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Re:Star Trek as a purely symbolic artifact of past times by gaelian on Wednesday February 08, 2012 @07:45PM (#3569292)
As good guesses as any. I remember my feeling when I watched the episode in question was that the decline of Baseball was not due to the rise of another sport, but I don't have any source on this and I don't think this was ever explicitly stated. From memory, the reason was chalked down to something non-specific like people becoming interested in 'other things'. It's been a long time since I watched this stuff.

And people's attention spans seem better in the future if anything, don't they?

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Re:Star Trek as a purely symbolic artifact of past times by philwelch on Wednesday February 08, 2012 @09:36PM (#3569543)
Well yeah, but that's only AFTER WWIII and warp drive and first contact.
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Re:Star Trek as a purely symbolic artifact of past times by gaelian on Wednesday February 08, 2012 @09:45PM (#3569563)
Duly noted. :)

I guess getting back to my actual point though, if an entrenched and perennial favourite like Baseball can topple in this version of our future, then conceivably just about anything else can too.

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