Carl Eyesnheart wrote:
We are quite advanced from 1950, that is for sure, but we are nowhere near as advanced as that time period was expecting us to be.



On the other hand cell phones, personal computers, and data storage systems are already somewhat ahead of where the tv show thought we'd be. And we never did have those Eugenics Wars back in the 1900s.

I don't find brewery engines any more objectionable than salt shaker medical equipment. It's all just dramatic window dressing for that space faring road trip to the stars.