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.
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
I don’t know about that, the Borg almost ruined first contact and took over Earth and the Enterprise crew only barely stopped them. Other (intentional) time travelers, which the Enterprise crew were not, didn’t offer any help.
There had to have been more of the Temporal Cold War than we saw. First contact seems like a pretty big potential single point of failure for the temporal integrity of the Federation. I think it’s very unlikely that more people haven’t tried to mess with it. And actual agents of the War, like Daniel’s faction would probably have records of historical time travel, or they wouldn’t know what to fix
I would think messing with Earth before it even got to the point of first contact would make more sense. Don’t leave it until the last minute. Make WWIII last twice as long and kill five times as many people so that Earth is reduced to total barbarism.
And then Kirk, Janeway, and for some reason Mirror Picard will appear on your doorstep and you’ll learn about war crimes you wouldn’t even dare to dream about.
I’m pretty sure that’s the entirety of Wesley Crusher’s job after TNG.
Just the other day I started rewatching what there is of SNW (first rewatch) in order to catch stuff I may have missed. The awesomeness of this quote is one of the things I didn’t pay enough attention to the first time around.
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