Spock: "Here, in the late 1930s. A growing pacifist movement whose influence delayed the United States' entry into the Second World War. While peace negotiations dragged on, Germany had time to complete its heavy-water experiments...all this lets them develop the A-bomb first...Let me run it again. Edith Keeler. Founder of the peace movement...With the A-bomb, and with their V-2 rockets to carry them, Germany captured the world."
Headline of Feb. 23 1936 has FDR meeting with Edith the "slum angel." Other than these few "facts," we've nothing to go on. But Edith's very success in ANY timeline begs the question: exactly what sort of "peace movement" could possibly delay the US going to war subsequent to Pearl Harbor?
Contemporary political extremists might posit some radically cowardly political bent on the part of the US populace/gov't, but this seems to me farfetched. More reasonable, it seems to me, is that in the unchanged Trek timeline, the attack on Pearl did not in fact occur.
Though IJN vessel names appear in TNG, the sole reference to Pearl itself is (per Memory Alpha & the transcript of TNG's "The Enemy" at www.chatkoteya.net/NextGen/155.htm) the line, "But we must measure our response carefully, or history may remember Galorndon Core along with Pearl Harbor and Station Salem One as the stage for a bloody preamble to war."
From 1928 to 1935, the US Navy pursued a short-lived experiment in long-range scouting airships. Both the Akron and Macon were lost, and the program discontinued.
Say this had not been the case, and that the Japanese fleet had been discovered and intercepted at some considerable distance from Pearl. Coupled with Edith's peace movement -- and perhaps Japanese allegations of the action having been only an "exercise" -- such might have prevented FDR from gaining support, circa 1941, for America's entry into the war.
Absent Edith (given she "died as she was meant to"), a debate of (say) some months might result in the US going to war sometime early in 1942, with little further change to actual history (save for, perhaps, some skirmishes with "Luftwaffe 1946" type aircraft in the war's final year.
Headline of Feb. 23 1936 has FDR meeting with Edith the "slum angel." Other than these few "facts," we've nothing to go on. But Edith's very success in ANY timeline begs the question: exactly what sort of "peace movement" could possibly delay the US going to war subsequent to Pearl Harbor?
Contemporary political extremists might posit some radically cowardly political bent on the part of the US populace/gov't, but this seems to me farfetched. More reasonable, it seems to me, is that in the unchanged Trek timeline, the attack on Pearl did not in fact occur.
Though IJN vessel names appear in TNG, the sole reference to Pearl itself is (per Memory Alpha & the transcript of TNG's "The Enemy" at www.chatkoteya.net/NextGen/155.htm) the line, "But we must measure our response carefully, or history may remember Galorndon Core along with Pearl Harbor and Station Salem One as the stage for a bloody preamble to war."
From 1928 to 1935, the US Navy pursued a short-lived experiment in long-range scouting airships. Both the Akron and Macon were lost, and the program discontinued.
Say this had not been the case, and that the Japanese fleet had been discovered and intercepted at some considerable distance from Pearl. Coupled with Edith's peace movement -- and perhaps Japanese allegations of the action having been only an "exercise" -- such might have prevented FDR from gaining support, circa 1941, for America's entry into the war.
Absent Edith (given she "died as she was meant to"), a debate of (say) some months might result in the US going to war sometime early in 1942, with little further change to actual history (save for, perhaps, some skirmishes with "Luftwaffe 1946" type aircraft in the war's final year.
