They speak only in pop culture references no one else has heard of, and they think you're the asshole for not getting it.

Fuck it, you're good. It's too confusing.

Not sure, maybe 2000? They're usually 15-20 year periods. I don't even know what the following generation is called, or if we're now into the next one after that.

Blame their parents.

I can't help wondering if there was gonna be more but CBS wouldn't pony up, like perhaps Disney ponied up for Star Wars Week. Pure speculation here. If it's just an oversight, it's a really bad WTF-level oversight.

Harassing, no, of course not. But she said "notice" which does not mean harass, and could imply the opposite.

I remember exactly how all of this stuff tasted, to the point it's like a superpower, although some had slipped away until just now. I am currently experiencing the mouth-feel of Donkey Kong Jr. cereal for the first time in 30 years, while the Saturday Supercade theme song plays in my head. FUN FUN FUN! Actually…

I think it's more what et11robot was saying, protagonists weren't allowed to do that in the 60s so the only choice was to have the bad guys do it. But at least it got done.

He took some advantage of the fact she was into him, but hers was one of the lives he was trying to save by doing so, and the girl was actually several hundred years old.

Roddenberry himself had shit attitudes about women. All in all he was one of the least progressive influences on the show, with Fontana and Gene Coon at the other end of the spectrum.

But these aren't bands, these are individual human beings. She's lucky she got Steak instead of Koko! Assigning yourself nicknames used to be a risky endeavor. You're supposed to earn those from others, through deeds both great and stupid. But the time of deeds has passed, it's all about crafting images now. …

Quite right. The show's continuity never did come together 100%. I want to say the Trelane episode was pre-Federation but I'm not certain. A recent series rewatch hasn't clarified much.

Agreed, but it's hard to imagine them avoiding this. I'm expecting to see young versions of just about everyone.

Something like that, it was never fleshed out. Garth's exploits were "required reading at the academy" type stuff, but he was still around, so it couldn't have been too far back.

That movie came from a blip in history when cities were viewed as horrible things. Thanks, Baby Boomers! Manhattan is doing fine now but it will take multiple generations to fix the urban wreckage you caused elsewhere.

Have you seen the infamous Constitution episode? Or the ones about Vietnam? Roddenberry was an American exceptionalist through and through.

Many artists are assholes. It's not an excuse.

The timeframe was established during the original series run, initially (I think) in the episode that introduced Khan. He woke up and asked "how long?" and they told him, albeit without nailing down specifics. Eventually it was standardized to a 300 year interval.

He can see your new horizon, underneath your blazing sky.

As someone pointed out in a different thread… how is this not Star Trek Week?