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.
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
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