If you haven’t heard of it, this island has a population that the world has collectively decided to leave alone, mostly because they have proven, on multiple occasions, that they absolutely do not want visitors. Like, arrow-to-death anyone attempting to land or even visit near their shores.
This probably cannot go on forever… but maybe, it could. Essentially, we are already implementing a ‘Prime Directive’ of sorts here. Would the 23rd, 24th, … centuries in Star Trek canon still have this little island on Earth, isolated from not just from Earth’s own unified Federation society, but from the greater Federation races? What steps would the Federation and Earth take to maintain their isolation and the ecosystem on which they depend?
Would make for an interesting episode, or at least a cool side-note reference in one :)
There is an episode of Voyager where Seven and Chakotay get stuck in a nature reserve which is populated by an uncontacted species of humanoid. This reserve is separated from the rest of the planet by a force field.
So i would say yes. The Federation would put up a shield and forbid people from entering.
But would it have it have remained left alone long enough to get to the point where the federation and prime directive protected it…
hell no, the Eugenics wars probably affected every square inch of the planet.
On Earth? Because they were supposed to like really far away.
I imagine that the events leading up to the formation of the Federation would disrupt their way of life. Most notably, WWIII, which most likely could wipe them out. Assuming they remain somehow untouched, the eventual visible air traffic might draw out the more curious among their population.
I’m pretty sure there’s visible air traffic there today. Veer Savarkar International Airport is only ~30 miles away from North Sentinel Island, so they probably see planes on a daily basis.
That island is safe but you just know Riker is going to touch everything on MILF Island.
Starfleet HQ, 5 minutes later:
I am getting off on milf island - Riker probably
Sadly it was funnier before it became a real thing. I guess it goes to show how smart 30 Rock’s writers are. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MILF_Manor
Yeah, it was funny on 30 Rock because it was an over-the-top trashy parody. When it became real, it’s just cringe.
Oh dear god, we live in the worst timeline.
Too late. Kirk already romanced one of the women and killed a man in ritual combat.
Somehow the Ferangi would manage to sell them photon torpedoes. They’d still fire at anyone who approached their island .
It’ll be a moot point, once the polar icecaps are melted.
Thanks for this, I hadn’t heard about them before.
I thought this was a good history, and I’m surprised no one has demanded storming the island by force or something stupider:
Edit: fixed link.
At least one idiot tried, and he got what he fucking deserved.
It’s ludicrous to describe a lone missionary as “storming the island by force”.
I agree that it was a foolish move on his part, though.
I’m aware he didn’t storm the island by force - I didn’t use those words. The implication was that he went where it was made abundantly clear he wasn’t wanted - more than once - and suffered the consequences.
The comment you responded to used those words, though.
I’m surprised no one has demanded storming the island by force
At least one idiot tried
Re-reading it, I suppose you meant to invoke “something stupider” which does make sense. Carry on!
Odd link to post, but okay.
Ah jeeze. They have one of those stupid setups where if you scroll far enough you get to the next article transparently. And it actually changes the URL. I’d gotten to the end of tbe article I meant to post, but when I copied the URL it was for the next article.
Fixed the link.
Lol, I figured it was something like that. 😂 But romantic relationship style link was good stuff, too!
