I can see a Eugenics War as a spin-off series. It's like the Picard series dropped hints for it, and then it was abandoned. I am curious about what happened with it behind the scenes.
What are your opinions regarding Star Trek that are, shall we say, unorthodox?
Because that wasn’t what the story was about. Landing in 1996, the war would’ve already been winding down, if not ended. Plus, Rain Robinson has a model DY-100 on her desk.
So, I don’t see it as something that can be used against the Eugenics Wars happening in the 20th century.
A DY-100 being the escape vehicle for Khan and his supermen does work if the ship exists in 1996 but an older, decommissioned ship christened S.S. Botany Bay is acquired by Khan's people and then launched from South Asia. The DY-100 seems to be a consistent thing even though the Eugenics Wars themselves happen at different times depending on the series.
Records from that era are fragmentary.
Besides, I said that's why I personally go with the SNW version of events. I'm not arguing against any version, I'm just stating which one I prefer.
Don’t take me personally, I’m just being pedantic. I enjoy seeing everyone’s takes on things.
The Khan audio drama focused primarily on his time on Ceti-Alpha 5, but it does offer some interesting hints as to the Eugenics War era while wisely avoiding pinning down a precise date.
The rumor is, the series code name "1992" which was leaked a while back which included others that seem to have gone nowhere like "Star Trek Reliant" was to have been a Eugenics War spinoff. If so, and assuming that date reflected when the series would take place, it would have muddled the issue further.
I like that they kept the original 90s date as having happened originally but then shunted by the temporal war but with no consequence to history. Moving it to WW3 era definitely makes everything more consistent with still a few wobbly bits but lots of chefs have baked this cake over 60 years.
Post atomic horror of 2079 is a wonky spot, maybe it can be retconned to 2059 or maybe there were some parts of the world that were really struggling even over a decade after first contact.
I wonder where Pelia was during the height of the war. Guinan being an alien had the ability to leave Earth and probably skipped over it but Pelia saw it all. She talked about watching the ship leave and spending some time in a bunker after first contact but not about the conflict itself. Maybe she was in her bunker during it too. If George Lucas were making Star Trek he'd have Pelia cgid into the bar in First Contact.
Post atomic horror of 2079 is a wonky spot, maybe it can be retconned to 2059 or maybe there were some parts of the world that were really struggling even over a decade after first contact.
I wonder where Pelia was during the height of the war. Guinan being an alien had the ability to leave Earth and probably skipped over it but Pelia saw it all. She talked about watching the ship leave and spending some time in a bunker after first contact but not about the conflict itself. Maybe she was in her bunker during it too. If George Lucas were making Star Trek he'd have Pelia cgid into the bar in First Contact.
They were at one point rumoured to be developing a series code-named "1992" which I assumed after the retcons in Picard and SNW was to be a modern day series about the Eugenics Wars.
Didnt some WW3 novels have the Vulcan Mestral in them?
I think so? It's a little dark to think that Mestral lived on Earth until possibly dying in World War III. He routinely defended us as an emerging species that's more noble than most Vulcans would think, but may well have perished because of our weapons of mass destruction. Doesn't mean Mestral was wrong, but just right at the wrong time. Which seems a common theme in Trek.
Mestral could have already passed by the time of WWIII. Depending on his age when he came to Earth.
Elusive Salvation, From History's Shadow, and Hearts and Minds all feature Mestral post Eugenics/World War III, taking over for Gary Seven and Roberta Lincoln with Rain Robinson as his assistant.
The series concludes with the Vulcan's arrival at Bozeman, Montana.
Sometimes dark stories can be for the best. Not everyone should live happily ever after or even live at all.
PIC Season 2 somehow took the worst things about 21st century Star Trek productions and made them even dumber.
For some reason these backdoor like pilots never take off. Supernatural tried two. One was supposed to be set in Chicago, and it never happened.
I want to nitpick about the Jedi robes being established back in Return of the Jedi by the force ghosts, but they do make some decent points. But "No one likes their stories being turned into a joke," is a great point to make. If you can't take it seriously, stop making it.
(Though I actually really love a lot of Disney Star Wars, including Bad Batch, Mandalorian, the good bits of Andor etc.)
(Though I actually really love a lot of Disney Star Wars, including Bad Batch, Mandalorian, the good bits of Andor etc.)
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