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We're actually still on track for the prime Star Trek universe. Things got really, really bad before humanity got its shit together. That last part is how you know it's fiction.
Things regularly get bad and then good again. The Star Trek lore is modeled on the Hoover Great Depression giving way to a New Deal and Great Society.
The fact that it was written in the 1960s, when that monumental economic transformation was just wrapping up, isn't a coincidence.
Places like Texas and Florida were being transformed from agricultural backwaters to the forefront of interplanetary travel. The distance spanned between 1929 and 1969 is borderline magical.
I think the point where the universes diverge is when we decide how cool goatees are.
I say it's not too late to start the Bell riots.