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<blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 4827292" data-attributes="member: 14159">Well, as I recall my Trek lore.&nbsp; The history of Trek was that there was a World War III fought as a nuclear war in the 2050's between the United States and its allies and a bloc of Asian nations called the Eastern Coalition.&nbsp; The world spent decades rebuilding, but about 10 years after the war Zephram Cochrane invented the first warp drive, and attracted Vulcan attention and making contact with intelligent, friendly and somewhat advanced alien life accelerated the rebuilding process and ushered in a Renaissance that took mankind from post-apocalyptic horror to an interstellar spacefaring world with a united world government in a little less than a century.Doesn't seem so old-fashioned or utterly implausible.&nbsp; Cochrane building a warp drive in the ruins of the U.S. Pacific Northwest after a nuclear war is a little far, but he may well have been developing it before the war and spent the last 10 years doing the last work at a much slower pace.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="wingsandsword, post: 4827292, member: 14159"] Well, as I recall my Trek lore. The history of Trek was that there was a World War III fought as a nuclear war in the 2050's between the United States and its allies and a bloc of Asian nations called the Eastern Coalition. The world spent decades rebuilding, but about 10 years after the war Zephram Cochrane invented the first warp drive, and attracted Vulcan attention and making contact with intelligent, friendly and somewhat advanced alien life accelerated the rebuilding process and ushered in a Renaissance that took mankind from post-apocalyptic horror to an interstellar spacefaring world with a united world government in a little less than a century. Doesn't seem so old-fashioned or utterly implausible. Cochrane building a warp drive in the ruins of the U.S. Pacific Northwest after a nuclear war is a little far, but he may well have been developing it before the war and spent the last 10 years doing the last work at a much slower pace. [/QUOTE]

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