# What fictional disasters are still upcoming? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 25, 2019, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-disasters-are-still-upcoming/839209 "2019-08-25T12:08:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2019, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-disasters-are-still-upcoming/839209/1 "2019-08-25T12:08:23Z")
It seems like most of the best disasters from science fiction have already come to pass. My childhood favorite was always [THE YEAR 1994](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhAobPugvsk). Lucky for us, we still have [World War 3](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/World_War_III) in just a few years, if the Roddenberry oracle is to be believed. What else are we looking forward to? ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2019, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-disasters-are-still-upcoming/839209/2 "2019-08-25T12:13:54Z")
We are 10 years away from the Terminator being sent back to kill Sarah Connor. 2029 was the date. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2019, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-disasters-are-still-upcoming/839209/3 "2019-08-25T15:35:33Z")
Judgment Day keeps getting pushed back due to the Connors, mother and son, so depending on what happens in the next movie, it might still be just down the road. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2019, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-disasters-are-still-upcoming/839209/4 "2019-08-25T15:54:13Z")
The Dalek Invasion of Earth isn’t until 2150. ---
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2019, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-disasters-are-still-upcoming/839209/5 "2019-08-25T16:08:11Z")
According to _Star Trek: Deep Space Nine_ the US government will start setting up special “Sanctuary Districts” interternment camps to give the homeless and the economically disadvantaged are a place to live starting in the 2020s. [https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Sanctuary\_District](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Sanctuary_District) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2019, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-disasters-are-still-upcoming/839209/6 "2019-08-25T16:58:07Z")
Funnily enough, I’ve been rewatching DS9 and that episode is what made me think of this thread. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2019, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-disasters-are-still-upcoming/839209/7 "2019-08-26T13:49:46Z")
Roddenberry’s [Eugenics Wars](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Eugenics_Wars) occurred between 1992 and 1996. They were apparently hushed up. ---
**Author:** ![ralfy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ralfy/32/600_2.png) [@ralfy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralfy)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-disasters-are-still-upcoming/839209/8 "2019-08-27T05:53:43Z")
Not just disasters. Reminds me of the film _2001_. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-disasters-are-still-upcoming/839209/9 "2019-08-27T17:18:30Z")
I think we are about to enter, or may have already begun the time period Heinlein called “The Crazy Years”. I suppose there is an argument to be made that Nehemiah Scudder is pretty close to the current POTUS–but maybe not as much of a religious fanatic. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-disasters-are-still-upcoming/839209/10 "2019-08-27T21:11:22Z")
Going by _Soylent Green_, we’ll be eating each other in three more years. ---
**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:** [August 27, 2019, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-disasters-are-still-upcoming/839209/11 "2019-08-27T21:54:39Z")
In John Varley’s Eight World series, the invaders show up in 2050 and indirectly kill virtually all the humans on Earth. (They don’t directly kill anyone but they make all manufactured products disappear and almost all humans die as a result.) ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-disasters-are-still-upcoming/839209/12 "2019-08-27T21:59:22Z")
We should be knee deep in replicant corpses _right now!_ ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-disasters-are-still-upcoming/839209/13 "2019-08-27T22:07:01Z")
Are we in the Age of Aquarius yet? ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-disasters-are-still-upcoming/839209/14 "2019-08-27T22:43:25Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Roddenberry’s [Eugenics Wars](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Eugenics_Wars) occurred between 1992 and 1996. They were apparently hushed up. That’s the second-stupidest Star Trek fanwank so far. The very stupidest is that Klingons had head ridges all the time but ST:TOS wasn’t filmed in high enough resolution to see them. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2019, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-disasters-are-still-upcoming/839209/15 "2019-08-28T01:35:56Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > That’s the second-stupidest Star Trek fanwank so far. The very stupidest is that Klingons had head ridges all the time but ST:TOS wasn’t filmed in high enough resolution to see them. Aren’t you the…how is that a fanwank? It is mentioned in Space Seed. I believe the Klingon disease in Enterprise was dumber. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2019, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-disasters-are-still-upcoming/839209/16 "2019-08-28T03:52:32Z")
Still 506 years until 2525. To say nothing about 9595. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2019, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-disasters-are-still-upcoming/839209/17 "2019-08-28T12:42:06Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Aren’t you the…how is that a fanwank? It is mentioned in Space Seed. > I believe the Klingon disease in Enterprise was dumber. :dubious: I didn’t mean the Eugenics Wars themselves, I mean the idea that they could have taken place **secretly**. They were supposed to have been one facet of the multilateral conflicts collectively called World War Three. Speaking of which, according to the “…In Death” series of novels by J.D. Robb (alternate pen name of Nora Roberts), we’re supposed to be in the middle of the Urban Wars, a loosely interconnected series of terrorist uprisings that made much of the world (including the USA) look like Bosnia. ---
**Author:** ![Hatchie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hatchie/32/3983_2.png) [@Hatchie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hatchie)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2019, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-disasters-are-still-upcoming/839209/18 "2019-08-29T21:32:59Z")
According to the Firesign Theatre, it is estimated that no underwear will be worn by the year 2020. That’s soon! Does that count as a disaster? Depends. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2019, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-disasters-are-still-upcoming/839209/19 "2019-08-30T01:20:32Z")
> [@Hatchie](#): > > According to the Firesign Theatre, it is estimated that no underwear will be worn by the year 2020. That’s soon! > > Does that count as a disaster? Depends. I am apposed to the death penalty. Except for punsters. I believe it should be mandatory. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2019, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-disasters-are-still-upcoming/839209/20 "2019-08-30T03:30:51Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > Still 506 years until 2525. To say nothing about 9595. The scary thing about that year is if humanity survives that long, the genders may “vie”? What in hell does the song mean by “vie”? A civil shooting war between the sexes? More competition in the workplace? A struggle for scant remaining resources rationed by gender? Hillary’s clones take over the world? I dunno, but I’m guessing it has to do with later generations picking their children “from the bottom of a long glass tube”. Whoa-whoa indeed. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-disasters-are-still-upcoming/839209.md?page=2)