How would history be different in universe if Humans initiate official first contact by traveling to Vulcan before Vulcans first came here officially?
What if humans initiated first contact?
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Maybe the human-centric focus of the Federation would make more sense if humans initiated first contact.
This idea necessitates humans being more technologically advanced at that point in history. Perhaps the Romulan War does not happen if the Romulans saw humans as more technologically equal or superior.
This idea necessitates humans being more technologically advanced at that point in history. Perhaps the Romulan War does not happen if the Romulans saw humans as more technologically equal or superior.
I remember in the prehistoric (pre-internet) times, that there was an idea that first contact between Humans and extraterrestrials took place in deep space (around Alpha Centauri?). I want to say it was from the old FASA games, but I'm not sure as I wasn't into FASA back then, but I do think the idea came from there.
I think it established that Zefram Cochrane had invented warp drive quite some time ago and that an already unified Earth had sent out a number of manned and unmanned probes in search of E.T.s and eventually found some, but they weren't originally the Vulcans. I'm sure someone who is more versed in the FASA games can correct me and give more details on its take on first contact...
I think it established that Zefram Cochrane had invented warp drive quite some time ago and that an already unified Earth had sent out a number of manned and unmanned probes in search of E.T.s and eventually found some, but they weren't originally the Vulcans. I'm sure someone who is more versed in the FASA games can correct me and give more details on its take on first contact...
Really? Nothing else would be different?
It would fundamentally change ENT, IMO. If Humans never needed Vulcans as schoolmarms, then Earth might have developed the Warp 5 engine while Johnny Archer was still a kid flying model starships on the beach...
Shuttlecraft crashes on Vulcan. A group of Vulcans assemble around it as drunk human pilot stumbles out.
Drunk human: Sup?
Vulcan: Live long and prosper
Drunk human: Oogie-Boogie!
Drunk human dances around drunkenly as Oogie-Boogie plays. Vulcans stare on with blank looks on their faces.
So yeah, more or less the same, just different planet.
Drunk human: Sup?
Vulcan: Live long and prosper
Drunk human: Oogie-Boogie!
Drunk human dances around drunkenly as Oogie-Boogie plays. Vulcans stare on with blank looks on their faces.
So yeah, more or less the same, just different planet.
Maybe short term, but humans seem to be the most expansionist exploration species, locally.
"Humans are weird...finally, something we all agree on!"
Fixed that for ya!
In the Star Trek Spaceflight Chronology, published in 1980, met their first extraterrestrial species, the Alpha Centaurians, in 2048. That was a six-year-long, sublight voyage, because warp was not invented until 2055.
Vulcans were found in 2065, when an Earth ship rescued a disabled Vulcan vessel.
Tellarites broke the pattern by coming to us in 2073, when they opened relations by staking a claim to our star system. Obviously, the Earth ship stood its ground, and the Tellarites appreciated the show of strength and proposed friendship.
An Earth ship made first contact with Rigel in 2079.
I like the idea that the Tellarites decided we were sentient and worth knowing after browsing the 2073 version of Twitter, which was even more toxic than the 2024 version.
I'm going to go back and add page numbers, because it seems Cygnus X-1 doesn't support hotlinking. The log entries are worth reading, to see what Trek lore was like in the 1980s.
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