Wondering what happened to roads in star trek
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The only story we have set in the 20th or 21th century are “Return to Tomorrow”, “Future’s End”, “Future’s End, Part II”, “Carpenter Street”, “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow”, PIC season 2, and First Contact. If there are more, they escape me. These stories are all set on Earth. My best assumption would be that after the 21st century is when automobiles got phased out of society. There isn’t really a good reason to show roads when cars aren’t a necessity for travel.
However for whatever reason, as Mariner points out, we still have bridges.
You forgot “City on the Edge of Forever”, unless you meant late 20th century.
I forgot it.
Great point about Mariner’s bridge comment. One of my fav LDS moments.
They show the Golden Gate Bridge with solar panels on it.
Maybe the highways/interstates are the same.
I was rewatching strange new worlds and in the first episode pike is on his horse riding past a bunch of wind turbines.
Why do they have wind turbines, they have antimatter reactors, what are the wind turbines contributing?
I doubt they use antimatter reactors planetside - very risky, and antimatter don’t come cheap. They likely rely on fusion more than anything.
But hey, the wind is free. Why wouldn’t you use it?
I forgot about that
As a serious response, they still exist. Picard walked down a lane in “Family” until he ran into his nephew. And we see people walk around the street where Sisko’s is
Streets in towns don’t count imo, unless you transport building to building you’ll need streets to walk on. The lane though is a fair point though, personally I wonder about intercity roads
Most likely the city roads just become pedestrian walk ways and they demolish interstates and Highways to make room for more greenhouse spaces.
Yeh. I’d imagine at least in urban areas, they’d be reclaimed. In more unpopulated areas, I could see them becoming hiking/biking trails, or maybe just being left intact in some places for the few hobbyist car drivers left. (I mean, Kirk’s stepfather owned a Corvette in the Kelvin films, though that had Nokia product placement for some reason. We’ll just say that temporal cold war stuff allowed Nokia to last a bit longer and make car accessories, and that this is still a very old stereo.)
whatever it is, it was a long road
Dammit, I saw the single comment and I knew someone had beaten me to it.
His time was finally here
This is like an even worser version of THE GAME
