Star Trek: 8 Things You Didn't Know About The Eugenics Wars
6. They May Have Been Largely Fought Covertly Rather Than Through Open War
In the Star Trek: Voyager episode Future’s End, the U.S.S Voyager traveled back in time to 1996. Although this was the year the Eugenics Wars ended, Voyager's crew didn't see any signs of warfare.
In Venice Beach, people pursued leisure activities such as roller skating, bicycling, and sunbathing. In the Hollywood Hills, Tuvok and Paris observed people enjoying the Griffith Observatory's exhibits and planetarium. In downtown, the crew witnessed well-dressed business people and shoppers.
The only signs of social strife the crew witnessed included homelessness and an encounter with members of a right-wing militia.
A possible reason for this was explored in the novel series Star Trek: The Eugenics Wars. These novels depicted the Eugenics Wars as a covert conflict similar to the earlier Cold War rather than open warfare.
However, Star Trek: Picard show runner Terry Matalas has suggested that Spock might have been wrong about the date. Matalas and the show's writers concluded that World War III's nuclear exchanges generated electromagnetic pulses that erased many electronic records. They reasoned that the Eugenics Wars were later in the 21st century. Star Trek: Prodigy writer and story editor Aaron Waltke has also suggested that the Temporal Cold War may have shifted the timeline.