10 Bizarre Star Trek Theories (That Might Be True)

10. The Eugenics Wars Were Affected By The Temporal Cold War

So when did the Eugenics Wars take place? If the TOS episode Space Seed is to be believed, then they happened in the 1990's, with Khan Noonian Singh apparently devastating India and China. Spock specifically says that they occurred around 200 years before the events of The Original Series. Later entries in the franchise would collate the Eugenics Wars with the Third World War, which according to Encounter At Farpoint, happened in the 2050's.

Several years later, the Deep Space Nine episode Doctor Bashir, I Presume? used exactly the same line from Space Seed, setting the Eugenics Wars 200 years before the events of Deep Space Nine. This means that there's apparently a 100 year time jump for the Eugenics Wars. Indeed, the Voyager two-parter Future's End was set in 1996 and the crew didn't happen to hear anything about a devastating world war that would have reshaped global society.

All of this could simply be writers not doing their homework... or could it be an indication that the timeline from Encounter at Farpoint onwards was somehow altered by the overriding narrative from Star Trek Enterprise? Could the machinations of an unknown enemy alien or even Starfleet's own temporal agents have stopped the Eugenics Wars from happening in their original location, delaying them by nearly a hundred years?

Perhaps.