#StarTrekEnterprise has an odd context.

It's humanity's first large warp capable starship, sent to explore the wider cosmos, and it basically encounters medieval Europe, where every alien race is in an uneasy standoff holding its own territory, and each already has a whole fleet of warp capable battleships - #Vulcans, #Klingons, Romulans, #Andorians, #Rigelians, Xindi, etc.

And yet with all the shenanigans Enterprise gets up to, no one ever overwhelms puny Earth. Weird🤔
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How would it have worked if humanity’s first contact had been with one of the other species?

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Gotta figure Earth got lucky with the Vulcans, cuz they could have been forced into some sort of vassal state status, or worse, been raided repeatedly (like, by the Orions).
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@kcarr2015 @Trek_Academy My theory is that Vulcan has spent 1500 years pacifying that region of space so they were the only ones Humans could make first contact with.

Unfortunately, Humans took that to mean the galaxy was a chill place and that's why Earth had no standing Navy and why Enterprise was so underpowered and poorly armed.

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@BarrieSuddery @kcarr2015 @Trek_Academy We know the Vulcans were already visiting Earth in the 1950s (in ENT “Carbon Creek”) and the 1970s (in PIC “Mercy”), so it’s safe to say Earth was in the Vulcan sphere of influence for some time.