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

  • 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.

            • @[email protected]
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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.