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Yes, good point!
Spoilers Picard Prequel "Children of Mars"
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Yes, good point!
Yes, but my point stands. Saying that "First Contact Day" would be considered a "local" holiday only to Earth folks and not their Martian cousins is absurd.
I suddenly find myself wanting a Pepsi Perfect.
Canadians and Americans don't celebrate each other's Independence Days, do they?
First Contact Day is likely a human holiday, not an Earth holiday per-se.
I'd presume most people who live on Mars are human.
Since First Contact inevitably led to the founding of the Federation, I suspect it's celebrated on multiple worlds.
Do they also celebrate first contact between the Vulcans and the Andorians then? Or the Vulcans and the Tellarites? You can't have the Federation without all four after all.
At least in non-canon Trek literature, the Human-Vulcan first contact is seen as the pivotal moment of local galactic history. Vulcans had made first contact with other species before, but contact with Humanity transformed their society. Ambassador Solkar said outright that the Vulcans recognised themselves in Humans.
Books like "Federation: The First 150 Years", and "Picard: Autobiography" also stress the significance of the event.
It is not about Alien Species A meeting Alien Species B, it's about two disparate cultures meeting, finding they're two sides of a different coin, and then building an unprecedented interstellar union of species. While in the distant past other such unions were formed (Star Trek: DTI book series), in canon nothing before and nothing after has coalesced into a federation like that.
I dunno man. I guess I could see the Vulcans celebrating First Contact Day. But I see no particular reason why Andorians, Tellarites, or any of the other Federation races would. Federation Day seems good enough.
I think if you're on Earth, or in Sol System, you're probably celebrating First Contact Day. It's like if you live abroad, or are on a holiday abroad, you'll often celebrate whatever the national holiday/event is even if it has little significance to you yourself. You're buying into the culture.
Yeah, this is my headcanon.
I mean, the Federation is already way too human-centric based upon what is depicted onscreen (largely for budgetary reasons). No reason to make it even more "everyone is equal, but humans are the most important race in the quadrant."
That is indeed a bit sexist.
Not even remotely the same. The first contact in question was humanity's first contact with the aliens. Martians are (mostly) humans and that event is just as much part of their history as it is of Earthlings'.
The amount of importance put on it may vary though.
Goodness, I hope not!Ehi! Perhaps they teach Kirk-Fu during the P.E. period
Otherwise they'd both have their shirts ripped off!!
Yep, although possibly to different degrees, depending.
It's probably a bigger deal on some planets than others.
EDIT: Just notice that Fireproof beat me to the punch. Serve me right for skimming.
Lil is from EARTH and so is her Dad.
Even if nobody else at the shipyards celebrates Fist Contact Day, these two do and it obviously upset Lil that her dad couldn't be around in this particular year for the festivities.
And that is the most important aspect to the story being told.
Eh, you said it better.
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