Quote is from the first episode of the first season of Strange New Worlds for the record

  • @[email protected]
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    117 months ago

    Even by the TOS era a single starship can scan an entire solar system in a matter of minutes, and phasers are more than strong enough to do some orbit corrections or even blow up an asteroid outright, a stray rock wouldn’t make anyone lose their sleep.

    • Flying SquidM
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      47 months ago

      By the TOS era, sure. We’re talking first contact.

      • @[email protected]
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        77 months ago

        When someone tries to mess with humanity’s first contact, they find more than just primitives. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s the most time travelled to point in time in the whole quadrant

        • Flying SquidM
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          27 months ago

          I don’t know about that, the Borg almost ruined first contact and took over Earth and the Enterprise crew only barely stopped them. Other (intentional) time travelers, which the Enterprise crew were not, didn’t offer any help.

            • Flying SquidM
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              17 months ago

              Would they? It seems like time travel is always a case of ‘anything could happen’ in Star Trek.

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                7 months ago

                There had to have been more of the Temporal Cold War than we saw. First contact seems like a pretty big potential single point of failure for the temporal integrity of the Federation. I think it’s very unlikely that more people haven’t tried to mess with it. And actual agents of the War, like Daniel’s faction would probably have records of historical time travel, or they wouldn’t know what to fix

                • Flying SquidM
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                  17 months ago

                  I would think messing with Earth before it even got to the point of first contact would make more sense. Don’t leave it until the last minute. Make WWIII last twice as long and kill five times as many people so that Earth is reduced to total barbarism.

                  • @[email protected]
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                    27 months ago

                    And then Kirk, Janeway, and for some reason Mirror Picard will appear on your doorstep and you’ll learn about war crimes you wouldn’t even dare to dream about.

                    I’m pretty sure that’s the entirety of Wesley Crusher’s job after TNG.

      • Tar_Alcaran
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        27 months ago

        But WE can scan the sky in a few minutes. Any non-scifi drive flare would stand out like a sore thumb.

        Not that we could do anything about it… But at least we’d see it

        • Flying SquidM
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          17 months ago

          The not being able to do anything about it would be the issue. Easy to achieve, easy to do from far away, difficult to stop.