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Apr 4, 2023 · What is the Significance of First Contact Day? First Contact Day pays tribute to the flight of the warp-capable Phoenix and the pivotal first interaction between humans and Vulcans, which occurred on April 5, 2063.
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First Contact Day was a holiday celebrated to honor both the warp 1 flight of the Phoenix and first open contact between Humans and Vulcans on April 5th, 2063 in Bozeman, Montana. (Star Trek: First Contact)
(ENT: "In a Mirror, Darkly"; DIS: "Die Trying")
When Captain Kathryn Janeway was a child, the holiday was just considered a day off from school. Later, at least some schools such as WSA continued to operate on First Contact Day. (VOY: "Homestead"; ST: "Children of Mars")
Naomi Wildman and Neelix planned the 315th observation of the event aboard the USS Voyager. The festivities included Zefram Cochrane's favorite food, cheese pierogies, and rock and roll music on Tom Paris' jukebox. At Neelix's insistence, Tuvok gave the Vulcan salute while reciting the greeting given by the Vulcans during first contact: "Live long and prosper." He did not see the point of it, but everyone in attendance applauded. (VOY: "Homestead")
During a battle in 2380, Commander Jack Ransom noted the USS Cerritos was being "carved up like a First Contact Day salmon." (LD: "No Small Parts")
On this day in 2385, the planet Mars was attacked by rogue synths. 92,143 people died in the attack. (ST: "Children of Mars"; PIC: "Remembrance", "Maps and Legends")
Background information
•Star Trek: First Contact co-writer Ronald D. Moore chose the date for first contact in honor of his son, Jonathan, whose birthday is April 5th. (Star Trek Encyclopedia (4th ed., vol. 1, p. 273); (AOL chat, 1997)) •First Contact Day was also cited in the first draft of the script for ENT: "Fusion" (which had the working title "Equilibrium"). In that script, Trip Tucker told Fraht about this holiday, commenting about it, "'That's kind of dull... just an excuse for kids to get the day off from school." •First Contact Day has become adopted by the Star Trek franchise in the real world as a date to publicly celebrate Star Trek in the broadest sense as an elaborate annual public relations event, and uses the occasion to announce new releases for that year – those of merchandise in particular. The event was instituted in 2021, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns as a kind of a "pick-me-up" (the first event therefore conducted virtually by remote digital means), ànd to celebrate the 25th anniversary of First Contact, the film in which the date was established.
Further Reading
•"First Contact Day: Shaping a Legacy", Joe Fordham, Star Trek: First Contact - The Making of the Classic Film, pp. 140-159
External link
•First Contact Day at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
First Contact theory: the "mirror universe" is the timeline where the enterprise didn't interfere. In the beginning of the mirror universe episode of Enterprise zephram Cochran shoots the Vulcan ambassador and steals his tech forming the beginnings of the Terran Empire.
Apr 5, 2020 · The original First Contact Day, April 5, 2063, featured such a moment as the human race knowingly encountered a species from another world, the Vulcans. In the aftermath of World War III, this initial encounter with a new civilization changed the course of the world.
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The mirror universe was a parallel universe widely recorded as first being visited by James T. Kirk and several officers from the USS Enterprise in 2267, though in reality already encountered by the USS Discovery around a decade earlier. This parallel universe coexisted with the prime universe in the same space, but on another dimensional plane.
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Dec 5, 2020 · This was the day of First Contact with the Vulcans, who landed in Boseman, Montana after Zephram Cochrane (James Cromwell) became the first human to achieve warp flight.
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First Contact Day is an informal commemorative day observed annually on April 5 to celebrate the Star Trek media franchise, and was created by Ronald D. Moore, screenwriter of the 1996 film Star Trek: First Contact. [1] He chose the day based on his eldest son's birthday.
