The world did have a Kirk style star treck era, or at least western Europe did back in the 1800's when any one who knew how to build a rifle, or better yet a rifle factory and was will to spend a few years adventuring could go to most any part of the world show up before the local leader and say 'Hey, I can make you the dominate power in your part of the world if you give me a city to run and a harem.' and most of them would take you up on the offer. Then america invented the nuke and anthropology demonstrated the horrors of colonialism and people settled down to found the U.N. What a waste.
Seriously though, go read "The Man who would be King" or if you would like to laugh your ass off look up the Flashman novels. both are about Captain Kirk with a posh British accent, and the latter set fuses him with Rincewind from disk world to stir things up a bit.
Seriously though, go read "The Man who would be King" or if you would like to laugh your ass off look up the Flashman novels. both are about Captain Kirk with a posh British accent, and the latter set fuses him with Rincewind from disk world to stir things up a bit.