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All [[Wiki Words]] are capitalized [[hottip:*:[[All Lowercase Letters|except some]], but pretend that {{smallcaps|The Future}} is ''even [[Up to Eleven|more]]'' capitalized.
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[[The Future]] is typically 200-1000 years after the present time, but there are no real set limits, and [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]] has been popular at times. [[The Future]] differs from [[A Long Time Ago in A Galaxy Far Far Away]] by the presence of Earth--whether the show is set in San Francisco or whether Earth is a distant legend, there are always ties to Earth that make it significant in the show.
 
Most books of advice to aspiring authors insist that [[Space Opera]] should be set at least several ''thousand'' years in the future, based on just how much civilization would have to develop to make such things possible, but TV shows rarely go anything like that far ahead, partly to justify showing an Earth-based society that isn't so radically different that the viewers can't relate at all, but mostly because [[Sci -Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale]]. (Although really, who can predict these things?) A relatively near-future [[Space Opera]] setting can be justified by having ancient civilizations already out in space and humanity a relative newcomer to the galactic stage, which has the bonus of being able to fit in [[Expospeak]] as aliens explain what's going on to the ignorant human barbarians.
 
[[The Future]] is where much of "hard" science fiction takes place. The various ''[[Star Trek|Star Treks]]'' are set here, as are ''[[Babylon Five|Babylon 5]]'', ''[[Buck Rogers|Buck Rogers In The 25th Century]]'', ''[[Firefly]]'', you name it.
 
In The Future everything might get worse or better ([[The Future Will Be Better]]).
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[Firefly]]'' took place in the early 26th century (the pre-title montage indicates "2517 A.D.") in which Earth (known to everyone as [[Earth -That -Was]]) was stripped of all resources in a mass exodus to [[Terraform|terraformed]] planets outside the solar system.
* ''[[Babylon 5]]'' is set in the 2250 and 2260s.
* ''[[Star Trek]]'' of course, where [[Humans Are Special]]-- so special in fact that they've created ''the'' [[The Federation|United Federation of Planets]] with [[Earth Is the Centre of The Universe|Earth as the capital planet]] which (as far as the residents of the federation are concerned) is a near perfect society.
* ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' has frequently delved into Earth's future, all the way to ''a hundred trillion years'' on, during which time the universe faces imminent collapse. It tends to show it as fairly or sometimes decidely [[Dystopia|Dystopian]]. (With [[Whoniverse]] [[Broad Strokes|not exactly set into stone]], though, the series has shown some fairly contradictory visions of the future which include two contradictory accounts of Earth's ultimate destruction. For the record, it supposedly happens in seven million years time. Though other stories place it at five billion years from now.) ''[[Torchwood (TV)|Torchwood]]'' regular and ''Who'' expatriate Captain Jack Harkness comes from approximately the year 5000.
** Retconned by the presence of the Time War. Apparently it caused a lot of really, ''really'' screwy stuff to happen to the timeline.
 
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