Quote is from the first episode of the first season of Strange New Worlds for the record
First Contact is just a dream… until one day it isn’t and they start hurling huge numbers of massive space rocks at your planet from a long distance by simply altering altering their albedo a fraction with some white paint to change their orbits…
But the bad guys in Star Trek are, thankfully, too stupid to think of that.
Even by the TOS era a single starship can scan an entire solar system in a matter of minutes, and phasers are more than strong enough to do some orbit corrections or even blow up an asteroid outright, a stray rock wouldn’t make anyone lose their sleep.
By the TOS era, sure. We’re talking first contact.
When someone tries to mess with humanity’s first contact, they find more than just primitives. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s the most time travelled to point in time in the whole quadrant
One day could be 1,000,000 years from now. And I would hope it is because we are not ready to interact with an alien intelligence. Ours is barely functioning.
Idk, there’s nothing like an outside faction to unify everybody on the same team
Sick of boring old Earth Tribalism? Try the all new Space Tribalism!
Glory to the Emperor!
