"The Year We Make Contact"

It just dawned on me this morning that in a few weeks it will be 2010. Now officially that is the last year of this decade (since years started at 1 not 0) but it still sounds all impressive/scary! What I think is kind of amusing is the movies, TV shows, and predictions of the future that we all grew up with, and those with years on them are approaching. Or, in some cases, "past" events that happened in shows set in the future (a la "Star Trek").

Some notables that I've thought of:

-"2010 - The Year We Make Contact" (2010) - ok this one could still happen, and actually we may not be far off from this given what's going on with the space program - and it could very well be Americans and Russians too!

-"Back to the Future 2" (2015) - I don't see 2015 being much like the 2015 they had. Power laceup high tops (no on both counts), power jackets (no), flying cars (not likely), and inflation to where a Pepsi was $50 (no). Not to mention everything was run on fusion - and we haven't figured that one out yet. From a 1985 perspective, those things, particularly the inflation one, seemed likely! And we certainly haven't abolished all lawyers!

-"Star Trek series(s)" (events in their past) - the engenics war was supposed to have happened in 1992, although they altered the timeline and explained that one away. 2009 was supposed to be an Earth-to-Saturn manned flight (no). 2012, the "Millenium Gate" (no - and one of the worst Voyager episodes ever). 2024, the reunification of Ireland by the UK (didn't this already happen a few years ago?) 2053, WWIII. 2063, First Contact with the Vulcans.

I think in some ways Star Wars was smart to set their story "a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away". That makes it kind of timeless.

Post some of your favs