What if the Star Trek universe knew about our timeline?
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(What I posted in the other, similar thread.)
See "Visit to a Weird Planet (or The inside story behind the antagonism of a certain network toward a certain segment of the population)" by Jean Lorrah and Willard F. Hunt, and see also "Visit to a Weird Planet Revisited" by Ruth Berman.
https://fanlore.org/wiki/Visit_to_a_Weird_Planet
https://memory-beta.fandom.com/wiki/Visit_to_a_Weird_Planet_Revisited
https://memory-beta.fandom.com/wiki/The_New_Voyages
They are both utterly ingenious. The second one was published in Star Trek: The New Voyages from Bantam.
See "Visit to a Weird Planet (or The inside story behind the antagonism of a certain network toward a certain segment of the population)" by Jean Lorrah and Willard F. Hunt, and see also "Visit to a Weird Planet Revisited" by Ruth Berman.
https://fanlore.org/wiki/Visit_to_a_Weird_Planet
https://memory-beta.fandom.com/wiki/Visit_to_a_Weird_Planet_Revisited
https://memory-beta.fandom.com/wiki/The_New_Voyages
They are both utterly ingenious. The second one was published in Star Trek: The New Voyages from Bantam.
We are the mirror universe.
They'd probably be curious of our existence, where you don't get sucked into a time anomaly, changed in a lizard, get possessed by an alien presence, or get involved in some border incidents with Cardassians or Romulans every other week. ('Wow, a universe where a mundane existence is possible... it's weirder than we ever could have imagined!')
I assume those are pretty Starfleet specific problems, and civilians planetside are indeed living quite, happy lives.
Possibly. I have no idea how common interstellar travel is for civilians in the 24th century, for example. Do they do it for holidays, much like we visit each other's countries or continents?
Sure, but a trip to the moon or Tellar or Risa is far different than exploring unknown space and patrolling the neutral zone...
The TNG crew would be amazed that we don't carry a stack of tablets around when we've got a lot of work to do.
All the crews pre-Kelvin would be flabbergasted at seatbelts.
The Klingons and Andorians would probably come hang out with us.
All the crews pre-Kelvin would be flabbergasted at seatbelts.
The Klingons and Andorians would probably come hang out with us.
I'd expect that if there is such interstellar tourism, you'd have all degrees of tourists -just like today- from those that never venture out of their all-you-can-eat-all-amenities-included "In B' Hala's shadow" resort on Bajor, to those that go adventuring on their own at, or even beyond the frontiers of explored space.
Starfleet would be wonder where the stasis pods are and why no Eugenics Wars
Klingons would watch MMA and virtual any form of combat entertainment
Andorians, Ferengi, and Romulans would get along with us best
Tellarites would get into arguments and be shocked at those who can't handle a different viewpoint
Borg would be disinterested in us as a whole
Orions would troll comic book conventions
Klingons would watch MMA and virtual any form of combat entertainment
Andorians, Ferengi, and Romulans would get along with us best
Tellarites would get into arguments and be shocked at those who can't handle a different viewpoint
Borg would be disinterested in us as a whole
Orions would troll comic book conventions
They are, we are the MU.
Isn't this the plot of Galaxy Quest, in reverse?
Did Gene give Berman the secret code before he passed?
Klingons would get HUGE into wrestling then lay seige to our world when they found out it was fake.
Kirk would look around for five minutes and say "let's get the hell out of here" for at least the 2nd time in his life.
If we let humpback whales die out AND don't develop warp travel, Earth in this time line is doomed anyway, by his reckoning. At least we stopped launching Voyagers after the 2nd one.
they REALLY forgot about them a few hundred years later
Then upon realizing its sports theatre, the Klingons would ask why the stories are not on the level of Shakespeare, to which the wrestling fandom would reply “cause the writers.”
If their temporal authorities believed that information about their future had been leaked to us, thus altering the natural course of our timeline, such authorities might also take on the responsibility of attempting to correct our timeline. They might assign a temporal taskforce to explore the source of the leak and to stop it before it started.
If their agents were successful, Gene Roddenberry would not have received the information.
That could mean that the Federation and its Starfleet would never exist in our corrected timeline.
However, we can all see that Gene Roddenberry did receive the information leak. Therefore, we can conclude that their temporal agents were unsuccessful at stopping the leak before it started.
That could mean that the Federation and its Starfleet could exist in the future of our timeline because of the information leak.
Therefore, our own future temporal authorities could find it necessary to assign a temporal taskforce of their own to ensure maintenance of the leaked information and to explore the curiosity of the other timeline’s temporal agents.
However, our own future temporal authorities would also bear the charge to maintain a corrected timeline rather than a timeline contaminated with information leaked from the future of another timeline.
Therefore, it must be discovered that our future temporal authorities were actually the source of the leak to Gene Roddenberry to begin with. It would be a race in which our own temporal agents must find Gene’s hearing ear to preserve what is actually our natural timeline versus temporal agents from another timeline racing to find the source of the leak only to happily discover themselves outside their own jurisdiction.
Only time could tell.
No; the MU is the timeline in which "Requiem for a Martian" was an actual script, that got produced and aired (thereby destroying the credibility of ST, prolonging the Vietnam war, causing NASA to be taken over by the military, causing Roe v. Wade to go the other way, and generally giving us what Trump tried to give us: the mercantilist, social-Darwinist, unabashedly racist, sexist, and jingoist America that would have been, had Theodore Roosevelt taken the bullet that was meant for McKinley), and not a hoax dreamed up decades later by a few wise-asses.
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