• slazer2au
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    6 months ago

    Babylon 5 had an episode on this. A sleeper ship was launched and a few years later we got jump gate tech from an alien race.

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      6 months ago

      The Orville too. And apparently this show called “Ark” too (going by other comments). And in books and video games too. Seems to be a common sci-fi trope.

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        6 months ago

        That’s how they found Khan in Star Trek.