So it works best for people who get most of their excess calories from fat and people who are fat , because they love their third pasta serving too much won ' t benefit ? If orange fat stains in your pants are a benefit , yeah . <| sep |> The recovery code for your phone is only shown right after you set up the phone onto the account , never shown agaib <| sep |> The writers are wisely cautious about trying to predict artistic developments centuries into the future . They have more confidence when making projections about the development of technology and some social trends , for which some consistent inspiration is available from contemporary science , but forecasting artistic trends is a fool ' s errand and they shy away from it . This doesn ' t mean that the 24 th century does not have a vibrant human cultural scene , but depicting it explicitly would be little more than a throw of the dice in most cases , so it ' s avoided . I really like this explanation . It does a good job of fleshing out the pragmatic part of my working conclusion that the lack of culture is at best pragmatism at worst laziness on the writers ' part . If they genuinely succeeded in creating plausible new cultural trends for the future , then whatever they came up with would end up proliferating outside the show and would become popular in our own time , so in a sense it ' d be a selfdefeating exercise . Ha ! Great point . Better not let Paramount and CBS executives read that , or they ' ll be hamstringing in culture left , right and centre for the marketing opportunities .