** away from _Back To The Future Part II_’s 2015. How do you like them apples? The way I heard it put was: “In three years, it’ll be 2015. We will then be as far from the year **Back To The Future** was made (1985), as **Back To The Future** was from 1955, the year Marty went back to.” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-that-just-occurred-to-me-about-star-trek/612811.md?page=2)