To be fair, 20th (and probably 21st) century Earth history is going to be very interesting to people in the far future, provided we get there. The century opened with the Wright brothers barely getting off the ground for 120 feet in a crazy headwind, Armstrong took a giant leap a mere 66 years later, and then in 1998, the International Space Station launched, and we go into space with people and objects so often now that nobody really cares anymore.
How well would you fit in if you found yourself 300 years in the past? You probably have a passing knowledge of what the world was like in 1724, but would you really be able to blend in and get the little details right?
And that’s probably an easier task than going back 300 years to the 20th century, when changes were coming much more rapidly.
Well, he was also just keeping his head down and hanging out at a soup kitchen at the time.
Much more impressive was the fact that (iirc) he infiltrated NASA during a military satellite launch in 1968, blending in so well that you’d almost think he was invisible or something.
1930s: We’ve accidentally wandered into the past, we have to keep a low profile and avoid doing anything to change the timeline
1960s: We’re here to study the past, so we’ve come prepared for this exact scenario, and we’ll need to be extremely careful not to do anything that interferes with the backdoor pilot history.
1980s: Hi, I’m from space and want to take your whales into the future.
But in all seriousness, for the most part Kirk does quite well in the 80s, failed attempts at profanity notwithstanding. It’s mostly Spock that gets him in trouble, and he was still recovering from that whole being dead thing.
To be fair, 20th (and probably 21st) century Earth history is going to be very interesting to people in the far future, provided we get there. The century opened with the Wright brothers barely getting off the ground for 120 feet in a crazy headwind, Armstrong took a giant leap a mere 66 years later, and then in 1998, the International Space Station launched, and we go into space with people and objects so often now that nobody really cares anymore.
And that’s just our timeline. In Star Trek’s we started inter planetary colonization already and had a eugenics war.
But then you’d think Kirk & Co. would know it better.
How well would you fit in if you found yourself 300 years in the past? You probably have a passing knowledge of what the world was like in 1724, but would you really be able to blend in and get the little details right?
And that’s probably an easier task than going back 300 years to the 20th century, when changes were coming much more rapidly.
Kirk had very little trouble in the 1930s.
Well, he was also just keeping his head down and hanging out at a soup kitchen at the time.
Much more impressive was the fact that (iirc) he infiltrated NASA during a military satellite launch in 1968, blending in so well that you’d almost think he was invisible or something.
So basically…
Kirk 1930s: Essentially blended in.
Kirk 1960s: Understood society in detail enough to completely figure things out.
Kirk 1980s: What the double dumbass is going on around here?!
1930s: We’ve accidentally wandered into the past, we have to keep a low profile and avoid doing anything to change the timeline
1960s: We’re here to study the past, so we’ve come prepared for this exact scenario, and we’ll need to be extremely careful not to do anything that interferes with
the backdoor pilothistory.1980s: Hi, I’m from space and want to take your whales into the future.
But in all seriousness, for the most part Kirk does quite well in the 80s, failed attempts at profanity notwithstanding. It’s mostly Spock that gets him in trouble, and he was still recovering from that whole being dead thing.
Those ding dongs were still using fax machines.