Are We Turning Into the Keepers?

A Star Trek alien race might be us in the future… just without the telepathy and the brain arteries

The very first Star Trek pilot, “The Cage,” featured an alien race that had destroyed the surface of its planet thousands of centuries ago. They’d retreated underground and spent so much time replaying telepathic memories that they forgot how to fix their own machinery. The story of Talos IV was later re-edited into the two-part episode, “The Menagerie.”