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Skriven 2000-12-16 00:13:31 av Michael Cronsten (2:205/412)
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 MC> I ett av TOS-avsnitten, eller möjligen någon av långfilmerna, 
 MC> beskriver James T. Kirk att universum innehåller mängder av 
 MC> människoliknande raser. Att det är fyllt av mänskligt liv. 
 MC> 
 MC> Men vilket avsnitt eller film? 
 
Jag fick nog av att titta på TV & stängde av den nyss när dom visade en repris
av serien med John Carlsson (?) Följa John, den man som i Filmkrönikan för
ett/nåt år sen sa att Star Trek med dess tekniksvammel var bara skräp, tacka
visste han Starwars. Usch... 
 
 
Nu har jag hittat det citatet jag var ute efter. I avsnittet Metamorphosis av
ST TOS har Kirk, Spock, Bones, och en sjuk passagerare kommissionären Nancy
Hedford när dom färdades i rymdskytteln dragits ner av en okänd kraft till en
planet. Där nere upptäcker dom en ensam man som det visar sig är den välkände
Zefram Cochrane, den som upptäckte warp-drift. Problemet är bara att han dog
för 150 år sen. Zefram berättar att han var 87 år, och reste ut i rymden för
att dö där, när plötsligt hans farkost blev manöveroduglig, och han räddades
av en okänd kraft, ett till synes gasmoln med norrskenliknande ljusegenskaper
som satte ner hans farkost säkert på planetens yta. Efter ett tag märkte han
hur han blev yngre, och snart var han i trettioårsåldern, i den åldern höll
han sig sen. Han lärde sig snart kommunicera med den okända
kraften/varelsen/gasmolnet, och efter 150 år uttryckte han önskemål att få
lämna planeten eftersom det började kännas lite ensamt. Det var då gasmolnet
tog ner Kirks sällskap av fyra personer för att hålla honom sällskap. 
 
Gasmolnet kallade han Kamraten (the Companion). Kirk och Spock bygger om
rymdfärjans universella språköversättare så att den även kan översätta
Kamratens elektriska tankevågor till talad engelska, och då visar det sig
vara en kvinna. Zefram blir inte glatt överraskad när han först då inser att
Kamraten varit kär i honom i 150 år. 
 
Kirk frågar ut Zefram Cochrane, och Zefram som varit avskiljd från
teknikutvecklingen frågar Kirk: 
 
Cochrane: 
What's it like out there, in the galaxy? 
 
Kirk: 
We're on a thousand planets, and spreading out. We cross fantastic distances,
and everything's alive, cochrane, life everywhere. We estimate there are
millions of planets with intelligent life. We haven't begun to map them.
Interesting? 
 
Cochrane: 
How would you like to go asleep for a hundred and fifty years and wake up in 
a new world? 
 
 
Alltså: 
Hur är det där ute i galaxen, nuförtiden? 
 
Vi finns på tusentals planeter, och antalet ökar. Vi kan resa över otroliga
avstånd, och allting lever, Cochrane, det finns liv överallt. Vi beräknar att
det finns miljontals planeter med intelligent liv. Vi har knappt börjat att
kartlägga dem. Intressant? 
 
Hur skulle _du_ gilla att gå och lägga dig och sedan vakna upp efter
hundrafemtio år till en helt ny värld? 
 
 
Star-Trek-avsnittet slutar med att Kamraten övertar den döende Nancy Hedfords
kropp, och hon och Zefram stannar kvar på planeten mot löfte från Kirk att han
inte ska avslöja hans existens. 
 
 
Cochrane föddes år 2025, och var som sagt den som upptäckte warp-drift, den
princip genom vilken man skapar konstgjord gravitation vilken förmår flytta
farkoster/rymdskepp snabbare än ljushastigheten. Den första fungerande
farkosten byggdes år 2063, och gick till grannstjärnsystemet Alfa Centauri,
en resa som tack vare warp-driften "bara" tog fyra år. Färden startade 2054
och kom fram år 2059 till den första för människan kända andra varelsetyp än
vi själva. 
 
Här följer en timeline över dessa händelser, som jag hittat på DAN:
(http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Corridor/7835/cochrane.html) 
 
 
 
2025 
Zefram Cochrane, the creator of warp drive, is born 
 
 
2028 August 12 [reference stardate 0/2808.12] 
Astronomers on Alpha Centauri pick up intelligent signals from outside their
system. These signals will later be identified as originating from Vulcan 
 
 
2036, May [reference stardate 0/3605] 
Terran space-time researchers find holes in the general theory of relativity,
making faster-than-light communications and travel theoretically possible,
though not yet an actuality. The interstellar probe 
U.N.P. "Drake" ("Wells" series) detects geon holes in the space-time fabric
for the first time. These deformations are used decades later for warp
communications. 
 
The "Drake" probe was one of 15 launched from Earth's moon in the early 2030s.
The series had a fourfold increase in effective range and a ten-fold
improvement in data gathering and analyzing 
capability over the earlier "Stellar" series, employing significantly
increased artificial intelligence enabling them to make much more complex
decisions on their own sending back whatever pictures and 
data they deemed important 
 
 
2039, January [reference stardate 0/3901] 
Terra's first Pluto Base opens. It will serve as a navigational checkpoint for
out system missions. 
 
 
2042, 23 June [reference stardate 0/4206.23] 
The U.N.S.S. "Icarus" sets sail for the closest neighboring star system, Alpha
Centauri, commanded by Captain Roger Tauber. The estimated travel time for the
voyage is six years. This 8,600 
metric ton craft is powered by a high acceleration, sublight speed Bussard
ramjet. A crowd of several thousand people watch nearby as the spacecraft is
launched from Luna, while billions watch 
live, televised coverage, carrying a complement of 40. At age 17, Zefram
Cochrane is the youngest scientist to be aboard. While on board he will
continue his studys and receive many degrees in 
multiple areas of science. 
 
 
2045, January [reference stardate 0/4501] 
A Vulcan scoutship crashlands on Earth. The survivors secretly leave Earth in
a stolen DY-100 vessel with help from Captain Kirk and his officers one of
which was Gary Mitchell. They were 
transported from the 23rd century by accident on an away mission transport to
the surface of Delta Vega. The entire incident is covered up until the late
23rd Century when Kirk remembers the 
incident with the help of Spock and a Vulcan mindmeld. When Kirk and crew
return to thier own century they are just finishing the transport to the
Delta Vega planets surface to strand Gary Mitchell 
there because of his new and dangerous powers. None of them remember anything
of the side trip to 21st century Earth. As for Gary Mitchell, he lost his
powers on his stay in the 21st cantury but 
they returned when he returned to the 23rd century. 
(TOS Pilot Episode: Where no man has gone before) 
 
 
2048 
The U.N.S.S. "Icarus" makes contact with the inhabitants of Alpha Centauri
VII. This is Earth's first official extraterrestrial contact. The Centaurians
are quite humanoid, descendants of Greeks 
transported from Earth in the 3rd Century. This event forever changes
Humankind 
 
 
2048 December [reference stardate 0/4812] 
While on and after meeting the scientists of Alpha Centauri VII, Dr. Zefram
Cochrane, age 23 discovers the space warp at the Alpha Centauri Scientific
Institute. The information is transmitted to 
Earth. 
 
 
2051 
While on board the Icarus on its return voyage to Earth, Dr. Zefram Cochrane,
age 26, formulates the initial warp drive calculations that will make
faster-than-light possible and, eventually, practical. 
This information is also transmitted to Earth. 
 
 
2052, April [reference stardate 0/5204] 
The Warp Drive Principle transmission from Zefram Cochrane, age 27, reaches
Earth entitled "Warp Drive". Zefram Cochrane's Warp Drive Principle causes a
sensation, and an intensive warp 
drive development program is immediately set up. 
 
 
2053 
Cochrane's Factor, the curvature of space-time by the presence of mass in
subspace, is discovered and transmitted to Earth. 
 
 
2054, September [reference stardate 0/5409] 
The "Icarus" returns from its historic journey. The United Nations dispatches
a mission to Alpha Centauri to open formal relations, discuss trade, and
exchange knowledge of each other's history. 
Cochrane, age 29, continues to work on his Warp Drive principals on Earth. 
 
 
2055 
Zefram Cochrane, age 30, developes the first warp engine prototype WD-1 and it
propels Rosy the chimpanzee at warp 1.5 during a successful controlled
experiment. The U.N.S.S. "Fisher," 
commanded by Captain Richard Hanna, recovers the prototype at the outer limits
of the Pluto Test Area. 
 
 
2057 
Zefram Cochrane, age 32, demonstrates a practical warp drive 
 
 
2059 
The UN mission that left Terra in 2054 arrives at Alpha Centauri, and
diplomatic relations begin 
 
 
2061 
At age 36, Zefram Cochrane and his team succeed in producing a prototype field
device of massive proportions. Described as a fluctuation superimpeller, it
finally allows an unmanned flight test 
vehicle to straddle the speed of light "wall," alternating between two
velocity states while remaining at neither for longer than Planck time. The
first continuum distortion propulsion (CDP) engines 
(only informally dubbed warp engines) are developed and incorporated into
existing spacecraft designs. Eventually Zefram Cochrane and his team of
engineers relocate to the Alpha Centauri 
colonies, (a 4-year CDP-powered voyage), to continue to pioneer warp physics. 
 
The S.S. "Bonaventure" (NCC- S1100) galactic survey cruiser, the first
starship with warp drive, is built and launched for Alpha Centauri with
Zefram Cochrane and team abord, still working as 
they journey and sending results back to Earth. After they arrive at Alpha
Centauri she will be given a trained crew and will mysteriously disappear on
her third voyage. 
 
 
2064 
Rapid improvements in warp drive technology results in the advanced "Verne"
class ships. These cruisers are the most popular of the early warp
spaceships, used for both interplanetary and 
interstellar missions. 
 
The U.N.S.S. "Amity" will make the first historical Vulcan contact and carry
the stranded Vulcan survivors back to their home world. These ships utilize
35:1 matter to antimatter fuel, have warp 2.7 
capability, a complement of 112, and are armed with 8 forward lasers and 50
fusion torpedoes. 
 
 
2064 July [reference stardate 0/6407] 
The "Franklin" series warp-driven message probe becomes operational. These
small, unmanned probes have rudimentary astrogational equipment, and are
capable of carrying a cargo of up to 0.1 
metric tons in addition to several hundred recorded messages. These probes are
later refitted with modern warp drives and used for the next three decades. A
total of 380 are built. 
 
 
2065 
A disabled starship from the planet Vulcan is rescued by the Solar Fleet: 42
survivors including 4 wounded under the command of Captain Sparon. After a
brief Earth stay they are returned to their 
home planet aboard the U.N.S.S. "Amity" ("Verne" class) cruiser, which rescued
them, commanded by Captain Peter O'Brian and begin diplomatic relations. This
is Earth's first official contact with 
the Vulcans. 
 
The fourth-dimensional (second-level) nature of dilithium crystals is
discovered. On Earth, a mad dilithium rush occurs when it is discovered that
dilithium crystals have a dozen different 
three-dimensional physical configurations which can make them resemble common
crystals. Many Earth museums become incredibly well funded overnight simply by
tearing apart their geology 
exhibits to find dilithium crystals which had been misidentified as quartz for
generations. It will be some time until the crystals are used to their full
potential in warp drives. 
 
 
2065 November 12 [reference stardate 0/6511.12] 
A "Franklin" series warp-drive probe encounters a Vulcan colony world. As they
have already developed the warp drive, Vulcan techniques substantially improve
on the original design. The S.S. 
"Cochrane" will establish contact with the colony on stardate 1135.7 
 
 
2087 
Beginnings of the United Federation of Planets. The first Babel Interplanetary
Conference is held. Tatiana Bilash is one of the elder statepersons present.
The stardate dating system is established. 
 
 
2089 
Zefram Cochrane, age 64, takes his last interstellar voyage. The next time he
will ever be seen is by Captain James T Kirk of the Star Ship Enterprise in
the 23rd century. 
 
 
Stardates 3219.4-3220.3 
Enroute to Epsilon Canaris III, the "Enterprise 1701" shuttlecraft "Galileo"
(NCC-1701/7) is hijacked in space to Gamma Canaris N by a gaseous life form
known as the Companion 
 
Episode #31 METAMORPHOSIS) 
 
Cochrane was glad to hear that his discoverys were put to such good use
throughout the years and Kirk got to meet one of his idols. This happened
almost 200 years after Cochrane disappeared on 
his last starflight. 
 
 
 
Mvh  Mi Cro / nanotekniker   
  
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