Like can you imagine our society today if everyone was like totally obsessed with baroque music and ancient Greek tragedies and stuff like that. Not saying there's anything wrong in admiring the past and history, but just let's not forget what century we're actually living in eh? I mean like duh it's Trek so everything's pretty much fictional, but even as a fictional tale I think it's like a huge blow to credibility when mostly any form of art referenced and shown is something that we 20th/21st century people already know. It's really hard to believe that there's been no new music, books, movies, or any art created by the 22nd, 23rd or 24th century beyond what we know today. Like okay they have what many people today consider "classics" - but the "classics" we have today are like totally different from what was considered "classics" say 100 years ago. So I don't think it's credible that everyone in the Trek universe would be like so obsessed with or even know all the "classics" from like 200, 300, 400 years ago (depends on the series). Hell I was born in the 20th century and I don't even know who the frell Sting is. Might wanna call me an ignorant with absolutely no taste in music, but hey art is like the most subjective thing in the world, and my list of "classics" just happened to include stuff like Lion King and Shrek. Sue me.Seriously. I mean how would you know that say a novel published in 2010 by Distracted didn't become such a popular classic bestseller that 300 years later it was turned into a successful holonovel? How would you know that my 12 year old sister's half Andorian great grandson didn't become such a wonderful successful singer/songwriter that instead of a Vic Fontaine hologram they'd have a Tharen O'Grady? Is it really that hard to imagine stuff like that. I mean here I am just throwing these ideas off the top of my head. Doesn't really take that much effort. But the way they did it in Trek it just seems that the only area with any advances and innovations in 400 years had been science and technology. And that's really nice and fun to have like transporters and replicators and tractor beams and stuff, but there's no art in it. There's no statement.
Especially with humanity meeting so many other species, who supposedly have their own culture and art etc. Like I mean even today different cultures from around our own world constantly impact each other. Say in music for example, American born and raised singers who may or may not have any middle eastern ancestry whose music have middle eastern elements in it. And many other examples. Is it really that hard to imagine that alien cultures would impact future art the same way. Like how about instead of "Blue Skies" for the Riker/Troi wedding they'd actually hire someone to write like a brand new never before heard song. In our current mainstream way if they want. Then play with the tempo a little bit. Or a lot. Add unusual sound effects. Play it with unusual instruments. Make it sound like it's not from our time and place. It's really not that hard. There are many creative people in the world who could do that. Hell I even wrote a Trek song myself that partially uses the Tholian chirp/voice as an instrument.
Humanity has supposedly advanced like 200, 300, 400 years yet in many ways it's still stranded like way in the past. I think it's a shame. Life imitates art and art imitates life. If there's no life there's no art. And if there's no art there's no life. Only a series of biological functions.
