24th Century Sci-Fi

[The Old Mixer]

They could have sci-fi about humanity evolving into Q beings or something.

Alternately, they have it so cushy that maybe dystopian sci-fi is popular...they imagine a scenario in which their civilization has collapsed and they have to struggle to survive.

 

[The Wormhole]

Alternately, they have it so cushy that maybe dystopian sci-fi is popular...they imagine a scenario in which their civilization has collapsed and they have to struggle to survive.

Isn't that a large majority of today's TV shows and even quite a few movies?

 

[Arpy]

They could have sci-fi about humanity evolving into Q beings or something.

This would be interesting. The Q are so far past the Federation it's like an ant trying to figure out quantum physics or Picasso. It'd be interesting to see what kind of abstract stories they try to come up with to make sense of it all. While others think they should build a Great Barrier to keep the Q out!

Alternately, they have it so cushy that maybe dystopian sci-fi is popular...they imagine a scenario in which their civilization has collapsed and they have to struggle to survive.

I wonder if we look to dystopias when times are good to remind us how good we have it, or to help us get perspective from the distractions of how good we have it. We're not actually pessimists or nihilists (most of us, who haven't gone too far down the rabbit hole), but looking for the next good thing to work on. In which case, even in a far cushier civilization like the Federation, they're constantly looking for "0's" to their "1's".

 

[Grendelsbayne]

Stuff at the cutting edge of their science. Anti-Time physics, alternate dimension/galaxy stuff. Maybe some things that are fantasy to us are sic-fi to them -- telekinesis, self-teleportation, conjuring energies from the ether like a wizard...

The problem with much of this sort of thing is that it would be very hard to dinstinguish this 'sci-fi' from reality. Many of these things can and have been done routinely by some species, and some of them have been achieved in Humans through scientific (ie, theoretically reproduceable) means. (TOS actually claims that various types of ESP are scientifically measureable and present in humans, including more physical abilities like firestarting) The idea of other galaxies, in particular, sounds like it would be almost exactly like what their daily lives already are. I mean, sure, another galaxy will have major differences, but the experience of exploring it won't be that big of a change.

I suspect the only subjects (at least that I can think) that would still be far enough out of their daily experience to feel like sci-fi would be: time travel (especially the idea of using time travel deliberately and how the effects of time travel work), dimensional travel (and not to something like the mirror universe, which is just another galaxy to explore, but to something like Fluid Space or the Anti-matter universe), and an evolution horizon (like ascending to another plane, but it could also be evolving into a truly new species - where is the line between humans and post-humans?).