Not that I know much about the rock strata of Iowa, the thing he nearly fell into was clearly a quarry... It's sides were hewn rock. From the vast mesa-sized sci-fi constructed structures seen on the horizon, I suspect that's what they built with that stone! It's actually a extremely simple explanation, and not really a plot hole at all. Those cool looking Sci-fi structures on the horizon actually gave me that goosebump feeling that Startrek is in the future, instead of most of the low budget TV and film's where the most they ever did to indicate it was the future was film in a couple of modernist buildings.
The car issue is a non-issue really. It's owned by a Starship Captain, who all famously get good 'wages' and can spend it on nothing, because they are in space for years at a time, and we can make hydrocarbon based fuel out of plants today, for example in states where they grow a lot of plants, like say IOWA, for example, and yeah it may be expensive, but you know, see above! the late 20'th/early 21'st century is full of living acronisms: We both preserve what we have now and also embrace future stuff: You can go to remote places in england and ride on Steam trains, or rent canal boats and ride in the crumbling canal network, and I can't imagine it being any different in 50-100 years time, just like people buy antique furniture and like living in 400 year old houses.. in the UK that's COMMON. In a post-war earth yeah I can imagine a lot of people would likewise want to keep hold of relics from the past, and to them our era would be just as relevant as any other for collecting (and lets face it we made a LOT of junk for them to collect, mass production era anyone!)
I'm always very suspicious of the strain of fanboiism which seems to like to be able to pick and choose what it finds acceptable: Like it's totally fine to have energy beams which can reconstitute your body 40,000 km away but not 1 lightyear; Or that having a ship the size of a football field is fine, but one that's 2 is ludicrous beyond belief; or having the ability to alter the internal environment to have internal gravity, and turn it on and off at will is fine, but being able to do that TOO a starship is STUPID; being able to summon any known substance from nothing is fine, but having a world economy not based on being paid is UNREALISTIC... It's a very fine tuned set of plausibility rules which really make no sense on the face of it, especially when what's 'implausible' is usually quite plausible in the presented reality.
the late 20'th/early 21'st century is full of living acronisms: We both preserve what we have now and also embrace future stuff: You can go to remote places in england and ride on Steam trains, or rent canal boats and ride in the crumbling canal network, and I can't imagine it being any different in 50-100 years time, just like people buy antique furniture and like living in 400 year old houses.. in the UK that's COMMON. In a post-war earth yeah I can imagine a lot of people would likewise want to keep hold of relics from the past, and to them our era would be just as relevant as any other for collecting (and lets face it we made a LOT of junk for them to collect, mass production era anyone!)
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