Specter177 ✈️ 🌈: If I recall, the original timeline had WWIII start with a conflict between a Chinese lead alliance and a renamed EU, with the Eugenics war being a separate earlier thing, but I think Picard changed that to them being either the same thing or concurrent? Haven't watched S2 or 3 of Picard.

I feel like “darts” is the odd item out in this list of (presumably) Americana. In any case, a gentle reminder that the USA has hundreds of missiles carrying nuclear warheads ready to launch… …and that the President of the United States has virtually unrestricted nuclear launch authority.

I don't think Quark is naming American things, he's naming Earth things, and all he knows is stuff Bashir, Sisko, and O'Brien have shown him, which includes darts.

the (rather grim) implication of 60s-90s Trek is that the US was the big winner of the Eugenics/Third World War.

(Sulu is from San Francisco. Kim codes Asian-American very hard. Sato is from Japan. We don't see an Asian from Asia as a major character until I think Georgiou on Discovery? One or two South Asian characters.)

I'm pretty sure Keiko's family is mentioned to be from Japan, and I THINK Hoshi is also from Japan.

Yeah, I messed up - should have said "An Asian from mainland Asia." Forgot that Georgiou (like Michelle Yeoh) is canonically of Malaysian descent.

If I recall, the original timeline had WWIII start with a conflict between a Chinese lead alliance and a renamed EU, with the Eugenics war being a separate earlier thing, but I think Picard changed that to them being either the same thing or concurrent? Haven't watched S2 or 3 of Picard.

SNW has a scene that implies all the time travel interference from the temporal Cold War has shifted khan and the eugenics wars to a later time period

sure, it has that _now_ - until the next set of time travelers roll in!

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