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Post by Kossuth on Oct 5, 2014 8:16:03 GMT -5
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Post by DGM Soft Kitty on Oct 5, 2014 18:32:29 GMT -5
Hehe I was so little when this was going on! But my Daddy, being in the Army, proudly served his country! Remember all of those posters put up during the time? and slogans like "Be The Man, Take Down Superman!" Seriously though, I love that this exists and shows a diff between our timeline and Trek's. Even though the timelines are different, they still show what humanity can overcome together and become for both timelines I always loved the idea of this war plus it gave us one of the, if not the Best Star Trek Villain of All time! This version, by the way ... SO not this one... Just Kitty's two cents!
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Post by Lt. jg Devon Robins on Oct 5, 2014 19:03:01 GMT -5
Oh man, the wikipedia pages for this are so informative! Thank god that's over with.
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Post by DGM Soft Kitty on Oct 6, 2014 2:41:04 GMT -5
[LOL Wow Devon that rocked!] (In the same spirit) Colonel Daddy's Tank (Cpt. then) In the New Jersey Pine Barrens during the May Offensive of 1992 - on loan from the DGMSoftkitty family albumWe were just happy to have him home safe after '96
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Post by Lt Commander Marcus Aquila on Oct 6, 2014 10:18:37 GMT -5
I still feel so sorry for any guy that wanted to date kitty in high school. Most dads use shotguns to intimidate. Hers had a tank.
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Post by Kossuth on Oct 6, 2014 22:41:05 GMT -5
This version, by the way ... SO not this one... Just Kitty's two cents! One fan theory is that "John Harrison" is not Khan Noonien Singh (AKA Khan from TOS/ST2.) The idea is that "Khan" is a title, not a name. Harrison happened to be the first augment to be woken up, so he took the title of Khan.
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Post by Lieutenant jg Ezri Tegan on Oct 8, 2014 16:20:38 GMT -5
Of course the biggest problem with this eugenics war timeline, is of course this:
The SS Botany Bay, With its nuclear powered engines, artificial gravity, and suspended animation canisters. Most of that technology is at best theoretical even today. In the 90's Earth had no manned interstellar capabilities to speak of. Additionally Voyager, as they seemed to do regularly and gleefully smashed Star Trek canon by depicting the 90's free from the effects of the Eugenics war in the episode "Future's End."
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Post by Lt. jg Devon Robins on Oct 9, 2014 0:45:36 GMT -5
Of course the biggest problem with this eugenics war timeline, is of course this:
[Snip pic of Botany Bay, vessel of tyrant Khan. Who wasn't white.] The SS Botany Bay, With its nuclear powered engines, artificial gravity, and suspended animation canisters. Most of that technology is at best theoretical even today. In the 90's Earth had no manned interstellar capabilities to speak of. Additionally Voyager, as they seemed to do regularly and gleefully smashed Star Trek canon by depicting the 90's free from the effects of the Eugenics war in the episode "Future's End." It is well known that the West Coast of the United States suffered little damage in either the Eugenics War or WW3, which is why it eventually became the hub for United Earth and Federation bureaucracy instead of cities such as Chicago and New York. As for the Botany Bay, it theorized it was a special augment project. Augment scientists tended to be something of the mad scientist type, and didn't disseminate information as readily as glorious non-Augment academic culture. [[The following had been fanon justification. Personally I can't disagree with Ent's possible decision to move up the Eugenics Wars to the 2020's and beyond, as we got the Internet instead of genetic Supermen. On the other hand, I could easily see most of the Eugenics wars being confined to Asia, the Middle East, Eastern Europe... and Australia as that is roughly described as their zone of control. It's a little amusing to reinterpret 90's conflicts such as Gulf War I, Chechnya, the Balkans conflict, etc as as concerted effort to throw off the yoke of Khan and his superhuman cronies and allow baseline humans to have freedom once more .]]
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Post by Lt Cmdr Billie Jo Spencer MD on Oct 9, 2014 12:24:51 GMT -5
Continuity has always been the bane of Sci-Fi set in the future, especially future Earth. The more the writers go into the "history" of their world the more trouble they can run into. Another issue is when the "future" they depicted is no longer the future. REference works such as "1984" and "Space 1999." I watched Space 1999 on the wb and thought "wow the future sure looks cool and really seventies for the ninties, then I was like, "oh. never mind."
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