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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 8102488" data-attributes="member: 19675">This isn’t to be an actual Alt-Trek, but sort of an homage.  Goatees not requried.  No actual Romulans, Klingons, etc.As for the roots, I’m not saying Rome didn’t change- after all, Rome itself did over its actual 1000 year run.  And they did lift certain things from the Greeks that preceeded them.  Not to mention the changed but still influential place it has in the world today.So, this “unfallen“ Rome/or Romanesque successor won’t necessarily be bread & circuses, gladiators and decadence the way it’s typically depicted in fiction. Instead, there will be cultural and aesthetic echoes in the aesthetics of official government products* and ranking practices of the institutions...in no small part for the same reasons as the Romans mimicked the Greeks: creating a sense of continuity and congruity.There would still be cultural remanants as well, though- again, either as continuations or as artificially created throwbacks to “better times”.  That would include the current imperialistic & expansionistic phase of space travel.* amusingly, I just had this vision of the original classic Trek Enterprise with warp nacelles styled to resemble Corinthian columns...</blockquote>