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What year does the story take place? How far into the future is this?


Other shows say what year it is. I am only into the first 3 episodes of season 2. Did I miss it somewhere?

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Weve got no real indication of how far in the future it os IIRC. At one point, Five refers to "Star Wars 39" or something like that so its far enough in the future for them to have made that many movies in that franchise.

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Considering Disney has now its hands on this francise, Star Wars 39 might happen in maybe 40-50 years.

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I think the show is supposed to happen at least 200 years from today. But maybe much longer.

Then again the show is very oddly divided. We have on one hand the ability of FTL drives, but on the other hand we still have capitalism in its most brutal, criminal, opressive and uncivilized forms.

I dont think the future will actually look like this. Assuming FTL drive is possible in the first place, I would assume that sentient lifeforms that acquire it will always have gone through a long period of ever advancing technology. If during that phase they didnt managed to get rid of capitalism, it would have destroyed that species.

Because thats what capitalism is doing right now, its endangering our species.

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Thanks for the info. This show does not contain any alien beings either. Something strange for a sci fi show about space.

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Technically Sci-Fi, Science Fiction, is primarily about fictional science and technology and the impact it has on the human race. Often it can lead to space exploration and encounters with alien life, but it's just as easily about robots and alternate dimensions and all that.

Proper Sci-Fi is not all about aliens and space, and a good deal of what's called Sci-Fi is actually more Fantasy. The lines have blurred with numerous sub-genres, though. Star Wars, for example, is mostly a space opera fantasy film.

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I don't think they have colonized much yet so it's possible they just have run across any of note.

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2617, it's pointed out in Season 3.

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Well, they went back in time, 600 years to "the early 21st century" so yeah, early 27th century.

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