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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 5 th, 2063 in Bozeman, Montana. ( Star Trek: First Contact ) The mirror universe equivalent of First Contact Day was also on April 5th.
The two-parter “In a Mirror, Darkly,” which takes place in Star Trek’s Mirror Universe, opens with the First Contact scene of the first Human/Vulcan meeting. It unfolds almost exactly as it does in the film, until Cochrane — instead of shaking the alien‘s hand — marks First Contact Day by shooting and killing the alien. The nearby ...
Apr 5, 2020 · As with so many things, the morality plays presented in Star Trek are guiding lights. 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 ...
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Mirror Universe. The Mirror Universe is the setting of several narratives in the Star Trek science fiction franchise, a parallel universe existing alongside, but separate from, the fictional universe that is the main setting of Star Trek. It resembles the main Star Trek universe, but is populated by more violent and opportunistic doubles of its ...
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine continued the story of the Mirror Universe for five episodes over the course of its seven seasons. In the first Mirror Universe episode, "Crossover," Major Kira Nerys (Nana Visitor) and Dr. Julian Bashir (Alexander Siddig) accidentally traveled to the alternate reality of the 24th century, where they learned that the Terran Empire was conquered by an alliance led by ...
Jan 22, 2018 · Star Trek: The Original Series Era: Changing Fortunes. Our first-ever encounter with the Mirror Universe in the original series episode “Mirror, Mirror” is set just a decade after the events ...
Apr 5, 2023 · By Blair Marnell. StarTrek.com / Rob DeHart. Today is First Contact Day, the annual Star Trek celebration of Zefram Cochrane ’s warp drive test flight and humanity’s subsequent first encounter with the Vulcans as seen in Star Trek: First Contact. Within the film, that event took place on April 5, 2063, a mere 40 years from today.
