Helm Officer's Personal Log

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Helm Officer's Personal Log - ESD 2597 BCE

Cmdr Jami Farrington, MD

USS Manticore NCC 5852

 

Somehow, the Manticore has been thrown back 5000 standard Terran years, making the estimated stardate for this log 2597 Before the Common Era. Although I'm worried about getting back, I can't help wondering what effect we will have on history. Oh, I'm sure there will be some effect, even if it's very slight, and we have to be very careful not to pollute the timeline. Still, I've spent every spare minute looking into ancient Earth history, wondering if we are already a part of it.

 

One story, from the book of Genesis, says, "When men began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose." Is this our fate? Will be have to stay in this time, eventually intermarrying and modifying the human race?

 

The Epic of Gilgamesh says, " Who can compare with him in kingliness? Who can say like Gilgamesh: 'I am King!'? Whose name, from the day of his birth, was called 'Gilgamesh'? Two-thirds of him is god, one-third of him is human." Two-thirds is god? He is a great warrior, described in the epic as one would describe a Klingon. "Like a wild bull he makes himself mighty . . . there is no rival who can raise his weapon against him."

 

How very strange it seems. Are we about to become -- despite all our efforts to avoid it -- a part of our own history? Are we about to become our own ancestors?[/color]

Edited December 29, 2003 by Cmdr Jami Farrington