Why Star Trek Is So Unbelievable

Multi-level touch screen controls? Got that on my phone.
Phasers? Military is working on that.
Light speed? Sure, theoretically.
An earth where people don't use currency and are basically morally upright? Never.

I love watching Star Trek, and really like that I can watch DS9 on Netflix. Gene Rodenberry's vision was extraordinary, if not a little bit pie-in-the-sky. The problem isn't about the high tech gadgetry and complicated science we've seen from the original series all the way to the present permutations of that futuristic vision.

The thing that will never happen, no matter how much technology advances, is a society that has solved the problems of poverty, crime, racism and religion. Mankind might make a good ray gun, but men will never make themselves good.

Scripture is clear that we're wicked to the core, and we've proven to ourselves over the centuries that whether we're stamping cuneiform characters in clay or use a text to speech app on our smartphone, our hearts haven't changed. We might be smarter, but we're no better. I'm convinced that people confuse technological advancement with morality, but men are just as they always have been: depraved and in need of a Savior outside of themselves.

The only time we'll see everything set right is in a renewed heaven and earth, where wickedness and unrepentance (and those who practice such things) will be forever taken away. And beaming from one place to another will be easy.