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Line 1: {{trope}} [[File:~~SFbeforeandafter_5352~~SFbeforeandafter 5352.png\|frame\| [[Star Trek\|Starfleet Headquarters]] Top:[[Star Trek: The Next Generation\|Pre-Dominion War.]] Bottom: [[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine\|Post-Dominion War]] ]] Line 9: In some works, restoring the world to this once grand state may be the goal by the characters. Conflict may arise when there are different factions each with their own ideas on how to recreate this utopia. In cynical works, older characters who lived in this time, or educated characters about this time may also comment on how it really wasn't that grand of a time, and that in reality, it was just as bad, but in its own ways. In other works, there may be no way to restore the world to its once-grand state, and the details of it only exist to highlight how far the work's society has fallen, and to add drama to the story. If there were any characters that were [[Human Popsicle~~\|Human Popsicles~~]]s from this old time that wake up in the [[Bad Future\|time of the work]], expect to see a [[Fish Out of Temporal Water]] story from them, along with plenty of angst. What separates this trope from [[And Man Grew Proud]] is that this "better" time is still well remembered, and not relegated to myths and legends. Line 30: == Live Action TV == * The image for this trope is of Starfleet Headquarters from ''[[Star Trek]]''. During the early run of ''[[Star Trek: The ~~Next Generation\|Star Trek the~~ Next Generation]]'', the Federation, Starfleet, and Earth were viewed as ultimate achievements of humanity growing up, the embodiment of perfect people, and paradise, respectively. As the show ran on and its spinoff ''[[Star Trek: ~~Deep Space Nine\|Star Trek~~ Deep Space Nine]]'' ran on, the Federation met and was attacked twice by the Borg, involved in a war with their closest allies, the Klingons, had several citizens break away to form a splinter group called the Maquis who waged a Guerrilla War against the Cardassians, made first contact with an empire called the Dominion and went to war with, leading to millions, if not billions of casualties, an Admiral who tried to lead a coup against the Federation, and the Breen bombing San Francisco. By the end of it all, with Starfleet on a war footing, several moral compasses gone from black and white to gray, Picard's offhand comment seems especially poignant. {{quote\|'''Picard''': "Can anyone remember when we used to be explorers?"}} Line 36: == Tabletop Games == * ''[[Warhammer ~~40000~~40,000]]'': Codex books, manuals and tie-in ~~novels--especially~~novels—especially ones dealing with the Imperium of ~~Man -- often~~Man—often refer to the (poorly named) "Dark Age of Technology", which was a time of great technological stride and prosperity that preceded the "Horus Heresy" and rise of Chaos. * [[White Wolf]] ''loves'' this trope ([[Tropes Are Not Good\|and not always doing it in a believable way]]): ** ''[[Exalted]]'': The First Age, when the Exalts actually were building a world that catered to humankind's needs. Then the Usurpation happened. Then the Great Contagion happened. Line 64: {{reflist}} [[Category:Exposition]] [[Category:~~Before the Dark Times~~{{PAGENAME}}]]