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September 21, 2016
Iām pretty sure I donāt recognize half of those names. Oddly enough, I donāt see āAvery Brooksā on that list.
Iām also not sure that some of those names on there help the cause. I mean, when Riiiiiiiickkkkkkk Berrrrrrrman is for something, thatās a pretty solid reason for Trek fans to be against it.
ā¦doesnāt Star Trek lore state that the Federation came about in the aftermath of World War 3?
Or William Shatner, for that matter.
If I Recall Correctly, the UFP isnāt a direct result of a third world war on Earth. There is a non-lineal descendant of the UN on Earth and that is where much of the Iconography of the UFP comes from, but none of the Earthās governing bodies survived intact the conflicts that occurred in the Star Trek universeās 21st century.
Thereās a scene from one of the many Star Trek novels where Kirk is looking at the restored Space Shuttle Enterprise and reminisces about how the original US lasted long enough to see the beginnings of the world he knows. He also notices that the flag had been updated to the last one used by the US, with 54 stars.
Mark Gosdin
Coincidentally I did just happen to see a rerun of TOS where Spock mentions that 37 million died in World War III.
I also saw First Contact not that long ago and its numbers for WW3 differed greatly. I see Wikipedia also points out the inconsistency in the loreā¦and there are a great many inconsistencies.
Star Trek is 50 years old and there have been a lot of people involved in creating itās āLoreā, so it isnāt surprising that there are contradictions and inconsistencies.
Mark Gosdin
the next Star Trek movie should deal with the Mirror Universe.
Going to involve Time Travel and have Kirk meet his Dad from what Iāve heard. Having the movie entirely take place in the mirror universe would be an interesting take though.
I canāt say I was a huge fan of the āMirror Universeā stuff, best I can say was that it was better than the āSpace Courtā episodes. Though I remember the post-TOS mirror stuff more vividly than the TOS mirror stuff, maybe it was better?
A real case could be made that the Federation was a direct result of the Earth-Romulus War. While we donāt know the actual particulars of that conflict (yet), something presumably convinced Vulcan, Andor, Tellar , etc., to enter into an official alliance with Earth not too long after it ended.
@Lord_Shameless I have a book on Star Trek spaceflight which was published to go with the first motion picture that touches on the founding of the UFP, which it states was in response to the threat of the Romulans and the other, yet to be contacted, space-faring civilizations ( Klingons ) that might be hostile. Now the books arenāt always canon and Star Trek canon is confused at best anyway, so take that with a large grain of salt ( or a big swig of Romulan Ale ).
"Well, Itās ā¦ Itās ā¦ Itās GREEN!"
Montgomery Scott
Mark Gosdin
Like most things, Star Trekās continuity isnāt perfect, but it does hold up pretty well overall (far more things fit than donāt). Initially, first contact with the Klingons was placed after the formation of the Federation by various books based on conjecture from onscreen dialogue, but there really wasnāt anything that said that it couldnāt have happened before the Federation was formed.
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