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[–] 119 points 6 months ago (6 children)

Star Trek promised us Irish unification two years ago, so I'm not holding my breath

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  • [–] 33 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    I guess this needs to happen for WW3 to start. Clearly.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    Are you implying that fiction written way in the past cannot accurately predict current events? What's next, no flying cars and public use hoverboards in 2015 (alright, they were actually pretty accurate with millionaire Biff Tannen)?

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  • [–] 54 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    We already missed the Bell riots.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    did we?

    I see a bunch of warehouses burning...

    maybe we're going to speed run everything in a few months until we get to WW3.

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  • [+] 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    You got a source for that? That seems like a crazy number

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  • [–] 41 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    On the plus side, the Vulcans then notice us and introduce themselves a couple of decades after the war ends.

    C'mon ya green-blooded freaks! Do it early!

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  • [–] 30 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    it's only 7% of earth current population. That's not bad right?

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  • [–] 16 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    The ratio of wounded to dead is around 4 to 1.

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  • [–] 12 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Most people who die in wars are civilians. Especially if WW3 goes nuclear, that would probably be most of them. However that is basically just nuking all major cities in China or so.

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  • [–] 30 points 6 months ago (8 children)

    The face you make when you learn trek lore predicts WW3 starts in 2026

    Stop the world, I wanna get off.

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  • [–] 26 points 6 months ago

    The Eugenics War and the 2nd American Civil War were supposed to preceded WWIII. When the Bell Riots didn't happen we changed the timeline.

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  • [–] 24 points 6 months ago

    But we missed the bell riots. We aren't in the federation universe. We're likely in the Teran universe.

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  • [–] 16 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Maybe everything that was supposed to happen in the Star Trek universe up to this point is all going happen all at once on December 31, 2026

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Dax was born in 2018.

    The future seemed so far away back then

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    Committing to any real world dates was a fundamental misstep. They knew it was a bad idea from the start! That's the whole reason stardates were invented! But they couldn't help themselves.

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  • [–] 16 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Counterpoint: they should have just kept real world dates without worrying that they "didn't happen." We all know Star Trek is made up. Stop trying to reconcile it with real history.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    Not my preference. Star Trek was made to be about our future, not the future of an alternate past.

    SNW seems to have formalized the concept of a sliding timeline, attributed to temporal cold war shenanigans. I hate that justification, but the sliding timeline approach is probably the best one for how the franchise has developed. The Eugenics Wars are will happen 20 to 30 years from now... whenever now is.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    Counterpoint to your counterpoint: we do not refer to BCE dates by the calendars of their time...the original date as it was referred to then may be documented, but everything from our time referencing them is converted to the BCE/CE scale.

    And for good reason. Could you imagine if we still referred to events that happened > ~1400 years ago as "the harvest season of the second year of king Louie"?

    As contemporaries of the stardate era, only a total nerd would know how people of a given historic era would refer to their calendar. Most people, assumedly, would have learned from resources scaled to a stardate calendar.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    It's not the dating system I'm concerned about, I'm not bothered whether they use stardates or CE. I think it was unnecessary to adjust the Trek timeline in SNW because the 90s had passed and the Eugenics Wars hadn't happened.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    As long as everyone is 100% instantly vaporized I'm cool with it. It'd suck if anyone had to suffer the aftermath.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    i’m ok if the owning class suffers in the aftermath. maybe everyone gets one of those worms that crawls up your pee hole but all it does is hang out there and itches and complains about how tiny its new dick home is.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago

    I always think we are cursed to be emotional creatures, who need to vent our deepest darkest urges so that we could emerge better than before. A lot of scholars think even if a major catastrophe happens in our lifetime, a new and better system usually emerges, just as it happened in history. The problem is, and I always say this, it will become worse before it gets better.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago

    That was the original timeline. But after so many time travel, who knows?

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    I honestly doubt, that it would take that long. Nukes can end a war pretty quickly.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Nukes can fast-forward the world into a late-war environment in a couple of hours. But it's not actually known if they can end a war.

    Unless you are talking about those "Earth's crust destroying" nukes. But no country has actually built those.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    World war 3 will start in 2026 and end in 2026

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

    I'm just going to drop "Bernie und Ert" for the fellow German speakers here ... it's on youtube. View at your own discretion.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    If they start giving out drugs to troops, I'm signing back up!

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    Good job we can sublimate to even better than Star Trek.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago