Dark ages
Dark ages was a term describing periods of history in which a civilization was perceived to have regressed culturally and scientifically. On Earth, "the Dark Ages" usually referred to parts of the Middle Ages in Europe.

The violent rise of the Augments on Earth in the 1990s threatened to send humanity into a new dark ages. ()

Doctor Leonard McCoy denounced dialysis as something from the Dark Ages after being transported to San Francisco in 1986. (). His counterpart in the alternate reality similarly described the medical instruments on the  as being from the Dark Ages. ()

In 2366, Captain Jean-Luc Picard protested that allowing the Mintakans to continue believing him to be a god would "send them back into the dark ages." ()

Malcorian Chancellor Avel Durken believed that those of his people opposing the development of warp drive in 2367 were living in the dark ages. ()

After seeing the technological achievements of the Federation in 2368, Hannah Bates lamented that she and the others of the Genome colony had been living in the dark ages. ()

See also
The Dark Time

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Historical eras