Happy First Contact Day! 🖖 Today, April 5, 2063, is the first meeting of humans and an extraterrestrial race when a Vulcan ship lands in Montana (Star Trek: First Contact, 1996)
Today's review! A Planet of Wrath and Tears by Colin Alexander:
"Strap in and get ready for a wild ride that sidesteps stale first-contact tropes and brings us something fresh, with enough humanity, whiz-bang tech and a roller-coaster of a plot that ends with a bang. A masterful work of modern-day sci-fi."
@lothcat sera mentions that the Eugenics Wars might have supposed to happen in 92, which aligns with Spock's original dialogue, but that time almost "pushed back" and reinserted important events after "incursions" which we can decide for ourselves what that includes, like #TimesArrow from #TNG, #FirstContact, #PastTense from #dS9, or #FuturesEnd from #VOY.
Crashed UFO recovered by the US military 'distorted space and time' - Daily Mail
The big question: if humankind possesses extraterrestrial tech, why hasn’t it been exploited or demonstrated? Some will say it’s because we still haven’t mastered any of it. Others will say it has and we’re living in a changed world without realizing it.
The midrash: the untold narrative between the moment Riker has to make a decision about inter-planetary intercourse, and the cut to when she is leading him out the door, as she promised in that exchange.
:chefs_kiss: #FirstContact#StarTrekTNG#AllStarTrek@allstartrek
Don’t know why I slept on #CJCherryh for so long, but glad I finally read #Foreigner. Primarily about a whiny translator having tea w/ people he doesn’t really want to have tea with, who don’t like him, alien horses, & the travails of delayed postal service. Somehow also a gripping political intrigue #ScienceFiction, w/ tortuous intercultural relations, rich #WorldBuilding & gothic vibes.