Timeline for Why don't more top colleges / universities appear in Star Trek?
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| Jun 20, 2015 at 15:23 | vote | accept | Ghost Koi | ||
| Jun 20, 2015 at 11:26 | comment | added | O. R. Mapper | "Some of these schools have been around for 300+ years already and so it seems fairly reasonable that they would continue to exist." - exist over such a long time? Quite possibly. Being "top" throughout all that time? Maybe not so much, and that is even without looking at whether "top" is even defined in any reasonable way. | |
| Jun 19, 2015 at 23:46 | history | edited | Praxis | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 19, 2015 at 23:42 | comment | added | Praxis | @GhostKoi : I have just done some pretty major revising to your question, in the hope that it will be less muddled now and will attract more positive attention. If you don't like it, feel free to edit / roll back. | |
| Jun 19, 2015 at 23:41 | history | edited | Praxis | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 19, 2015 at 23:14 | answer | added | Praxis | timeline score: 11 | |
| Jun 19, 2015 at 23:12 | comment | added | ThePopMachine | How many scientists do you meet from Earth who aren't in Starfleet? It doesn't need an explanation. You answered it yourself. | |
| May 17, 2015 at 4:57 | comment | added | Covertwalrus | I'm pretty sure that Jake Sisko studies at a academic institute in Wellington, New Zealand ( South of where I live, and north of the Otago plains where Mr. Paris was in pokey ) which is involved in literature. That clearly isn't Starfleet controlled. So, i say there are independent learning centres. | |
| May 4, 2015 at 4:15 | comment | added | Ghost Koi | @Richard, I was just curious if they ever did reference other institutes aside from Starfleet and Cambridge (which they only did once in an alternate time line)... the focus isn't just on Starfleet, throughout the series Picard/Kirk/Janeway interact with top scientists, researchers, politicians, and explorers outside of SF- It just seems strange that there are never any references to other universities... or even in the context of research, wouldn't these schools still be conducting research that would impact space exploration? | |
| May 4, 2015 at 3:15 | comment | added | DVK-on-Ahch-To | Perhaps Roddenberry was under impression that all officers graduated from West Point/Annapolis? | |
| May 3, 2015 at 22:09 | comment | added | Valorum | What is it that you're wanting to know that isn't already covered in your question? Clearly there are institutes of higher learning and at least one of the reasons we don't see them more often is because we're focused on Starfleet vessels. | |
| May 3, 2015 at 4:06 | history | edited | Keith Thompson | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 3, 2015 at 2:54 | comment | added | Xantec | This list of schools may be useful. | |
| May 3, 2015 at 2:24 | comment | added | Junuxx | You kinda answered your own question by mentioning Data at Cambridge :P. Maybe WW3 has something to do with the lack of mention of the American institutes? | |
| May 3, 2015 at 1:50 | history | asked | Ghost Koi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |