But the Star Trek universe has not always been so comprehensively catalogued.
The Sexy Frontier
The slim paperback makes a surprising read today.
This passage has been quoted here in full to demonstrate that a close reading will reveal Kirk never actuallydeniesit.
This chronology doesnt even map to the tiny amount of continuityStar Trekalready had.
It also casts doubt onStar Treks claim at presupposed Miguel Alcubierres invention of the Alcubierre Drive theory.
This leaning into Ancient Aliens lore had predecessors and descendants in on-screen Trek lore.
Who Mourns for Adonis?
had already introduced us to the idea that the gods of Greek myth had been powerful aliens.
Even in the entire expanded on-screen Trek universe, Earth has always been a bit of a mystery.
It is very different to the one we have in modern Trek.
One of the first things to notice about Roddenberrys Future Earth is a question of scale.
From here Kirk travels to Los Angeles, by tube.
The New Humans
Yet aside from all these megastructures, we also see innovations in microtechnology.
Starfleet officers are the bravest, the smartest, the most adaptable.
A Reginald Barclay on the Enterprise is a 10 anywhere else.
But in his novel, Roddenberry pitches things… a little differently.
We are a highly conservative and strongly individualistic group.
By the time ofStar Trek, it is accepted those early disastrous missions were because Starfleets standards weretoo high.
To reiterate Starfleet policy is to recruit people too dumb to be won over by more advanced intelligences.
So what is the rest of humanity up to if theyre not running Creole restaurants?
This is where we come back to the mind control issue.
It is basically a description of Number One Star Trek Villain, the Borg.
