Originaly posted by Michaelis.
Strangely enough, I don't remember that. Could it be that we're thinking of two different people called Michael Jan Friedman? The one I know can't see the future, which is why he wrote SF:YO unaware that the next TV series would show a different early history of Starfleet and the Federation.
This is written on the very first page of the book before Michael’s novel starts.
STARFLEET: YEAR ONE is unrelated to the events depicted in the television series ENTERPRISE
Originally posted by Turbo
One more thing - a number of people in here are treating the Enterprise crew like 'typical' soldiers. They weren't. Enterprise was the first Starfleet vessel. I'd think they'd be seen more as heroes by many people on Earth, like the first astronauts, especially after saving Earth from the Xindi and laying the foundations for the Federation.
At the age as 26, Archer’s wedding proposal was turned down by Margaret Mullin’s because she didn’t want to be another Starfleet Widow. Starfleet has been around for a long time probably using Warp One Box Cars, not allowed to exit the solar system because the Vulcans claim the outer galaxy is too prickly for humanity to weather. It was the first Warp 5 vessel, which was quickly decommissioned in 2161… Unless as time was moved around Enterprise was decommissioned in 2154?
originally posted by JD
One thing you guys are forgetting about is the fact that this is Section 31 we're talking about here, and I have a feeling that we have seen only a small fraction of what they are capable of.
Section 31's, if that is their name, real power is that there are consequences for any of their decisions. How many resources they have to play with while being capable of the unthinkable is another question entirely.
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Changing the electrically stored truth is one thing, but Federation Day is like Christmas to these people. I's an aural tradition and bank holiday (Yet, no Banks. Weird huh?), and generations passing down the stories of where they came from, that's a little harder to frack with... Until two families with slightly different renderings of what happened get into a punch up trying to figure out what reeeeeeeeeally happened.
Don't forget the trillions of school children doing book reports on the Romulan war and/or Trip over the course of 200 years between These are the Voyages... and Pegasus.
"Daddy can you look at my homework?"
"Okay honey. ...Mmmmmmm, uh, ha, uh ha... You got some dates wrong."
"No I didn't, I copied it out of the PADD."
"You copied the PADD!!! You cheated and you still got it wrong?!"
And so on, and so on.