I think I've got that now. :-) I now realise I got the idea of it being the past from the Greek gods' names the original characters used, perhaps confused in with that ST:TOS ep with the gods.

However most of my points still stand. How would a culture branching off millennia ago develop the same English names, clothes, script, and time system as us?

Hee. The Lords of Kobol crack me up each time; they should be Six's god.