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Happy First Contact Day!

captclazoruscaptclazorus Member Posts: 377 Arc User
edited April 2014 in Ten Forward
On this day 59 years from today, our children will make contact with a highly advanced race known as the Vulcans. This day shall forever drag our race out of the heap of the wreckage of war and into an age of interstellar travel. We shall innovate to the stars.
Why is this day important? Because I'm a Trekkie.
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  • moonshadowdarkmoonshadowdark Member Posts: 1,899 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    Live long...and prosper.
    "A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP"

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  • artan42artan42 Member Posts: 10,450 Bug Hunter
    edited April 2014
    captclazorus wrote: »
    On this day 59 years from today, our children will make contact with a highly advanced race known as the Vulcans. This day shall forever drag our race out of the heap of the wreckage of war and into an age of interstellar travel. We shall innovate to the stars.
    Why is this day important? Because I'm a Trekkie.

    Children!?
    In 59 years I'll be there.




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  • aeonthehermitaeonthehermit Member Posts: 218 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    I like this idea, but I think our immediate future has more in common with the likes of Fallout or Metro 2033 or Mad Max than anything along the lines of Trek.

    " I always hope for the best. Experience, unfortunately, has taught me to expect the worst. "

    -Elim Garak
    STO in a shellnut.
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  • rattler2rattler2 Member, Star Trek Online Moderator Posts: 58,750 Community Moderator
    edited April 2014
    "Don't try to be a great man. Just be a man, and let history make its own judgements."
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  • slyism3003slyism3003 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    Just finished watching First Contact. Just thought that it's funny that the Federation started in a bar with a broken jukebox. May take out the Soveveign today (the original U.S.S. Orlando).

    VADM Malinda Leisha Ketchem, Federation Ambassador, U.S.S. Orlando;)
  • captclazoruscaptclazorus Member Posts: 377 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    Whoops, mistake. make that 49 years.
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    "I rather believe that time is a companion who goes with us on the journey and reminds us to cherish every moment because it will never come again."- Jean-Luc Picard
  • johnchrightonjohnchrighton Member Posts: 99 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    Happy First Contact Day

    Fought some Borg in my Sovereign and Defiant class ships and got a Phoenix replica and ten lobi after commanding the U.S.S. Odyssey, I mean Enterprise.
    Headlong into mystery
  • philipclaybergphilipclayberg Member Posts: 1,680
    edited April 2014
    If I live long enough to reach the age of 96, I hope to remember to compare 2063 ST:FC version vs. reality. I have the feeling reality will take longer than 49 years to reach the ST:FC version of 2063. People would rather spend trillions on war and billions on Hollywood movies and millions on megamansions rather than looking to the future. If there's anything in reality like Vulcans, they're probably observing this chaotic, overpopulated, polluted, etc. planet and wondering how we managed to survive for so long without self-destructing ourselves and destroying the planet. But if they did come, maybe we'd have yet another opportunity to improve ourselves as an entire species, not just one or two parts of it. One can hope so.
  • steamwrightsteamwright Member Posts: 2,820
    edited April 2014
    captclazorus wrote: »
    Whoops, mistake. make that 49 years.

    Only if Liber8 and the Protector don't change the future. :D
  • lilchibiclarililchibiclari Member Posts: 1,193 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    aeonthehermit wrote: »
    I like this idea, but I think our immediate future has more in common with the likes of Fallout or Metro 2033 or Mad Max than anything along the lines of Trek.

    " I always hope for the best. Experience, unfortunately, has taught me to expect the worst. "

    -Elim Garak
    philipclayberg wrote: »
    If I live long enough to reach the age of 96, I hope to remember to compare 2063 ST:FC version vs. reality. I have the feeling reality will take longer than 49 years to reach the ST:FC version of 2063. People would rather spend trillions on war and billions on Hollywood movies and millions on megamansions rather than looking to the future. If there's anything in reality like Vulcans, they're probably observing this chaotic, overpopulated, polluted, etc. planet and wondering how we managed to survive for so long without self-destructing ourselves and destroying the planet. But if they did come, maybe we'd have yet another opportunity to improve ourselves as an entire species, not just one or two parts of it. One can hope so.

    Star Trek has First Contact happening while Earth is still rebuilding from World War Three, a war in which some six hundred million people died and nuclear weapons were used by multiple sides. Other references to the era between now an First Contact (e.g. the Bell Riots, where America has massive slums full of destitute unemployed people) seriously imply that we will pass through the fire before we come into the light.
  • hawku001xhawku001x Member Posts: 10,770 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    what if this is the mirror universe reality
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