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

  • Flying SquidM
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    177 months ago

    First Contact is just a dream… until one day it isn’t and they start hurling huge numbers of massive space rocks at your planet from a long distance by simply altering altering their albedo a fraction with some white paint to change their orbits…

    But the bad guys in Star Trek are, thankfully, too stupid to think of that.

    • @[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.

                • @[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

        • 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.

  • teft
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    147 months ago

    Ad astra, per aspera.

  • jawa21
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    47 months ago

    Just the other day I started rewatching what there is of SNW (first rewatch) in order to catch stuff I may have missed. The awesomeness of this quote is one of the things I didn’t pay enough attention to the first time around.

  • Rhaedas
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    37 months ago

    Awesome opening of a series, and still my favorite episode. Love the ending as well.

  • @Rookwood
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    37 months ago

    One day could be 1,000,000 years from now. And I would hope it is because we are not ready to interact with an alien intelligence. Ours is barely functioning.