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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MarkB" data-source="post: 8119637" data-attributes="member: 40176">The Burn was only somewhere a little over 100 years ago, so they had around 900 years of advancement prior to that. But maybe we're missing more in the big picture - maybe dilithium isn't the only resource that was running short. Some of what we've been presented with suggests quite incredible collapses in communication and trade, even given the difficulty of warp travel. The situation that occurred in the last episode arose because Earth had lost communication with a research outpost on Titan - that's not even beyond our own solar system, and they still couldn't maintain useful links.I wonder how much of the technology in the Star Trek universe is reliant upon resources available only in certain parts of the galaxy, even aside from dilithium. If you can't build or obtain the parts necessary to maintain your technology, you have to start falling back on what you can make locally.</blockquote>