Star Trek promised us Irish unification two years ago, so I’m not holding my breath
I guess this needs to happen for WW3 to start. Clearly.
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.
Are you implying that fiction written way in the past cannot accurately predict current events? What’s next, no flying cars and public use hoverboards in 2015 (alright, they were actually pretty accurate with millionaire Biff Tannen)?
We already missed the Bell riots.
But we do (did) already have “Sanctuary Cities”
the ones in 1974?
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.
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.
You got a source for that? That seems like a crazy number
Industry group recorded 1544 warehouse fires per year between 2020 and 2024. [https://www.nfpa.org/education-and-research/research/nfpa-research/fire-statistical-reports/warehouse-structure-fires]
DOE number is slightly lower at 1477 per year over the same period.
Looking at figure 4, what the hell is happening in March?
Also, thanks for sending over the source
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?
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!
And here’s how we’ll be responding in this universe:
green-blooded
Dude, spoilers!
The face you make when you learn trek lore predicts WW3 starts in 2026
Stop the world, I wanna get off.
And on the 250th bday of the US.
Waittt really?
The Simpsons is the real prognosticator of the modern world.
I love how all the explosions are timed to the percussion. Did Michael Bay direct this music video?
The drummer is just on point 😉
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
If they start giving out drugs to troops, I’m signing back up!
They were already doing this in WWII
Yeah, but we’re not still fighting WW2, lol
Dax was born in 2018.
The future seemed so far away back then
My non trill ass immediately though, but Jadzia isn’t that old!
As long as everyone is 100% instantly vaporized I’m cool with it. It’d suck if anyone had to suffer the aftermath.
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.
World war 3 will start in 2026 and end in 2026
