I guess I'm still gonna get my wish

I was just thinking about how when this episode aired, it was only 20ish years after WW2 ended.

This was recent history to everyone, and they were already making social commentary about it here, as well as the episode where they go to the literal Nazi planet.

9/11 is further in the past for us than WW2 was for them.

You take that back! 9/11 was last month. I'm not old.
- Fuck that I'm not going back to high school. You're old

Where can I sign up for the Eugenics shots?

If I'm going to live in an authoritarian hellscape I'm doing it with genetic enhancements or not at all.

You've been genetically enhanced! ..... to work 18 hours a day in a dilithium mine!
- Can it be at this mine?
  My luck I'll be sent to Rura Penthe.
That sounds suspiciously like hormone therapy. Banned! /s
Just my luck I'm either in the Control group and get the placebo, or I get in super early trials and end up with the Kane Madness
- Time to change your username to Smike.

I KNEW this was the mirror universe. I'm making a break for it you guys.

- How can he walk through it, yet break it with his fist? I call shenanigans!
- Holy shit, a Star Trek CCG card. That's a blast from the past.

You say that, but Star Trek Earth 2025 - 2050 didn't exactly go great, even if they managed to sort things out in the end. It took them at least a whole century to really clean up their act.

Yeah, were due a third world war first.
- *nuclear war

Given how things have been going for most of the western world I wonder:

We are the Mirror Universe, not the Prime universe

We're in a third alternate universe where we get the Bell Riots, WWIII, nuclear apocalypse, authoritarian government, uncontrolled eugenics programs, no warp engine technology and no Vulcans or alien species coming to save us from ourselves ..... oh yeah but the Borg arrive too.
- Honestly, the Borg arriving would be something of a mercy. I'd join.
- But the Borg of this universe can't communicate with eachother. The queen can send orders and the Borg can send up responses or thoughts, but the queen largely ignores non-beneficial thoughts. But because of this, there is a queen each subqueen can send communications to and receive orders from. All the way up to the "CEO queen" who does the bidding of the actual collective "board of queens".
  The more powerful queens have simply survived longer and assimilated more, and have spawned enough queens to destroy rival colonies.
  Instead of being referred to as the "Borg Collective" they call themselves "Hardworking Individuals".
- I bet we invent the Borg
- As long as it's not the goddamn Kelvinverse.
- The bobiverse...
The Bell riots never happen in this timeline
- They’ll happen. Just later. And worse.

People, it is with great sadness I come to the conclusion that we are the mirror universe.

If Vulcans landed, we would absolutely board their ship and take everything we can.

Kill them, board the ship, take everything we can, attempt to reverse engineer it, find tech that could make life instantly better for over 90% of the population to end world hunger and instantly cure countless diseases injuries and ailments...but instead they patent it and hold back 100 years of progress while some people get obscenely rich
- If you believe some of the UAP testimony, the government has actual craft and biological remains.
  It’s difficult to get excited about though because our timeline seems too boring and dumb for that.
  …and if it IS true, I think you are correct about how a huge benefit to humanity would be held back. But just as likely as the profit motive would be turning it into weapons rather than using it to revolutionize society.