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[QUOTE]Originally posted by MinutiaeMan: [QB] See, I don't accept most of the stuff in that graphic, myself, because it was ripped directly from the pre-ENT [i]Chronology[/i]. Most of the content was just warped to fit the context; especially the "first contact" with the Klingons in 2223, for example. Don't forget that even TOS got confused about whether the Eugenics Wars was supposed to be the same as World War III, or if it was a separate conflict. I have no problem considering them separate conflicts; even if the conflict was on a near-global scale, I have no problem considering the Eugenics Wars as not deserving the name "World War," because it was primarily caused on one side by the small group of Augments. Rather, then, World War III would be a "true" world war that was caused by many nations and their actual governments, rather than a small clique of tyrants causing mayhem. Finally, I also have no problem believing that there were lots of small brush wars and assorted really nasty regions on Earth as late as 2079, [i]without[/i] having a separate nuclear war in that time. If the original devastation present in 2053 at the end of World War III was as horrible as [i]First Contact[/i] seemed to suggest, wouldn't it be reasonable to expect that certain regions of the world wouldn't recover nearly as quickly? Southeast Asia, for example, could easily wallow in warlordism and factionalism for decades (and since most of the infrastructure would have been destroyed, the ability to wage long-range warfare beyond the region might be nil), and the geography and politics might make a recovery there (even with Vulcan assistance) much more difficult. Thus conveniently explaining why we could have Q's little drama setting from "Encounter at Farpoint" while most of the rest of the world was already on the road to recovery. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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