Fermented blood, I just assumed.
Seems there's no word on it for sure.
Drinking blood is no worse than eating flesh.
So long as the donor is non sapient.
You heard of Black Pudding?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_pudding
Did Future's End Wipe The Eugenics Wars Timeline?
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Fermented blood, I just assumed.
Seems there's no word on it for sure.
Drinking blood is no worse than eating flesh.
So long as the donor is non sapient.
You heard of Black Pudding?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_pudding
Of course the Eugenics Wars were happening during Future's End, it's just that the story takes place in the United States, and the wars were in the Middle East. Average Americans are also notorious for ignoring what's going on around the world that they're not personally involved in, so there was no mass panic among the strangely-dressed people of L.A.
The Supermen walked into the Middle East, killed a couple million human beings, reduced the price of a barrel of oil by %75, and the West gave them a big thumbs up.
Well Flint uses the Gregorian calendar for when he was born, and Data uses the Gregorian calendar in "The Big Goodbye" and "The Royale". How many other times did characters use AD or BC or CE or BCE? Just using years without identifying the calendar does not prove which calendar they are using, and identifying the calendar as the Gregorian calendar a few times does not prove they use it all the time. And the many date contradictions prove that the characters use different calendars at different times.
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What, you think that the Klingons must use the Gregorian Calendar because it is the only one where the years go up to 2309 by the era of TNG? No doubt you think that Vulcan and Andorian and Betazed calendars only go up to the year 5 or 203 or 157.
When I was a child my sister told me - accurately or not - that a friend of the family had a medical condition and had to drink a glass of ox blood every day. And ever since then I have not found the idea of drinking blood to be very yucky.
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You mean Admiral Bennett in "Dr. Bashir, I Presume", right? That line has since been acknowledged as a mistake, a typo. It's not "binding" on Trek canon. Effectively it never existed.
As for the Gregorian calendar: Makes sense, really, since most of these races have spent enough time around humans that they'd pick up some of their habits (deliberately or not).
Decanonization is a myth.
CBS has to recall everything ever made & distribuited, destroy it, and (maybe) replace it.
Even then, the almost exercised storymatter still won't be relatively decanonized until after everyone who saw the original footage is dead.
One possibility - particularly as Bennett refers to DNA resequencing (something not found in the original Khanate) - is we could assume that he is confusing the Eugenics War (of the 1990s, which involved Khan) and the Augment Crisis of the 2150s (involving Soong, DNA requencing and the Klingons) which was about 200 years earlier and complicated Federation/Klingon relations for decades.
A time before kindles - at least book 1 - I had to buy it on ebay (book 2 was on kindle). Futures End was over 20 years ago now!
One thing that hasn't been mentioned is Khan's sleeper ship - the DY-100 -- was around and known enough for the average scientist to have a model on display in her office (Which from memory doesn't really fit in with Greg's books)
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/DY-100_class?file=DY100model.jpg
That puts Futures End 1996 far in advance of contemporary 1996. I've always justified the more advanced trek universe back to Futures End and chronowerx. The computer revolution would have happened just fine (as it did in our universe), however the space revolution is a different ball game.
I'm just not able to imagine the Star Trek universe as the same as our own reality or possible future. When TOS was being produced and for a while after, it was "common wisdom" that within a decade we'd have colonies on the moon, manned missions to mars, bases on mars etc. So the way space seed has sleeper ships being sent to distant worlds in 1996 is forgivable. I think in, say 46 years, we'll be disappointed again.
P.S. depending on the which version you follow, Zephrem Cochrane was born this year. Happy Birthday Zeph!
P.S. depending on the which version you follow, Zephrem Cochrane was born this year. Happy Birthday Zeph!
