Looking at history, I fear that could be decades, or centuries from now…

Something about watching them is like a slap in the face, that society at large seems to have broken all the morals and promises that we aspired to, that the shows represented…

Yeah, I feel that.

Eh it’s long dead, would have been a B movie, probably not good. But I did get to investigate and learn about a lot of deep sea life. It had a bio luminescent based language.

I worked on a deep sea sci-fi horror film, that never got made, but the idea was intelligent life based on deep sea vent life.

So much interesting potential...

I agree that it’s the ideal direction. It’s the how and the what of it in terms of storytelling, that will captivate a wide audience…

Or one might equate it to the Shire. Characters have to leave The Shire for the adventure, but it persists as the quant notion of home that’s under threat.
Something about that seems very 20th century, though…

Solarpunk is a tricky one, because when it’s often depicted in sci-fi, it’s usually as the too-good-to-be-true utopias or would-be 3rd party victims of some antagonistic force.
Earth in Trek seems very solarpunk adjacent, but they’re also rarely there in the show, because the drama is elsewhere.

Even if we entertained that scenario, it would be like handing a mobile phone to a caveman & expecting something Flinstones-esque to occur.

That one hurts deep somehow…

Would be easy to 3d print it and metal plate it, probably.

Alas I have no video of Unk.