I don’t watch CNN regularly, but it was on while I was waiting in the airport in 2001. They had a report by Miles O’Brien and I was like, whoa! I have to tell someone. Then I remembered I was all alone. I guess that day was all-in-all good, too. Until the flight attendant made me feel bad for not wanting one of their stupid wet tissues.
How much Brien is in this CNN report?
Miles O’Brien!
Hey, my sister knew Miles O’Brien was a trek name without me even having to tell her!
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Eating $100 bills? Is our money good in Canada?
It is if it’s in the form of 100-Canadian-dollar bills.
Uh oh.
I just found a place where ST:TOS itself contradicts the above notion that subspace radio didn’t exist 100 years prior to the series.
In the ST:TOS episode “Balance of Terror”, they establish that a war between the Romulans and Earth ended over 100 years prior to the episode, and that the treaty which ended the war (and which also established the Romulan neutral zone) was negotiated over subspace radio!
SO:[ul][li]The Enterprise NX-01 has subspace communication capability in 2151 and 2152.[/li][li]Both Earth and the Romulans have subspace communication capability in 2160 (the year the Earth-Romulan war ended).[/li][*]The U.S.S. Horizon did not have subspace communication capability in 2168 (the year they visited Sigma Iotia II), and according to Kirk, they “didn’t have subspace communication in those days.”[/ul]
Maybe B&B are trying to re-write ST history.
Well, if Brannon & Bragga are trying to re-write Star Trek history, I hope they’re doing it to iron out contradictions (such as the above contradiction between “Balance of Terror” and “A Piece of the Action”!).
Well then, the first thing to go has to be the Eugenics Wars. Seems like nobody on Star Trek outside TOS ever mentions them (although I can recall once in DS9). Not even when Voyager went back to 1996.
Speaking of the Eugenics Wars, when’s World War III supposed to break out? It has to happen pretty soon, otherwise the world won’t be devastated enough to look like it did in ST: First Contact – or like it did in the 2-part DS9 episode “Past Tense” when they went back to the early 21st century.
That DS9 episode was supposed to take place in the 2020’s, I believe, and while LA was not a happy place, it was supposed to be pre-WW3. I got the impression that 2063 was just a few years after the end of WW3, so it could be a while yet.
Yep. :o I just went back and reviewed my tape of “Past Tense, Part I” (DS9), and the awful conditions in San Francisco’s “Sanctuary” district were caused by plain old fashioned bad policy and a lousy economy, not by a world war.
Maybe there was subspace radio, then it all stopped working for like 10 years (the union went on strike).
Perhaps it was outlawed by United Earth Space Probe Agency.
The Eugenics War started in the 1990s. Apparantly, we are right in the middle of it. But, WWIII was different, and just before Zephram’s warp ship thingy.
As for the TOS nit, maybe it should just a Kirk nit, the nit wit. (He was known to lie…)
Ah, San Francisco. What was I thinking, LA? San Francisco is the only city on Earth Star Trek ever mentions. 
PARIS!!!
Ah, but in “Fortunate Son,” Captain Keene was also quoted as saying:
“I’m going to need a warp 3 engine just to stay in business.”
Capatin Keene, the same as Commander Keene of ancient video game fame?
Heh, one of the subordinates in “Goodbye Galaxy” couldn’t get Keen’s rank right. She kept calling him Captain, Commodore, Corporal, everything but Commander. I think he killed her.