History WMG / StarTrek

There are a lot of things that don't fit for a direct prequel, and in "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow" Sera mentions the Eugenics wars moving from the 90s (as stated in TOS) to the mid 21st century (as La'an remembers) due to various attempts to change the timeline.

[[WMG: Discovery and Strange New Worlds take place in a slightly different timeline to TOS.]]

Ditto for the Klingons and Cardassians. Don't get me started on the Ferengi. Furthermore, while the federation is using dilithum to power their ships, the Romulans are using a forced quantum singularity, moving them up a little further along the Kardashev scale than anyone else. Their smugness might just be deserved, in that they feel like they're dealing with the retarded kid from down the street that keeps picking fights with them and losing.

If you've messed about with Stable Diffusion or [=ChatGPT=] or whatever you'll know how possible it is to have the software generate content from a reasonably detailed prompt. Now look at how characters on Star Trek can seemingly program the holodeck by entering a verbal prompt. Or how Picard (I think) on first using the Dixon Hill programs marvels at the level of extra historical detail that is put into the program that doesn't need to be there- how is that achieved? Well, it could be an advanced form of machine learning...

If you've messed about with Stable Diffusion or [=ChatGPT=] or whatever you'll know how possible it is to have the software generate content from a reasonably detailed prompt. Now look at how characters on Star Trek can seemingly program the holodeck by entering a verbal prompt. Or how Picard (I think) on first using the Dion hill programs marvels at the level of extra historical detail that is put into the program that doesn't need to be there- how is that achieved? Well, it could be an advanced form of machine learning...

If you've messed about with Stable Diffusion or [=ChatGPT=] or whatever you'll know how possible it is to have the software generate content from a reasonably detailed prompt. Now look at how characters on Star Trek can seemingly progrma the holodeck by entiering a verbal prompt. Or how Picard (I think) on first using the Dion hill programs marvels at the level of extra historical detail that is put into the program that doesn't need to be there- how is that acheived? Well, it could be an advanced form of machine learning...

[[WMG: (Insert Star Trek Series Here) was created by LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya]]

If you've messed about with Stable Diffusion or ChatGPT or whatever you'll know how possible it is to have the software generate content from a reasonably detailed prompt. Now look at how characters on Star Trek can seemingly progrma the holodeck by entiering a verbal prompt. Or how Picard (I think) on first using the Dion hill programs marvels at the level of extra historical detail that is put into the program that doesn't need to be there- how is that acheived? Well, it could be an advanced form of machine learning...

--> '''Atkins:''' Whenever you give a man something for nothing[,] the first person he comes to dislike is you. If the pump is going to work at all, it has to be their pump, not mine.

Face it, KlingonPromotion isn't all that easy to pull off in-universe. You risk being killed in the attempt, or if you survive but fail, torture and execution is more or less inevitable. Even successful attempts, if Mirror!Chekhov's dialogue (along the lines of "Starfleet Command won't question the assassination of a Captain who disobeys orders") is anything to go by, may be questioned by the higher-ups. And this disorder might only be endemic by the 23rd century- if I recall, the reaction to Archer [[spoiler: and later, Sato]] in ''Enterprise'' by a few characters seems to be much more "what the hell?" but this could be simply out of their sheer audacity.

The ones that fail die or go crazy. The ones that succeed, even to a small degree, pull off feats of greater-than-0%-is-100%-Awesome that should be impossible for any mere AI. A side effect of this is the prevalence of PinocchioSyndrome among such successful beings, like [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Data]] and [[Series/StarTrekVoyager The Doctor]].

** Or the result of exploring the ramifications of Roddenberry's MarySuetopia.

*** Spock said that ''pon farr'' was a "thing that no outworlder may know, except those very few who have been involved," "even we do not speak of it among ourselves," and that it was a "deeply personal thing."

** But... isn't this basically true for ''every work of fiction on Wiki/TVTropes''?

This may also account for the occasional anomalies in various characters' behavior patterns: whenever Mirror Kirk does something irrational that leads to someone living who would otherwise have died, that's because his counterpart is rescuing the very same person in his universe. Whenever the regular Kirk takes a foolish chance that gets a RedShirt killed, that's because Mirror Kirk is having that very same RedShirt executed for some infraction or other in his universe. This goes as far back as Archer's time or maybe even further: Forrest ultimately was doomed to die in the one universe because he had already died in the other. Likewise, though Hitler may actually have won World War II in the Mirror Universe, he may ultimately have succumbed to a case of PyrrhicVillainy that ultimately gave the USA greater influence over the Terran Empire.

* Converting energy to matter generates an equal ammount of antimatter, which, of course, is what the ship runs on. So they teleport the antimatter straight into the reactor/fuel tanks.

In that book, which is a novel abot the US mostly faling diplomacy in the fictional country of Sarkhan,the main good guy believes that (and I could find a relevant quote that would explain better when I feel like it, but I found one on the books page here) to truly help the Sarkhanians he should use technology that they can understand, so they can be partners in the project, uses pedal power because Sarkan has a lot of bicycles. Also, this year (2022) I heard about a way missionaries were going to help get people clean water by basically building a box, filling it with rocks, pebbles and sand, and filtering the water with that much like the Earth does. The missionaries thought this was genius, and I agree.

[[WMG: The Prime Directive exists because somone, in-universe or not, read ''The Ugly American''.]]
In that book, which is a novel abot the US mostly faling diplomacy in the fictional country of Sarkhan,the main good guy believes that (and I could find a relevant quote that would explain better when I feel like it) to truly help the Sarkhanians he should use technology that they can understand, so they can be partners in the project, uses pedal power because Sarkan has a lot of bicycles. Also, this year (2022) I heard about a way missionaries were going to help get people clean water by basically building a box, filling it with rocks, pebbles and sand, and filtering the water with that much like the Earth does. The missionaries thought this was genius, and I agree.

Mentions of Leningrad, meanwhile, are simply referring to the still-extant oblast (county) rather than the city currently known as St. Petersburg.

[[WMG: The warp drive is fed from the leavings of the replicators and transporter]]
* Converting energy to matter generates an equal ammount of {{antimatter}}, which, of course, is what the ship runs on. So they teleport the antimatter straight into the reactor. Since we never see them actually mining/making antimatter and it has to come from somwhere...

[[WMG: TheGreatPoliticsMessUp ''did'' happen.]]