Quote is from the first episode of the first season of Strange New Worlds for the record
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.
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.
By the TOS era, sure. We’re talking first contact.
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
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.
Other time travelers would have known that the Enterprise does handle it though
Would they? It seems like time travel is always a case of ‘anything could happen’ in Star Trek.
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
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
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.
Ad astra, per aspera.
Such an amazing quote
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.
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.
Idk, there’s nothing like an outside faction to unify everybody on the same team
Sick of boring old Earth Tribalism? Try the all new Space Tribalism!
Glory to the Emperor!
Give everyone something to hate and we’ll all come together to do it!
Awesome opening of a series, and still my favorite episode. Love the ending as well.
