Happy 'First Contact' Day

[Fr8monkey]

OK, so apparently a bunch of Star Trek fans (dare I say "Trekkies"?) are celebrating "First Contact Day" today, in which we celebrate a fictional date IN THE FUTURE. In fact, it's now 51 years until the "real" First Contact Day. Confused? OK, let's rewind a bit.

In the movie "Star Trek: First Contact", it's established that April 5, 2063 is the day in which humans make first contact with Vulcans. In the movie, the evil Borg try to mess with that day so that they can then take over the planet, but luckily Jean-Luc Picard and the rest of the "Next Generation" crew are able to prevent that from happening, and then they re-establish the timeline by helping the humans achieve first contact day.


Link (http://www.itworld.com/virtualization/265282/happy-future-holiday-day-first-contact-day) :woot:

[vienna]

Is this so we can beat the "First Contact Day" rush?

I don't think I'll be able to make it; on that day in 2063, I'd be 112 years years old. Although, they do say "only the good die young" and, given my past, I may actually be immortal... :D

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[gimpy117]

you know...they're gonna wanna meet the man who flew that warp ship

[Rockstar]

http://redriverpak.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/cartman_probe.jpg




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[Torplexed]

you know...they're gonna wanna meet the man who flew that warp ship

Ol' Zefram Cochrane is already getting long in the tooth. I don't think he's gonna make First Contact Day.

http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120318014538/memoryalpha/en/images/thumb/d/d4/ZeframCochrane2063-2.jpg/292px-ZeframCochrane2063-2.jpg

What scares me is that these people write our software. :nope:

[gimpy117]

Ol' Zefram Cochrane is already getting long in the tooth. I don't think he's gonna make First Contact Day.

http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120318014538/memoryalpha/en/images/thumb/d/d4/ZeframCochrane2063-2.jpg/292px-ZeframCochrane2063-2.jpg

What scares me is that these people write our software. :nope:

Not if the Companion has anything to say about that!

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120318015413/memoryalpha/en/images/thumb/f/fb/ZeframCochrane2267.jpg/542px-ZeframCochrane2267.jpg

[Oberon]

Well...

I like to dream

Yeah

Right between my Sound machine

On a cloud of sound it drifts in the night

Any place it goes is right

Goes far, flies near

To the stars away from here...

[TLAM Strike]

Just goes to show even a skirt chasing alcoholic can change the world! :yeah:

[gimpy117]

he was also supposed to be bipolar

[AVGWarhawk]

Live long and perspire. It's hot out there....

[Betonov]

Well...

I like to dream

Yeah

Right between my Sound machine

On a cloud of sound it drifts in the night

Any place it goes is right

Goes far, flies near

To the stars away from here...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZJczZ6gbVU

[Oberon]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZJczZ6gbVU

One of my favourite scenes from the film :D

[Jimbuna]

"Perhaps today is a good day to die"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8pQm3h2opc&feature=related

[Oberon]

"Perhaps today is a good day to die"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8pQm3h2opc&feature=related

"Tough little ship..." "Little?!"