Space, the final frontier, but a lot will have to
happen before we finally find a home among the
stars. As we begin to send spacecraft further and
develop a presence on the moon, it's hard to
imagine how humanity will be able to pilot craft
to distant galaxies. One man looked at the
possibilities and created an alternate universe we
are able to experience daily. That man was Gene
Roddenberry and that universe he created is called
Star Trek. Karra and I are not Trekkies but we do
find the exploits of the Federation of Planets a
familiar environment. Watching a collection of
entities from various star systems interact in a
constructive manner is just like life in Ashtar
Command. April 5th of this year will mark a day
where forty years in the future when a fictional
Dr. Zefram Cochrane will shake the hand of a
Vulcan who had just made first contact.
In that reality, the meeting took place after the
world had gone through massive changes starting in
the 90s with the Eugenics War that created
genetically enhanced beings like Khan. Then came
World War III from 2026 to 2053 where countless
nuclear bombs fell and governments across the
planet collapsed. Somehow all life was not
extinguished from the aftermath of the destruction
and what powers that were left in control met in
San Francisco to hash out a peace treaty. Nearly
30 years of war had changed people's minds about
the wisdom of waging such a self-defeating
endeavor. From there it was a chance to rebuild
and one of the places where the rebuilding was
taking place was in Bozeman Montana. There, using
a disused nuclear missile, Zefram Cochrane was
planning his first test flight of a warp engine in
early April of 2063.
Those who have seen the movie First Contact will
know what happens then as a Vulcan science ship
passing near saw the successful breaking of the
warp barrier and landed to meet its pilot. Over
the next century everything changed with the
knowledge of more advanced beings who were willing
to help humanity make the advancements needed to
become a spacefaring race. Bits of new technology
would be shared a little at a time instead of all
at once to allow a transition that wasn't too
harsh on the population of the planet. With the
elimination of money and poverty also came the
elimination of diseases and worldwide tensions.
That led to the birth of a United Earth Government
and eventually the creation of Starfleet. The rest
is the future.
Back here in 2023, we just have regular war with
the aspect of a nuclear war starting that same
story in real life being ever present. It's hard
to imagine going from a 195 countries down to a
united world government without some kind of major
changes that essentially force its formation. Gene
Roddenberry was a visionary who accurately
described Ashtar Command if they operated in the
third dimension. One important difference between
the Star Trek world and the real world is that the
benevolent extraterrestrials are not waiting for
us to achieve warp ability before helping us out.
They are proactively doing so through channelings
we post at the Hades Base News and the thousands
of other websites like ours.
