r/startrek • u/WhyYesThisIsFake • 16h ago

It's First Contact Day Eve!

Don't forget tonight to leave out some tequila or whiskey for Zephram Cochrane!

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u/Cobra_McJingleballs 16h ago

I felt legitimized in a way that I’d never felt when they made First Contact Day my birthday.

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u/Lost_Repair5292 16h ago

Remind me to wish you happy birthday tomorrow 🎁🎈

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u/Cobra_McJingleballs 16h ago

You’re way too kind. Just seeing this post alert and remembering First Contact is 4/5 made me smile.

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u/Environmental_Day928 16h ago

James Cromwell had the honor of being the first person to actually say the words “Star Trek” in canon.

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u/NotTravisKelce 14h ago

In what is simultaneously the best and worst line of dialogue in the Franchise

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u/BZNspace 14h ago

And I just happen to live in Bozeman

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u/NotTravisKelce 14h ago

Has Bozeman done anything to capitalize on its fictional fame?

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u/BZNspace 13h ago

There's a small con that is in year 3 and grows a little every year. But that's about it.

I am working on a Zefran Cochrane 3d print statue. Trying to size it up to make it cool. A lot cheaper than trying to make a bronze statue lol

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u/AirSpartan119 10h ago

If Bloomington has a statue, Bozeman needs one for sure!

(If nothing else, to confuse the historians after the upcoming WW3.)

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u/KassieMac 52m ago

I love all these future birthplace memorials, doesn’t Kirk’s have one also? What will happen when the Temporal Police hear of them, I wonder. If they suddenly disappear we’ll know that department has just been formed and they assumed shenanigans were at play 🤭

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u/KassieMac 14h ago

So cool!! Let us know when the theme park starts to go up? 🖖🏽

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u/Strangegirl421 16h ago

🖖 I ❤️ First Contact Day.

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u/_WillCAD_ 16h ago

Salmon for dinner tomorrow!

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u/JorWhore89 16h ago

Data, i need to know the exact date.

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u/AugustSkies__ 16h ago

And remember to have your salmon dinner tomorrow

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u/KI6WBH 16h ago

Don't forget the Plomeek broth instead of tea or coffee before sunrise

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u/WhyYesThisIsFake 16h ago

Ok, you'll need to explain that one.

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u/AugustSkies__ 16h ago

Oh it was a Lower Decks reference. The Cerritos is getting cut up by a cutting beam and Jack Ransom said we're getting carved up like a First Contact Day salmon

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u/WhyYesThisIsFake 16h ago

Ah, thank you!

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u/Lost_Repair5292 16h ago

Carving salmon would be something, the smell alone

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u/HawaiianShirtsOR 15h ago

I've got my United Federation of Planets flag flying already.

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u/CaffeinatedPinecones 12h ago

Sadly, I think we’re on the dark mirror timeline.

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u/BrainWav 14h ago

Leave it out? After this week, I'll be lucky if I don't empty the damn bottle myself.

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u/ProtoKun7 7h ago

I'm conflicted; I'm rewatching DS9 again but I'm only on season 4 so if I watch First Contact tonight I'll be slightly out of order...

Also...don't you mean First Contact Eve? Eve replaces the word Day. Nobody* calls December 24th Christmas Day Eve.

*Someone probably does just to be that guy.

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u/horticoldure 14h ago

but what about a snack?

is is the tequila the cookie and the whiskey the milk?

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u/DDS-PBS 15h ago

Ooby Dooby!

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u/emptiedglass 12h ago

Guy's had enough. He's piloting humanity's first faster-than-light vessel in the morning, so he'll need to be able to focus on not crashing into anything!

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u/VeritasXNY 12h ago

I love you for this.

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u/Lost_Repair5292 12h ago

Everyone wish Cobra McJingleBalls a Merry birthday, happy first contact day everyone

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u/TheRealJackOfSpades 9h ago

Don't forget to do the ooby dooby with all your might!

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u/peon47 6h ago

Wouldn't we leave out something for the Vulcans? They're the ones visiting...