>humanity was the most technologically backward and unimpressive civilization
>somehow became the dominant race in the Federation, in population, politics, relevance, and positions of power
Explain this.
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They didn’t take shit from anyone and stood up for what was right no matter the odds against them.
They insisted upon themselves
How very shallow and pedantic
That's not how Gene Roddenberry saw it. The next gen commie writers see it that way. buttholes.
The canon reason is they were propped up by time travelers, so they got away with more shit than could ever make sense, so the rest of the galaxy either fell in behind them or fought.
We are also the only race that has common sense.
This, more or less. The advanced humanoid species like Time Lords and the Q preferred humanity to all the other stuff those weird bald precursors made, so they got preferential treatment and subtly nudged toward dominance.
Europe was behind Egypt, Mesopotamia, India and China.
Humans don't fall into patterns of nihilism or stagnation as easily as Vulcans. They are more trusting than Andorians and easier to get along with than Tellarites. They're less warlike than Klingons, but willing to defend themselves fiercely. They're pragmatic like Romulans but not so brutally that they degenerate into an ouroborous of paranoia. We are balanced. It's not a new concept.
That's not how it happened at all. It was a long road getting from there to here.
but we've got faith of the heart.
Faustian Spirit, can't beat it, no way.
How Star Trek galactic politics works:
>Alien Race: "What if we myopically do one thing over and over again even if it bites us in the ass?"
>Humans: "Uh, we used to do that until we decided to build an egalitarian socialist utopia instead."
>Alien Race: "What? Why didn't I think of that..."
Because as that early episode in Enterprise showed, humans managed to make more progress with an alien race in a few days than Vulcans had in centuries. Being social, co-operative, diplomatic and adaptable is more important than having tech. Vulcans are up their own ass, Klingons & Andorians too militaristic & authoritative, Ferengi too greedy etc. Humans have charisma and a good heart in comparison to the other races.
>Explain this.
Because Romulans.
If the Romulans hadn't tried using false flag attacks to trigger a regional war, then the Vulcans, Andorians, and Tellarites never would've had a reason to set aside their long-standing grudges to beef with the Romulans. Never underestimate the unifying power of "MAN, FRICK THIS GUY."
Then Earth gets into a brutal war with the Romulans, and singlehandedly kicks them back into their own turf. Since everyone else in local space was beefing with the Romulans, they're like "OK, let's buddy up with these guys."
Throughout Star Trek lore, the Klingons pull off the occasional nasty tricky, but the Romulans are a bunch of frickwits from beginning to end. They literally cannot stop themselves from undertaking a futile, self-destructive scheme. From the Chameleon Ship thing with Archer right through burning Mars just to kill a few synths at the cost of their evacuation fleet.
Akoochimoya we are pretty fricking far from fine
Ahahaha
It probably has something to do with how diverse our planet is. All the other civs look uniformly the same and only squabble over petty shit like who gets more space heroin, we actually had to work through our genocidal tendencies. Notice the only real threats to the feds were organizations made up of multiple species, Borg, Dominion, Xindi. Romulans being somewhat of an outlier, but even they had their golem subservient species.
>USA was the most technologically backward and unimpressive New World colony
>somehow became the dominant race in Earth, in population, politics, relevance, and positions of power
Explain this.
>Material resources
>geographic isolation
>No monarchy
That is literally all it takes to have freedom and prosperity.
maybe because humans, mostly white humans, like to explore.
the Vulcans don't really care to explore for the sake of exploring. even on Earth and in Earth's history, did anybody besides Europeans really explore. don't even say Zheng He because it was a diplomatic mission to show off China's power and it wasn't like he went to places they didn't know existed.
so what others do stupid shit like climb mountains, explore polar regions or just do shit to do it?
you do see other species in Star Fleet but the majority are human. the Federation is all about sharing scientific information and letting each culture take care of their own planetary concerns.
Zheng He tried to push the envelope, but his Emperor would have none of it.
At least he didn't get eaten by natives.
Do any of the series go into the first contact between humans and aliens. I'd like to watch the show on chronological order and don't mind mixing episodes of different series. Has any autist created an episode list like this?
one episode and one movie show the "First Contact" with different perspectives, but both imply time travel and cannot really be watched out of context, in particular the movie.
Humans are always innovating.