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Originally Posted by dy156
Not a trekkie, by any means, but...
Anyone remember the Star trek next generation episode where they go to a planet that's just flirting with space travel to the planet's nearest moon, are contacted by the enterprise, and the planet's government says our people aren't ready for the discovery of alien races, we'll focus on fixing problems here on the planet, come back in fifty years, or something like that?
That episode had frasier's girlfriend from Cheers in it.
Anyway, it made me ponder whether Kennedy could have done something like this, and now maybe the government was testing the story through a "leak" in a star trek episode. Kind of a similar idea, but I didn't think all that hard about it. Nice theory about Crichton, though. Just wondering if you thought of it late at night after a few beers. Sounds like something I might think about in that situation.
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excellent episode
The Enterprise was trying to make First Contact with that planet so they could convince the planet to initiate their Warp program to develop warp engines. The "king" or whatever of the planet said that their race or species wasn't ready for it yet, and basically to fuck off and come back after a long time
You basically summed it up well.
The only thing I could keep thinking about during that episode is: If this is a planet that's never been contacted by another before, why do they speak English?
But yeah, it'd be interesting if something like that actually happened. Maybe the Roswell cases in Area 51 or something was a First Contact for us, and we told them to fuck off and come back later!