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TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 125 points 1 month ago (4 children)

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

[–] jupyter_rain@discuss.tchncs.de 35 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] ragas@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Seeing how all brexit negotioations revolved around ireland, why yes I think it is totally plausible that WW3 is started by some northern irish fisherman fishing a few kilometers too far south.

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[–] KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 58 points 1 month ago (3 children)

We already missed the Bell riots.

[–] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago

But we do (did) already have "Sanctuary Cities"

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (2 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.

[–] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (3 children)

There are, on average, over four warehouse fires per day in the US. The recent coverage is just media stickiness, similar to the coverage of train derailments a few years ago.

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[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

People here are talking like WW3 didn't already start. How long after Franz Ferdinand was shot did people decide that was the start of WW1/The Great War?

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

the ones in 1974?

[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 42 points 1 month 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!

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 17 points 1 month ago

C'mon ya green-blooded freaks!

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

And here's how we'll be responding in this universe:

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[–] homes@piefed.world 37 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] starik@lemmy.zip 33 points 1 month ago

WW2 killed about 3% of the world’s population.

[–] albbi@piefed.ca 17 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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

[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 12 points 1 month ago (1 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.

[–] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I could easily see nukes being dropped on the US, albeit they'd mysteriously only target Blue states and historically Blue cities.

[–] justaman123@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

There's only like 5 red cities and they all have fewer than a million residents. So the blue city moniker basically just means large city

[–] homoludens@feddit.org 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 month ago

How about stubbing your toe?

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[–] Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca 31 points 1 month ago (6 children)

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

Stop the world, I wanna get off.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

For any non-trekkies still living in New Zealand...you may wish to relocate.

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

That's when you learn we're not in the Star Trek timeline, we're in the Gundam timeline.

[–] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And on the 250th bday of the US.

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[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 29 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Meh, Ireland is supposed to be reunited by now.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 month ago

I blame the temporal war.

Clearly Irish unification leads to Star Trek timeline equally as much as the forever war, and was easier to prevent.

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[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 27 points 1 month 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.

[–] 13igTyme@piefed.social 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

One miiiiight argue that 2020 BLM protests count? In a way? Too early, granted.

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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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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[–] danhab99@programming.dev 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Dax was born in 2018.

The future seemed so far away back then

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[–] usernamefactory@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 month ago (1 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.

[–] cattywampas@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month 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.

[–] usernamefactory@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month 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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[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] Devadander@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They were already doing this in WWII

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[–] HalfSalesman@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month 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.

[–] yakko@feddit.uk 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Honestly, being in the Star Trek timeline would be worth it to die horribly. I don't even care at this point.

[–] BillyClark@piefed.social 4 points 1 month ago

If it starts in 2026 and goes on until 2053, then the one thing that can't happen is that everyone is 100% instantly vaporized.

[–] flandish@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month 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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[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month 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.

[–] bufalo1973@piefed.social 6 points 1 month ago

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

[–] remon@ani.social 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 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.

[–] Akasazh@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Even as a swamp German I love them.

Aber Bernie, was hast du mit das ejaculat gemacht ?

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[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 6 points 1 month ago

Would not surprise me even a little bit.

[–] joan@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

World war 3 will start in 2026 and end in 2026

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