Timeline for Why did Starfleet abandon Turkana IV?
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| Aug 20, 2021 at 23:26 | comment | added | Rainbow | @Nu'Daq Melota! | |
| Aug 6, 2021 at 17:28 | comment | added | Valorum | memory-beta.fandom.com/wiki/Turkana_IV - The Federation was asked to leave by the legitimate government and really had no choice but to do so, short of invasion | |
| Aug 5, 2021 at 18:30 | comment | added | M. A. Golding | Nothng says that Kirk grew up on Tarsus IV. NOthing says how much or little time Kirk spent there before and after the faminine and massacre, and nothing says anything about whether his parents and siblings were also on Tarsus IV. Making simple & reasonable - but not certain - chronological assumptions, one can deduce that Kirk was about 13 at the time of the massacre. | |
| Aug 5, 2021 at 17:45 | comment | added | Harper - Reinstate Monica | @Zeiss there'd be no reason for states to stop being states, I'm sure Ohio will still be Ohio. They might be on the same governmental tier as Scotland, Belgium and the JAO, but I'm sure the capitol will still be Columbus and the territory will be about the same, give or take the Toledo Strip. | |
| Aug 5, 2021 at 16:41 | comment | added | lucasbachmann | @Zeiss Ikon Also - Kirk wasn't from Iowa until Star Trek IV. The original Star Trek was not nearly as Earth centric as later iterations. Even the inventor of warp drive Zephram Cochrane was from Alpha Centauri originally. | |
| Aug 5, 2021 at 13:58 | comment | added | pboss3010 | @ZeissIkon He was born on Iowa, but at some point Kirk moves to Tarsus IV, where he becomes one of the witnesses to Kodos the Executioner's massacre. I don't remember how old he was though. | |
| Aug 5, 2021 at 13:25 | comment | added | Zeiss Ikon | @lucasbachmann "Kirk grew up on a colony" -- huh? Everything I've seen and read says Kirk grew up in what had been Ohio... | |
| Aug 5, 2021 at 9:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSciFi/status/1423207162105507841 | ||
| Aug 5, 2021 at 7:08 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Aug 4, 2021 at 23:28 | comment | added | lucasbachmann | Out universe I think it was an attempt to establish a TOS style notion that the frontier is dangerous and civilization needs constant effort. Note how Kirk grew up on a colony with a food shortage that turned genocidal. As for a legal precedent there are far more episodes that establish starfleet doesn't think the prime directive really applies to humans despite being centuries separated. | |
| Aug 4, 2021 at 23:13 | comment | added | Ham Sandwich | Episode titles go in quotation marks. | |
| Aug 4, 2021 at 22:35 | answer | added | Paul D. Waite | timeline score: 13 | |
| Aug 4, 2021 at 22:32 | comment | added | Paulie_D | My reading is that this was a lost Earth colony which pre-dated the forming of the Federation, Hence the no-contact rule may have applied. | |
| Aug 4, 2021 at 22:30 | comment | added | Anthony X | Out-of-universe: It may have been a poorly thought through premise in support of an action story where the crew is pulled into a moral and emotional conflict because of just one person. If true, it may be difficult or impossible to explain in-universe. | |
| Aug 4, 2021 at 22:19 | history | edited | Paul D. Waite | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 4, 2021 at 22:09 | history | asked | Nu'Daq | CC BY-SA 4.0 |