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Frank75
Since: Jan, 2001

I noticed that some sci-fi shows (Star Trek:TNG, Star Trek: Generations and Firefly come to my mind), even when the setting is really futuristic most of the time, tend to portray family homes, or better the *ideal* family home, as coming straight out of the 18th century. Think Picard's family vineyards, Picard's Christmas fantasy in Generations, Simon and River Tam as children in a flashback. Has this been described before?