Star Trek: 8 Things You Didn't Know About The Eugenics Wars
1. The Eugenics Wars Were The First In An Escalating Series Of Wars
As shown in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, the Eugenics Wars turned out to be part of an era of ever increasing violence and civil unrest. It was followed by the Second Civil War which grew out of a series of protests against the U.S Government involving such divergent groups as Black Lives Matter, March For Our Lives, and Donald Trump supporters. Another factor, depicted in the Deep Space Nine episode Past Tense, included the civil unrest that followed the development of Sanctuary Districts as a response to homelessness.
A second Eugenics War followed the Second Civil War which ultimately escalated into World War III. The cataclysmic nuclear exchanges during the war led to the death of 30 percent of the population and the extinction of 600 thousand species of plants and animals. As depicted in the Star Trek: The Next Generation pilot episode Encounter at Farpoint, the post atomic horror that followed persisted into 2079.