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[QUOTE]Originally posted by targetemployee: [QB] Before I retire to bed, I would like to discuss sequence of events. And to the side, our conversations are no more ridiculous than religious scholars debating the existence and nature of angels. They exist in the world of religion, a world that these scholars have great faith in. For many of us, Star Trek exists as a function of our reality. That is my take anyway. [IMG]http://flare.solareclipse.net/smile.gif[/IMG] For the purpose of this discussion, let's forget dates. The original Star Trek established that about 150 to 200 hundred years ago humanity had developed interstellar travel. At the beginning of this technology and socialogical leap, the Eugenics War began and ended. This war was catastrophic, but didn't impede the advancement of humanity into the stars. The exact number of dead is not known. (In "Bread and Circuses", Spock lowered the numbers. The reason is thus-To preserve the Prime Directive, both Federation captains had lied about their origins. The Roman nation, being xenophobic and isolationist, had never traveled outside their boundaries and therefore couldn't validate the strangers claims. The claims were accepted at face value. So, the two Federation captains said that they came from a land across the ocean and that they had ships at the shore. And so when Spock said that 34 million had died, he was giving a projected number if the world wars had been fought on a smaller scale. This is consistent with all three world wars. I suppose this answers the question raised by the episode "Space Seed". Which world war is mentioned? The Third World War.) In the next series, humanity had begun to explore space three hundred years before. Also, as in the first series, the exploration of the stars began after a terrible war. This is the Third World War. The sequence of events matches. Just the dating doesn't. In the next series, we are told that the Eugenics War occured two hundred years before. This would be long after the early phase of space exploration. And this contradicts information given in the last series that there was no war on Earth after 2113. In the next series, we are shown briefly a DY-100 series ship with boosters. In the footage 'captured' by Voyager, we see no launches of the DY-100 series ship or news reports about the DY-100 series ship. Furthermore, there are no news reports about a Eugenics program. And furthermore, ships are not traveling at warp speeds in the time period of the model. Based on all four sources of information, I would say that the first two were close to each other in the sequence of events. First, a terrible war. Second, warp drive was formulated, tested, and used by Earth ships. By the third series, this sequence had been altered. First, warp drive. Second, war. By the fourth series, the sequence is largely missing. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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