The lack of toilets didn't really get to me (we don't see a lot of WCs on other shows, either), but the lack of time pieces. They're prompt people, they have a calendar system, they have a quasi-military culture, and yet none of them wear watches of any sort. How do they know what time it is? They never ask! This really started to bug me back in 1989, when my parents gave me a Star Trek watch for Xmas.
And, really, at what point do intelligent computers become sufficiently conscious to qualify as people? Star Trek ducked that one a lot, I suspect largely for budgetary reasons.
Re: "That's a case of what's called white privilege though, isn't it?"
The lack of toilets didn't really get to me (we don't see a lot of WCs on other shows, either), but the lack of time pieces. They're prompt people, they have a calendar system, they have a quasi-military culture, and yet none of them wear watches of any sort. How do they know what time it is? They never ask! This really started to bug me back in 1989, when my parents gave me a Star Trek watch for Xmas.
And, really, at what point do intelligent computers become sufficiently conscious to qualify as people? Star Trek ducked that one a lot, I suspect largely for budgetary reasons.