Pigweed and I watched Oppenheimer over the weekend, which got me thinking about nuclear bombs. I’ve been reading up on them a bit. It’s fascinating and terrifying stuff.
In Star Trek lore, it was Zefram Cochrane’s warp drive that got the attention of the Vulcans and caused them to make first contact with Earth.
Why is warp drive the trigger? Why not nuclear bombs? That seems far more significant.
All a warp drive does is manipulate space-time so you can go faster than light. That doesn’t seem as big a deal as splitting the atom.
I guess the logic is that if you want to split the atom and destroy your own planet, that’s your problem, but if you have warp drive you can take your insanity elsewhere and mess with other people.
However, if Star Fleet is a humanitarian outfit, you’d think they’d want to find planets that had learned to make nukes and guide them in the right direction before they discovered warp technology.
The bad news is that it doesn’t seem like there are any nice people out there who want to guide us through this mess we’ve created, so we’re stuck with idiot politicians.
It’s actually a wonder we’ve survived this long.
Perhaps the Vulcans were wise enough not to count on the “humanitarian” impulse of Star Fleet, and were also taking into account the fact that not every human who had learned the principles of the warp drive necessarily shared Star Fleet’s vision. It makes perfect sense to me that the warp drive would be the impetus for somebody to conclude that the time to stop ignoring humanity had arrived.
Far be it from me to criticize the Vulcans. I just wish they’d come earlier and saved us from Obama, the trans madness, etc.
But then you’d be upset about Lt Dax
Just think how wonderful it would have been had the Vulcans stepped in and saved us from Obama when he absolutely refused to let Trump to succeed him. So unhinged and utterly disgraceful that African American president was that he utterly lost his mind before a crowd of his supporters whom he prompted to storm the Capitol because his fake elector plot had failed. Just contrast that dirty SOB with the calmness and coolness of Mr. Spock, the very model of Obama’s successor. So perhaps someone Vulcan-like did save us from that dirty disgusting African American, right?
Indeed, it would have been ideal for the Vulcans to come earlier and take away those who didn’t want to experience Obama, et. al. Likely would have been so different without them here creating fake controversies (e.g., tan suit gate, birther lie), fake conditions and cures (e.g., Trump Derangement Syndrome, disinfectant injections), fake freak-outs (e.g., Barbie, 642 Things to Write About), fake news (e.g., BIG LIE, tanning testicles), fake feuds (e.g., War on Christmas, Nike, Keurig) and so much more. Where are those dang Vulcans when you really need ’em?
Wait!…there still may be hope…they have a new champion…George Santos!!! He even has inside knowledge about the trans madness. With all his capabilities, surely he can help them!
I would guess that they did not consider it their job to save us from ourselves, just to prevent our madness from spreading.