TNG also brought up raising the continental shelf to create more livable space. Picard’s brother was working on that.
Comment on Will SNW (or any future Trek) Retcon Mojave, California?
reddig33@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Pretty sure TNG and some of the ST movies mentioned weather controls. And there have been many mentions of terraforming entire planets.
So I doubt Mojave would get retconned.
T156@lemmy.world 1 week ago
data1701d@startrek.website 1 week ago
This is probably the strongest counter so far, unless they’ve somehow found or are working on a way to do it without severely borking the marine biosphere.
data1701d@startrek.website 2 weeks ago
I agree weather controls exist - in fact, they’d probably be needed to solve extreme heat and drought in the city.
However, I don’t think terraforming Mojave is the same thing as terraforming a planet - most planets they colonize that aren’t already suitable for human life don’t have a native ecosystem to begin with. What the pilot seems to depict is the elimination of an existing ecosystem and many habitats, which I feel doesn’t seem very Trek-esque. While they would modify the local environment to improve living conditions, I don’t think they would be inclined to do this much environmental damage.