Star Trek Reveals A Better First Contact Sequel Than Enterprise

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admonition : Contains SPOILERS for Star Trek : Lower Decks Season 5 , Episode 9 - " crevice Quest"Star Trek : Lower Decksjust provided a better continuation toStar Trek : First Contactthan the one shown inStar Trek : enterprisingness . InStar Trek : First Contact , Captain Jean - Luc Picard ( Patrick Stewart ) and the USS Enterprise - E traveled back in time to stop the Borg from preventing humanity ’s First Contact with the Vulcans . In the past , Picard and his crew encountered Zefram Cochrane ( James Cromwell ) andLily Sloane ( Alfre Woodard)as they prepared the Phoenix for Earth ’s first manned warp flight . In the last , Picard and his crew thwart the Borg and assure that First Contact take place as it was meant to .

In its last season on Paramount+,Star Trek : Lower Decksseason 5sends the USS Cerritos on a mission to enquire the cause ofa serial of quantum scissure that have open up across the galaxy . Star Trek : Lower Decksseason 5 , episode 9 , " Fissure Quest , " reveals that segment 31 ’s Captain William Boimler ( Jack Quaid ) and his crew of alternating universeStar Treklegacy charactershave also been searching for the cause of these rifts . After being captured by"feral Khwopians,“Captain Boimler and his crew let on that an alt world Captain Lily Sloane has inadvertently been causing the wormhole to the multiverse .

Star Trek: Lower Decks Reveals An Alternate Universe That Was A Better First Contact Sequel Than Enterprise

Lower Decks Reveals One Lily Sloane Became A Multidimensional Explorer

While Captain Boimler initially assumes that Captain Sloane must be"a depraved villain,“Lily assures him that she and her crowd are on a mission of peace treaty . In her creation , Lily Sloane helped Zefram Cochrane develop a Quantum Reality Drive that can travel throughout the multiverse . Sloane was completely unaware that her ship had been leave excess rifts undefendable with each realism jump , and she quickly apologize for the trouble she has caused . Sloane then facilitate Boimler and his gang return to their ship , the Anaximander , before her own ship is destroy by a rogue Lieutenant Harry Kim ( Garrett Wang ) .

Setting up its season 5 finale , Star Trek : Lower Decks goes big by bring back characters from DS9 , Voyager , enterprisingness , and First Contact .

After building the Quantum Reality Drive with Zefram Cochrane , this version of Lily Sloane became a Starfleet captain tasked with exploring the multiverse . In the version of events seen inStar Trek : Enterpriseseason 4 ’s " In a Mirror , Darkly,“Zefram Cochrane kills the Vulcans who lead up First Contact . Enterprise’sbrief scene of the world raid the Vulcan ’s ship does not even cite Lily Sloane . blue Deckspresents a better ( and much moreStar Trek ) choice for what happened after the events ofStar Trek : First Contactand givesLily Sloane the chance to be an explorerand a hero .

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Enterprise’s First Contact Sequel Created Star Trek’s Mirror Universe

Zefram Cochrane Jumpstarted The Federation In One Universe & The Terran Empire In The Other

Star Trek : Enterpriseseason 4 , episode 18 , " In a Mirror , Darkly " bring out that First Contact in the Mirror Universe run short quite a second other than than it did in the Prime Universe . Zefram Cochrane was still the first human to reach warp flight of stairs , but rather than greet the Vulcans warmly when they made first link , Mirror Cochrane shoot down them with a shotgun . Humanity then used the steal Vulcan technology to spread into the Galax urceolata , expanding the Terran Empire . Cochrane ’s military action effectively created the Mirror Universe , which has popped up throughout variousStar Trekseries .

Captain Lily Sloane ’s Quantum Reality - jumping starship is call the Beagle .

Star Trek’sMirror Universepresents a much dark rendering of Starfleet , where the Terran Empire conquers other planets rather than work confederation with them . Lower Decksalso present a different kind of Federation , but one whose master purpose is still exploration . In the Prime Universe and the one present inStar Trek : Lower Decks , Zefram Cochrane and Lily Sloane ’s activity assist play people together and expand world ’s cognition . This is a much more satisfyingStar Trekstory than one that lead to a universe plagued by murder and subjugation .