Fun read.

I wouldn't say I fault Star Trek for not predicting certain things, the least of which being Facebook. Not only is ST beholden to the motifs and ideas set out in its universe by its predecessors, but as the article author states, a show about people wasting time on Facebook wouldn't be "narratively interesting."

They're right, though. In their quest to maintain the same character archetypes as from TOS and TNG, they seem strangely, eh, inhuman, compared to the other races in the show. People aspire to weird ideals (for being a futuristic, spacefaring race), particularly given the situations they happen to be in. But I guess if you lived in a post-scarcity, Prime Directive-obsessed pan-species federation of planets, you might have hopes, dreams, and hobbies different than our current myopic, narcissistic civilization.

(And I will note that BSG addressed these issues with their characters wholesale. And for that, I will always have much respect.)