I like Star Trek for fun adventure and tend to throw away the janky timeline stuff.
it’s pretty much the same problem as the “future” of 2005 in Transformers or 2015 in BTTF II. We lived through the actual time the events take place. But now how do you get Johnny Everyman onboard when we have to be tied down to dates and events that only got exposition dumped on us across previous media over the franchises run. How do they relate to history that makes no sense in a modern context.
Back in the TOS days throwing out a date in the 90’s felt freeing since it was still 27 to 30 years away. There was no expectation for the franchise to have gone on this long back then. So to be beholden to fictional events that are based on Earth feels silly to have most people try to keep straight by now. You got a bs answer from the lady and that’s all you get.
it’s pretty much the same problem as the “future” of 2005 in Transformers or 2015 in BTTF II. We lived through the actual time the events take place. But now how do you get Johnny Everyman onboard when we have to be tied down to dates and events that only got exposition dumped on us across previous media over the franchises run. How do they relate to history that makes no sense in a modern context.
Back in the TOS days throwing out a date in the 90’s felt freeing since it was still 27 to 30 years away. There was no expectation for the franchise to have gone on this long back then. So to be beholden to fictional events that are based on Earth feels silly to have most people try to keep straight by now. You got a bs answer from the lady and that’s all you get.