Does Star Trek Have Any History Of Forecasting Events That Actually Came To Pass?

[sandyRoe]

A friend told me there was a scene where someone remarked that Ireland had been reunited in 2024. That seems very unlikely.
The scene was deleted before the episode was screened in the UK.
In The Simpsons there have been a number of predictions that were unerringly accurate. Trump would become President, for example.

[douglas9401]

Voice activation, hand-held communication, the enduring mini skirt...

[ToraToraTora]

There was a famous first when Kirk Kissed Uhura.

[Peter Pedant]

no matter how many times it occurred, that wdnt prove the idea would it?

Carl Gustave Jung sort of discusses this in Synchronicity - cheapest £8.99 Amazon, and I really wdnt bother

Ch 5 he gets to - this can never be proven by scitific principles - oh

Oh can I be saucy in a AB mimsy way?
yeah - time travel, Dr Who 1962.

The problem with Doris Stokes saying, "something awful is gonna happen: I feel it in my bones" is every now and then it does

[Peter Pedant]

I suppose if this were really true we would all be watching The Simpsons and then ringing our stockbroker.

and in Cicero's de divinatione, ( a Latin quote just to enrage mods and other forrin-lingo-haters, intellects all of them)
he says ( he good in haruspicial (Roman) Law)(*) says:
"I can hardly meet another haruspex without laughing"

(*) I will let etymologically inclined ( some thousands) ABers look that one up

[DTCwordfan]

that a Vulcan on the Enterprise would become Prime Minister of the UK....

https://cdn-uploads.huggingface.co/production/uploads/1666770282811-62f9fb748cd542e895b573ff.jpege

[douglas9401]

Now we're getting to the guts of it.

[DTCwordfan]

I'll try again
https://cdn-uploads.huggingface.co/production/uploads/1666770282811-62f9fb748cd542e895b573ff.jpeg

[Arksided]

Well that’s not Spock he’s a science officer so would be in blue.

[brainiac]

Ireland definitely will be reunited, just not by next year

[DTCwordfan]

No Arksided, it's that other Vulcan aboard, Rishi....

[Tuvok]

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/The_High_Ground_(episode)

This was the episode that the BBC banned

https://www.cbr.com/star-trek-tng-high-ground-unaired-uk/

[DTCwordfan]

Apparently, in real life, he has an encyclopaedic knowledge of Startrek...then so too does Truss.

https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/304-Mitch-Benn-1536x864.jpg

[THECORBYLOON]

Sky showed the unedited version in 2006 and the BBC did the same in the following year.

[Arksided]

Thanks. Hard to see on phone. Just messing anyway DTC. ;-)

[mushroom25]

// then so too does Truss. //

her early demise should have been anticipated, her in a red tunic 'n all.....

[douglas9401]

And her face in a resting state of 'stunned'.